Getting To the Top Just Got a Little Easier!

You've just begun your career in the most vibrant, active, and exciting industry left on the planet. You build.

To reach the top, you must make the climb, building your own career while you are building projects and building your company.

YCF was designed for you.

YCF - Young Constructors Forum - Developing Future Leaders

The YCF functions as a forum in which anyone can network, socialize, and exchange ideas on issues facing mid-career construction professionals. The YCF is open to all interested members without the need of a formal appointment process. To ensure direction and focus, the YCF has a steering committee, a chair and vice chair. The steering committee membership rotates on a regular three-year basis, taking into account geographic and industry issues.

Most, if not all, successful contractors today started with fewer resources than you. And, although they faced challenges that scared the beegeebies out of them, they realized the tremendous opportunities of the industry. You have no less challenge, but you have greater opportunities than they could have imagined. The resources you have at your disposal are far greater than any generation before you. Fortunately for the strong, it doesn't come easy. YCF however, can help you find and exploit the resources to climb to the top. There is increasing room for a few strong individuals like you. They share their resources and cooperatively find new ones. Because they are organized and recognized, they can attract the attention of those that came before, their major resource.

YCF is nearly totally independent. They decide their own pace and their own agenda. They are a "council" of the Associated General Contractors, but members are not required to join AGC. Their agenda is dictated by the desires of the members. Usually, they meet on a regular basis, often monthly, at a relaxed, informal setting, with informative speakers, often successful contractors who not only impart their own success stories, but set benchmarks and guideposts for the YCF members around a prescribed topic. These topics may include:

• Contractor Business Practices and Pitfalls
• Developing a Contracting Business Niche
• Working with Government Owners
• Working with Subs and Suppliers
• Watching the Bottom Line
• Prospecting, Diversifying
• Forecasting, Technological Advances
• Exploiting Opportunities, and the Future of the Business

You can't always get this information at a university or even on the job.

Our Mission

• To assist its construction professional members in attaining the tools to excel in the industry.
• To be an open forum for an exchange of ideas.
• To be an entry vehicle into AGC promoting member involvement.
• To foster strong networks between members.
• To create and promote industry innovation.
• To discuss crucial issues within the industry and how they relate to the up and coming professionals. 
• To involve members in the community, fostering a positive image of the construction industry to society's institutions.
• Provide the leadership for the industry into the 21st century.