About Us
About Us
Based in Florida, the Construction platform LLC began as a small-scale project to help contractors network with trade specific individuals and organizations. The working concepts that were patentable, highly unique and valuable to the construction industry then expanded into a large-scale development in 2022.
With an established network and knowledge of the east coast, The Construction Platform developed a team of engineers, design specialists, researchers, and advertising professionals to create the first construction industry social networking platform.
The Construction Platform focuses on building networks and relationships, while providing opportunity. We know networking and connecting have the power to change and develop your success. The construction platform provides you the opportunity to do business, develop pipelines, gain more revenue, and ultimately have happier customers from a proper functioning supply chain of labor and materials.
The construction platform is based on a simple premise to build a network from a website to jobsite. We developed proprietary databases and patent pending technology to smooth and quicken the process of interacting with professionals and getting the job done.
With technical expertise and years of contracting knowledge, knowing what’s broken, and what needed to change, we developed a connection platform that provides opportunity for connecting tradesmen, contractors, professional organizations, and vendors to streamline building relationships, bridging the labor shortage gap and procuring materials to get work done.
- 2022 year founded
- Amount of venture capital (ZERO)
- # of states served (50)
- Trades included (36 and growing)
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The construction platform recognizes that we are going through a paradigm shift in the construction industry. We are moving from a world where companies control the process, to one in which a network is digitally enhanced and the buyer is in control. This is truer today that at any time in the past.
Leading from the front/get to know our leadership team, some of the best and brightest in the industry. They will deny their leaders, refused to take any credit for anything and say” it’s the team” or “it’s the people” or “you make that happen” which is why they are really great to work with. And for construction guys they clean up pretty good!
JOSEPH L RUSSO
CEO-Founder
Joe Russo brings over three decades of experience from the construction industry, known for creating hyper growth production teams in the electrical contracting segment, Joe is an entrepreneur, investor, contractor and networking professional. With professional connections to major organizations throughout North America, Joe brings expertise to the construction industry on many levels.
Joe’s vision and ultimate goal is to narrow the gap between white-collar and blue-collar careers, by bridging the wage gap and providing more opportunities, while giving construction industry professionals the tools to do so, and bringing a career in the trades back into the mainstream through technology for the next generation.
MICHAEL KNIGHT Ph.D.
Co-founder and Strategic partner
Dr. Michael Knight is the cofounder and strategic partner of construction platform. A serial entrepreneur, business advisor, consultant, and twice tenured professor of strategy, Dr. Knight has taught and networked at the graduate and doctoral level throughout the academic & business world. He has published numerous articles and been cited in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post related to strategy and survival of organizations.
