With COVID-19 likely to influence the business environment for the foreseeable future, contractors can look to lessons from the great recession for guidance
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has delivered 50 COVID-19 alternate care facilities in hotels, dormitories, convention centers and arenas with 12 more soon to be completed.
Many areas in the Southwest have escaped the widespread government-mandated shutdowns from the coronavirus pandemic, but several key regional projects have been halted, and planned starts for others are in jeopardy.
Gilbane Building Co. is deploying a new wearable tag from Triax Technologies that alerts workers when they are violating social distancing rules on jobsites and provides contact tracing information if someone becomes sick with COVID-19.
Industry brokers say the virus has not cancelled transactions but has put the brakes on speed of completion, with valuation uncertainties; U.S. payroll loan could also complicate sales.
Firms large and small in New York and New Jersey, and even individuals, produce plastic face shields to help augment dwindling supplies of personal protective equipment for health care workers.
University of Virginia Medical Center was able to redesign and accelerate portions of a $394-million expansion project to meet demand for bed capacity brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.