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title: Construction Industry Workforce Partnership
description: The Maine Community College System is building Maine's construction workforce with industry, employers, educators, trade associations, and state agencies.
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# Building Maine's Workforce Together

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# Construction Industry Workforce Partnership

## Building the Workforce Together

Launched in March 2025, the **Construction Industry Workforce Partnership** represents a collaborative effort between the Maine Community College System’s  Harold Alfond Center for the Advancement of Maine’s Workforce and more than 50 partners –residential, commercial, industrial, and specialty contractors; union and trade associations; Maine's community colleges, and statewide education and workforce partners.  Together, they are addressing Maine's skilled trades labor shortage through innovative, industry-led training programs that directly respond to the needs of the construction industry.  

 

The partnership established a steering committee and three action teams with new or enhanced programs launching this fall or early in 2026 in carpentry, HVAC, and equipment operators.   

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## Thank You to Our Partners

We are deeply grateful to the many construction companies, trade associations, union representatives, community colleges, and education and workforce organizations that are working alongside us to create opportunity for Maine people and ensure a strong future for the industry.

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[![Home Builders and remodelers](https://alfondcenter.mccs.me.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Home%20Builders%20and%20remodelers.jpg?width=421&height=200&name=Home%20Builders%20and%20remodelers.jpg "Home Builders and remodelers")](https://alfondcenter.mccs.me.edu/?hsLang=en)

[![ACE Construction](https://alfondcenter.mccs.me.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/ACE%20Construction.png?width=200&height=200&name=ACE%20Construction.png "ACE Construction")](https://alfondcenter.mccs.me.edu/?hsLang=en)

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[![CPM Constructors](https://alfondcenter.mccs.me.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/CPM%20Constructors.jpg?width=222&height=200&name=CPM%20Constructors.jpg "CPM Constructors")](https://alfondcenter.mccs.me.edu/?hsLang=en)

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[![Great-Falls-Construction\_logo](https://alfondcenter.mccs.me.edu/hs-fs/hubfs/Great-Falls-Construction_logo.png?width=422&height=200&name=Great-Falls-Construction_logo.png "Great-Falls-Construction_logo")](https://alfondcenter.mccs.me.edu/?hsLang=en)

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## Want more information?

Learn how you can get involved in the Construction Industry Workforce Partnership

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[Email Liz Love, Director of Sector Partnerships](mailto:elove@mainecc.edu)

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The Harold Alfond Center for the Advancement of Maine’s Workforce coordinates all short-term workforce training programs for Maine’s community colleges, working closely with business and industry leaders statewide. Launched in 2021, the Alfond Center served over 26,000 Mainers in thirty months. A new, historic gift of $75.5 million from the Harold Alfond Foundation in June 2024 will enable the Center to train an additional 70,505 Mainers by 2030, significantly impacting Maine’s workforce and economy through strategic private and public partnerships.

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