Bridging construction and engineering generation gap

A torch-passing phase is on the horizon within the nation’s construction and engineering industries. The 30-and-younger set is in line to begin replacing significant numbers of retirement-age construction managers and engineers.

Industry watchers are wondering how well the transfer of wisdom and know-how will go between members of a generation  who began careers in the days before personal computers and cell phones and a younger generation that has grown up in the age of the Internet and the dawn of social media.

Professor William Badger and associate professor Avi Wiezel with ASU’s Del E. Webb School of Construction weigh in on cross-generational communication challenges in a report by a leading construction and engineering industry news publication.