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There’s a problem in our industry right now. We don’t have the labor or skilled force to do the work. What we need to do is start reaching out to kids, to youth programs, to education systems, and help get out the message: YOU DON’T HAVE TO GO TO COLLEGE. Consider a career in construction. We’r...

NEW ORLEANS — Each year in September, the mission of the Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention (CIASP) is to promote suicide awareness and prevention by helping construction industry businesses and affiliates use their tools and resources as a way of integrating suicide preventi...

By Sarah Busch Since 2020, with the onset of COVID-19 and its effects on manpower availability, the world has seen an upheaval in production across every industry, resulting in vast shortages and delays in the availability of goods and services. Add to this two years of COVID variants, extreme ...

By Taylor Gilliam & Michelle Carbajal Since the company’s founding over 65 years ago, and even more so under the leadership of third-generation CEO Anne Teague, Landis has been committed to increasing diversity and representation in our industry. As an officially certified Women’s Business E...

By Taylor Gilliam & Cathy Gathman Since the company’s founding over 65 years ago, and even more so under the leadership of third-generation CEO Anne Teague, Landis has been committed to increasing diversity and representation in our industry. As an officially certified Women’s Business Enter...

By Taylor Gilliam & Lauren Thibodeaux Since the company’s founding over 65 years ago, and even more so under the leadership of third-generation CEO Anne Teague, Landis has been committed to increasing diversity and representation in our industry. As an officially certified Women’s Business E...

By Tom Weathers, Landis Construction Co., LLC; Director of Purchasing & Systems Innovation — 2022 LCI Congress ChairOriginally published on www.lcicongress.org Learn by Doing, From Those Who Do This seemingly simple tagline is a highly effective approach for driving professional growth. It’s...

Now, more than ever, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, all companies are tasked with re-thinking how they approach keeping their employees, partners, and communities safe. This National Safety Month, celebrated across the country throughout the month of June, it’s extremely important for lo...

When Hollygrove resident LaVerne Pinkney’s house was nearly destroyed by a fire on New Year’s Eve, she worried that without any homeowner’s insurance to cover costs, she would never be able to afford the necessary repairs to remain in her family home of 54 years. With this tragedy happening to on...

While “bettering the surrounding community in which we live” has served as one of Landis's guiding principles since its founding in 1956, this year, the company took a significant step forward by entering into a formal Mentor-Protégé Agreement with local DBE firm Legacy Restoration and Referral, ...

Before Katrina, I was still working part-time at Landis as an Assistant Project Manager following the birth of my first son in May of 2004. With the advent of Katrina, I returned to full-time work and immediately began focusing on the Xavier University campus renovation.  Dr. Norman C. Fr...

By Tom Weathers and Jeremy Atkinson Lean awareness and implementation is growing, which is great news for the design and construction industry. Lean strategies have been around for decades and continue to evolve as a framework for better collaboration and communication throughout the life of a b...