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Health Care Designers Educate, Advise, Warn During COVID-19 Crisis

March 24, 2020

Design professionals are mobilizing to provide advice and guidance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Health care facility practitioners are also warning officials that haste in creating temporary treatment centers can create unintended negative consequences.

California State, County Clarifications to Stay-at-Home Orders Raise More Questions

Erica Berardi

March 24, 2020

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Many questions remain about whether local restrictions on construction supersede state guidance.

Philadelphia Hospital Project Pushes Forward to Care For COVID-19 Patients

Penn Medicine project hopes to open 15 months early

Bruce Buckley

March 23, 2020

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A Pennsylvania hospital is rushing to open part of a new tower in an effort to help with the influx of coronavirus patients.

Contractors Meet Deadline To Button Up Boston Construction Sites

All but a few projects are required to comply with work-stop order

Justin Rice

March 23, 2020

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Boston officials expected nearly full compliance with an order to shutter and secure construction sites in an effort to combat coronavirus.

Coronavirus and Construction

COVID-19 and Falling Oil Prices Roil Oil and Gas Sector

Construction Projects Delayed

Pam McFarland

March 23, 2020

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Lower oil prices plus lower demand, in addition to work stoppages because of the coronavirus, is leading to major uncertainty for related projects.

Construction Groups Push Back on OSHA's COVID-19 Reporting Rule

Jim Parsons

March 23, 2020

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Tracing the virus to workplace exposure for recordkeeping, as noted in March 13 agency guidance, presents a compliance challenge, firms say.

Work Continues on Nearly Complete Sports Facilities, Some to Sit Empty

Tim Newcomb

March 23, 2020

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Crews press ahead with stadium and ballpark construction projects despite schedule pauses by the major sports leagues.

Obituary

COVID-19 Claims John LaPlante, 80, Chicago's First DOT Commissioner

Engineer died March 22 from his non-industry related infection.

Jeff Yoders

March 23, 2020

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Engineer, also a former manager for design firm T.Y. Lin, died March 22 from his non-industry related infection.

Coronavirus and Construction

Tourism’s Tumble Halts Airline’s $420M Florida Resort Project, for Now

Is what happened in Florida a sign of more to come?

Richard Korman

March 23, 2020

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Travel and tourism, which had provided a boost to Charlotte Harbor, Fla., is in trouble all over the world.

Cloud Infrastructure Keeps Firms Afloat During Coronavirus Pandemic

But transition may be rocky for firms looking for quick solutions

Jeff Rubenstone

March 22, 2020

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Some design and engineering firms that have shifted to cloud-based IT infrastructure are finding they can maintain their workloads even as many employees are forced out of their offices due to the pandemic.