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Glance around the Phoenix market and you see construction is booming.
Big projects are underway in all parts of the Valley as the current building boom rolls on. While it seems there is nothing holding back this flow of commercial construction projects, there is one factor that could dam up the river.
“According to research that NCCER (the National Center for Construction Education & Research) did, the projection is that by 2020, we’ll be 2 million people short in construction professionals,” said Dan Haag, senior vice president and chief administrative officer for Sundt Construction. “Can we fill those openings with current population? Probably not. We need an influx of people. But we also need to improve the education programs for folks to go into.”
