EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT


Involvement Translates into Opportunity for Unger’s Will Lenhart


By Carol Eaton


Construction Company in Sacramento, AGC has already played a pivotal role shaping his understanding of the construction industry and the impor- tance of staying involved.


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lthough Will Lenhart is just starting out his profes- sional career with Unger


Lenhart joined AGC’s Chico State


Student Chapter as a freshman in the construction management program. His sister, Amanda, was then a junior in the same program and also an active AGC student chapter member. Tey both participated in the student chapter’s 2012 Blitz Build project, helping residents of Joplin MO to rebuild after a tornado devastated that


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companies – and all have become active in the AGC Construction Leadership Council (CLC). I hope that after you read their


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updates, the next time you ask yourself “what is the return on this investment in supporting this AGC or AGC CEF workforce development program” or “why should the company invest in sending our young project engineers to AGC events or Conferences,” you’ll think about Will, Mercy and Hadi – and the hundreds of young people like them that AGC CEF provides professional development, training and scholarship assistance to every year. With support and participation from companies like yours, AGC and CEF workforce development programs and the CLC are building the next generation of construction industry leadership – young and skilled leadership that your company is going to need in short order. Tat is your return. 


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town the year prior. It didn’t


take long for Will Lenhart to determine that construction was the right field for him. “Te excitement and variety that the construction field had to offer got me hooked,” he says. Involvement in the student chapter


offered some big benefits during college, Lenhart notes. “AGC gave me the chance to learn leadership skills, get hands-on construction experience and tour a variety of construction projects all around California. It gave me opportunities to network


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