Trends in construction site technical manpower change and ways to secure it
Publication Date 2025-07-14
Researchers Yoo-Kyung Sung , Hee-Dae Park, Soo-Young Choe
The construction industry's workforce structure and technology environment are changing differently from the past, and in this study, the construction industry's technical manpower problem was approached as a long-term task to respond to changes in the industrial structure and future environment, not a short-term labor supply and demand imbalance.
Therefore, this study established a strategy to secure construction talent to lead the future amid changes in the construction industry, and derived an implementation task to secure technical manpower in the construction site. The detailed objectives of this study are as follows.
First, it understands the actual condition of technical manpower in construction sites. The current status of the manpower shortage that is continuously raised in the industry is confirmed in detail, and in particular, it investigates areas where the shortage of technical manpower in construction sites is intensifying.
Second, it analyzes various factors that may affect the future construction site technical manpower problem. In addition to the poor working conditions that have been mainly pointed out, understand the background that has caused the shortage of manpower.
Third, in order to solve the problem of technical manpower in construction sites, we propose an implementation task that the construction industry can take the lead in. Through this, it is intended to reduce dependence on government policies and create a manpower ecosystem that prepares the future of the construction industry with the industry as the center.
- This study conducted the following analysis to derive strategies and execution tasks.
Through the analysis of existing research (Chapter 2) and the analysis of future issues (Chapter 3), the factors affecting the current status of technical personnel at construction sites were analyzed.
Quantitative analysis was performed through the supply and demand analysis of construction technical personnel (Chapter 4) and the actual condition survey of technical personnel at construction sites (Chapter 5).
Other industries' responses to future issues (Chapter 3) and major foreign countries' responses (Chapter 6) were investigated, and through this, strategies for securing construction talent and implementation tasks (Chapter 7) for securing technical personnel at construction sites were presented.