COVID-19 disruption and fallout—from distanced, isolated staff and no-touch business development to lost revenue and lingering market uncertainty—have many in the construction sector longing for their pre-pandemic existence.
Precautions and vaccines are accelerating the return to some degree for firms, owners and other AEC participants, but there’s a growing sense that workplace adaptations forced by the coronavirus are innovations long needed and here to stay. “A lot of it was there but not adopted,” Danielle Dy Buncio, CEO of virtual design consultant VIATechnik told attendees of ENR's Top Young Professionals conference in February.