Construction Blog

Three firms dominate construction executive search in the United States for different reasons, and the right one depends entirely on what you are filling. Kaye/Bassman has run the most searches. Amundson Group is the fastest on paper. The Birmingham Group has done it the longest. None of that helps unless you know [...]

Handing one construction search to four firms does not multiply your reach. It splits it, and the strongest candidates are the first to walk away. Here is why that happens, and what it costs you when it does. Written by The Birmingham Group recruiting team. TBG has placed construction leaders at the [...]

Education construction runs against an immovable academic calendar. Learn why K-12 and higher-ed PM searches demand different experience—and why contractors should begin hiring months before summer work starts.

Concrete Superintendent Jobs: What They Pay in 2026 and How to Get One Concrete superintendents who run self-perform structural work earn roughly $80,000 to $130,000 a year, based on what TBG sees in active searches. Public salary sites show a lower blended average, about $68,000 at Salary.com and $74,000 at ZipRecruiter, because [...]

Multi-Family and Senior Living Construction Project Manager Hiring: Why Operator Pressure Changes the Search A residential project manager can hit every number you set and still hand you a building you cannot open. That sounds wrong until you have lived it on a senior living job. The schedule held. The budget held. [...]

Infrastructure Construction Demand in 2026: Where Durable Work Still Lives Most contractors spent the first half of 2026 watching the private market wobble. Office starts stalled outside of data centers. Retail and lodging went negative. Higher education turned down for the first time in years. If you only read the headlines, you [...]

Hiring a wastewater or heavy civil project manager is not a commercial search with a new sector label. It only looks like one on the resume. The job is not run on your schedule. It is run on the owner's. On commercial work, the general contractor sets much of the pace. You [...]

The manufacturing construction wave cooled. Your hiring risk did not. Census Bureau data tracked by the St. Louis Fed shows manufacturing construction spending peaked near a $240 billion annual rate in 2024, then cooled through 2025 and into 2026, while still running at more than double its early-2021 level. Read those two [...]

Construction project manager salary in Texas runs from $93,000 at the project engineer level to $217,230 and above for project executives, based on the Southwest regional tables of TBG's 2026 Construction Salary Survey. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics puts the median for construction managers in Texas at $101,470 (May 2025), with [...]

Construction Safety Director Salary 2026: What the Role Really Pays The construction safety director salary range in 2026 runs from $115,000 to $210,000+, depending on experience, sector, and company size. In the construction safety searches TBG works, mid-career directors at general contractors typically land between $115K and $155K, senior directors overseeing multi-region [...]

The salary for a data center construction superintendent has moved well above standard commercial pay. Hyperscalers including Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Oracle are spending at record levels on data center infrastructure in 2026, that capital is moving into the ground fast, and the field leaders who can execute mission-critical builds without [...]

Hiring a construction estimator is one of the highest-leverage decisions a contractor makes. A skilled estimator wins work at the right margin. A weak one either leaves money on the table or wins jobs that bleed out in the field. Either way, the cost shows up fast. This guide covers what to [...]

The construction project manager is the person who determines whether a job runs or bleeds. They own the schedule, the budget, the owner relationship, and the subcontractor coordination from award to closeout. A great PM turns a good backlog into strong margins. A weak one turns a good backlog into a nightmare. [...]