We have a severe labor shortage in our industry when it
comes to glaziers. I don’t think I am
telling anyone anything new there. It
feels like every company, big and small are looking for folks to install. But we also have a severe shortage in another
part of our world. Project
Managers. It is mind blowing to me how
many companies are looking for PM’s right now.
In fact I would say the need for Project Managers might be surpassing
that of the need for glaziers. I believe
this to be the case because companies are adapting to their field labor
shortages with doing different maneuvers, whether its buying installation
equipment (everything on the floor at GlassBuild America last year sold out) or
pushing with more unitized systems or some other approach, people are making
things work. On the Project Management
side, its not that easy and the solutions are not at the forefront at
least. Eventually this industry has to
address these issues because it’s only getting worse…
Elsewhere…
-- Good news out of the Associated Builders and Contractors
Construction Backlog Index this week… the backlog has hit a post recession
high… and its also tracking almost 4% better than this time a year ago. I also believe that the weather related slow
start to 2014 (starts in January were dreadful) will eventually result in a
mini boom thanks to delays and pent up demand.
Staying positive here…
-- Speaking of positive, a few weeks ago dynamic glass
manufacturer View was featured in a Fox Business Channel report. This was a really nice piece that put not
only View, and the dynamic glass world in a great light but our industry as a
whole as well. Getting solid traditional
media coverage is crucial to our messaging of innovation. Congrats to the team at View on getting this
one.
-- The celebrity keynote speaker at BEC next month is Ron
Jaworski. This week he made news when he
said heralded quarterback Johnny Manziel would not get picked in the first
three rounds of the NFL draft if HE, Jaworski was making the choice. The reason this is news is most experts think
Manziel may be one of the first few players picked OVERALL. Jaworski is known for making newsmaking
statements, so I am wondering if at BEC he will do the same… I could see him saying,
“Low E Glass is the past… I’m going with something else…” or “No aluminum for
me… only Vinyl for my curtain walls” and our world would go crazy…
-- How good of a business is a New York City cab? This week there was an auction for 168
licenses to run a cab in NYC. The low
bid was 650K… the high was 965K… for ONE cab.
That just blows my mind. Not
being from New York or knowing the city that well I had no idea that a million
dollar investment into a cab is a good one.
That is craziness….
-- Last this week… can someone tell Mother Nature we’ve had
enough? What a winter this has
been. And supposedly forecasts are
calling for a cooler than normal spring and summer… I joked on twitter that this winter is like
what the folks in Minnesota experience every year, and my pal Garret Henson
from Viracon noted it’s even a bad one for them too being 4th
coldest on record there. Now when its
even stupid cold in Minnesota, you KNOW it’s a bad winter!!
LINKS of the WEEK
Justin Bieber did not like the bet of whoever lost the
Olympic Hockey game gets to keep him… why would he even care?
A spelling bee that ran out of words… C-R-A-Z-Y!
VIDEO of the WEEK
Thank you to my friend Shelly Farmer for this one… evidently
the Jetsons floating cars do exist…in some way out there… wild stuff!!
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