Ingram’s Business Magazine’s Construction and Development Quarterly Report. Luke Draily Construction weighs in with KC’s area top construction professionals. In an era of low margins but ample work, contractors in the Kansas City region are hustling more today than any time since the onset of the Great Recession nearly 15 years ago. But they do so amid sweeping change in the demographics of the work force (and skill sets of those workers), in technology and tools to improve productivity, and with increasing demands for shorter delivery cycles—all the while pressured by material costs and other factors.