March will mark one year since the first construction job site shutdowns. A lot has happened since then, yet the initial concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on construction are still top of mind.
In a recent survey conducted during the ENR BuildTech pre-event webinar, “Building Through a Pandemic,” attendees were asked, “Back in March 2020, when the first shutdowns and shelter in place orders were issued in the U.S., what was your mindset at the time?” While 7% responded with “panic, an immediate need to perform triage to keep projects going,” 82% said they had “uncertainty, but expected to cope with the developing situation.” Another 10% responded that they were “already prepared for disruption and were ready to transition to new ways of working.”