Associated Builders and Contractors, San Diego Chapter

One fine can cost more than an entire project made you.

Register for the "Crush It!" Penalty-Prevention Seminar — a two-day session led by Michael McCoy, VP of Legal and Compliance at Public Works Compliance Advisors, designed to keep your business protected and your projects compliant.

Built around a real DIR Investigation and Civil Wage and Penalty Assessment, this is expert-led instruction covering what contractors actually need to know:

🎯 How investigations start and why contractors get targeted
⚠️ What project managers do that trigger fines
💸 The real cost of worker misclassification
📋 PLA, PSA, HUD Section 3, AB 2143, IRA prevailing wage, and LCP compliance

Lunch is provided. Bring your laptop.

👉 Register: https://workforce.flashpoint.xyz/Lite/Event/Profile/1258720001

Public policy doesn't feel like a construction issue. Until it is.

👉 Watch it now: https://youtu.be/stdpSFDIJKE

In this episode of Coastlines to Cranes, Shandon Harbour sits down with Mark Kersey, President & CEO of the Diego County Taxpayers Association and former San Diego City Councilmember, to talk about how tax measures, bond measures, and local budget decisions shape the future of construction and business in San Diego.

If public spending affects infrastructure, project delivery, and your bottom line, this conversation is worth your time.

🎧Listen to Coastlines to Cranes on Spotify and Apple Podcast

Before the hard hat, the tools, and the job site...there's a phone call. And Lelani is the one who answers it.

As Admissions Coordinator at ABC San Diego, she's often the first voice a new applicant hears. She walks them through the process, connects contractors with apprentices, and makes sure no one falls through the cracks between interest and opportunity.

She sees people at the beginning — before they know what they're capable of — and she stays close enough to watch their journey unfold.

What happens in her office ripples outward into jobsites, households, and the fabric of our city.

Every day, in a role that most people never see, Lelani is building San Diego one admission at a time.

Since the filming of this reel, Leilani has been promoted to Admissions Specialist. Congratulations, Leilani! 🎉

Supporting our community goes beyond the jobsite. We are proud to show up for the families who need it most through organizations like .

What does "affordable housing" actually mean in San Diego — and why is it so hard to build?

👉 Watch here: https://youtu.be/ACkZR9Yf5LU

In this episode of Coastlines to Cranes, Shandon Harbour sits down with Aimee Faucett, President & CEO of the BIA San Diego, to talk about the real cost drivers behind housing in this market: fees, permitting, labor, materials, and the policy decisions that shape what gets built.

Aimee pulls back the curtain on how large the housing industry really is and why that matters for contractors, trades, and suppliers across San Diego.

A new episode of Coastlines to Cranes is out every Wednesday on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

First-year electrical students at ABC San Diego start with the physics behind electrical generation, right down to the atom.

Obie went through the full four-year program, and when ABC SD put out the call for instructors, he didn’t hesitate! Now he's the one teaching the science behind the work, from how current moves at its source all the way to navigating the National Electrical Code (NEC) in the field.

This is a school. The kind where credentials are real, science is rigorous, and a career is waiting on the other side.

Obie found his way here the same way a lot of people do — life called for it. When he got married and started thinking seriously about providing for his family, people he trusted pointed him toward electrical and told him it was the right move. He hasn't looked back since.

Now he shows up for his students the same way people once showed up for him.