March 5, 2019

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NEWARK – it appears wherever you go in Licking County, the thing is scaffolding, cranes, dump vehicles, bricks, lumber and many hectic employees at a construction site.

Commercial and residential building jobs totaled $168 million in the 1st 1 / 2 of the season, according to the Licking County Building Code Department.

That’s a 240 percent boost from 2015 and a 121 % enhance set alongside the average associated with last seven years.

Based on EMSI Analyst data for Columbus 2020, Licking County employed 3, 082 individuals within the building industry in 2016, and there have been 324 construction organizations inside county in 2015. The job enhance since 2010 is 25 %.

Robertson Construction, Jerry McClain business, Claggett and Sons, CS Construction, along with other businesses from Licking County, adjacent counties, and beyond, work on government buildings, schools, manufacturing services, shops, other businesses and new domiciles or improvements.

“It’s a good time to be in construction, ” stated Chad Shumaker, of CS Construction. “We remained busy and weathered the (recession) storm. We’ve already been wanting to include people, subcontractors and full time.”

Construction could be the number 1 development sector for tasks since January 2011 inside 10-county Columbus area, in line with the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services. The 21.8 % boost in jobs topped the 11 sectors sized.

Robertson Construction’s directory of tasks within the last two years includes the Licking County Courthouse task which might achieve $10 million, a $19 million elementary college in Johnstown, an $8 million medical business building for Licking Memorial Hospital, a $2.8 million addition for Velvet Ice Cream, a $1.5 million human body store inclusion and detail shop for JLH Realty, in Heath, and a $1.2 million speculative building the Port Authority.

Robertson has about 130 full time and about 15 seasonal workers from Licking and surrounding counties. The business has actually projects in Franklin County, London, Marion and Oxford, Ohio.

“It’s that constant challenge never to distribute yourself too thin, ” Christian Robertson stated. “We work all over the state of Ohio and western Virginia.”

Robertson has actually numerous lasting customers, and pursues extra work.

“We do anything to satisfy and satisfy the needs of these customers, ” Robertson stated. “We look at additional work which are perhaps either community agencies or potentially new customers.”

CS Construction, of Newark, simply completed an inside remodel in the Licking County wellness Department and an innovative new building entry at Boeing in Heath. It offers done benefit Licking Memorial Hospital and Trillium Farms in Croton.

The company has 11 employees on staff and on a regular basis makes use of 50 subcontractors.

“We’ve already been pretty steady year ’round, ” Shumaker stated. “Obviously, it will peak during summer time. We stay quite busy.”

Shumaker said their company employs students from construction program at Career and Technology Centers of Licking County.

“Construction is good-paying, if you’re skilled, ” Shumaker said. “We’re shopping for various types of skilled investments. When you have an art and craft and are usually happy to find out, it can be a great (work). If they’re young, we’d encourage them to go that path.”

Jerry McClain stated his company utilizes subcontractors for all of their construction work. In the past, his company employed 22 carpenters, but times have changed.