Archive for May 31, 2011
Residential Construction Projects
When the housing crisis hit they went from hundreds to only building 10 homes in 2010. This of course left them to the only course of action to save their business and that was to lay off over 80% of their staff. When these layoffs occur, you have many people out of work. When you have people from the construction industry out of work, they typically try to stay within the industry somehow.
Therefore, what you end up with is possibly a construction engineer job being taken by a person who used to manage a job site. In addition, you will have a site electricians position being applied for by a plumber. It is not uncommon for people to switch trades when jobs are scarce. Residential construction projects include houses, townhouses, apartments, condominiums, cottages, single unit dwellings and subdivisions. The housing designs are generally done by architects and engineers and the construction is executed by builders who hire subcontractors for structural, electrical, mechanical and other specialty work.