A VERY WARM welcome to the March edition of Construction Global magazine . This month our front cover story looks at how to attract the next generation of talent to the construction sector . This new wave of individuals are called generation z and they will be needing to plug the upcoming skills shortage that is threatening to happen when the aging 19 percent of the construction workforce retire in the next decade .

We also tell you about businessfriend , which is a new platform that can help you build valuable connections while consolidating all your existing apps and documents in one easy to use interface .

Last but not least the Top 10 industry trends are covered for 2015 in our third front of book feature .

Editor sam . jermy @ wdmgroup . com

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