People Above All Else
GOING BEYOND WHAT’S EXPECTED
Clayco has built the most comprehensive diversity and inclusion program in the industry – Clayco Rising. It is designed to create meaningful opportunity for our employees, our minority and women-owned business partners and people within the communities we serve. Together, we are breaking through barriers of income, race, sexual orientation and gender. We will rise above to bring positive change within our industry by building a diverse, respectful and safe workplace for all.
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Led by our mantra, “Beyond These Walls,” Clayco has aligned our internal diversity and inclusion initiatives with the various government and community organizations nationwide to gain their support in removing any barriers to achieving the goals we have for our industry, i.e., making impactful improvements in the diversity of talent employed in the design and construction industry and the diversity of design and construction firms locally and nationwide. For example, increasing diversity in our trade community is one of Clayco’s core tenets.
Where The industry stands
6%
15%
46%
People who identify as black or African American are 12% of the U.S. workforce but only 6% of the construction workforce
Women are 47% of the U.S. workforce but only 10.9% of the construction workforce. Women make up just 3% of the craft workforce.
46% of LGBTQ+ workers are closeted at work
*Stats from Culture of Care and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
How we're Encouraging growth
We were the first to introduce a diversity and inclusion program in the industry over 25 years ago, and today Clayco Rising is truly recognized as the model for the future. This program will not only increase the diversity of talent within our organization, but also will increase the diversity of talent employed throughout the design and construction industries.
Led by our “Beyond These Walls” mantra, Clayco has aligned itsinternal diversity and inclusion initiatives with the various government and community organizations nationwide to solicit their support in removing any barriers to our success in achieving the goals we have for our industry, i.e. making impactful improvements in the diversity of talent employed in the design and construction industry and the diversity of design and construction firms locally and nationwide. Building capacity of our diverse trade community is a core tenant of Clayco’s.
Where Clayco stands
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People who identify as black or African American are 12% of the U.S. workforce but only 6% of the construction workforce
Women are 47% of the U.S. workforce but only 9% of the construction workforce. Women make up just 3% of the craft workforce.
Clayco is working with industry leaders and within our communities to bring diversity to the construction workforce.
2021 Construction Inclusion Week
This inaugural Construction Inclusion Week, Clayco Rising is celebrating our strides toward improving diversity, equity, and inclusion in real estate, architecture, engineering, design-build, and construction. In the past year we have seen improvement in percentages of ethnicity and gender within our supply chain and our employee base and we've also invested in organizations that remove barriers.
Visit us again for Clayco Rising's first anniversary in December for our full annual stats.
Awarded to diverse firms
Investments in barrier reducing initiatives
MBE/WBE Strategic Relationships & Office and Field Diversity
30%
Latinx made up 30% of the U.S. construction workforce. A total 18.9% of the United States population is of Latinx origin.
