Public-private partnerships might be the key to shaping construction’s post-pandemic future

ENR's past coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the industry, dating back to the beginning of 2020.

The pandemic is driving rapid change in design and construction technology, but the same adoption rigor that existed before it still delivers the best results.

A new coordination workflow between Autodesk BIM 360 Model Coordination and Navisworks allows users to assign and track clashes and other issuers from anywhere to anywhere without meetings and other face-to-face activities.

Region’s contractors are seeing commercial slowdowns, a decrease in backlogs and labor and material shortages.

Contractors are relying even more heavily on prefabrication and modularization and communication technologies using A/R, V/R and cloud sharing.

Construction jobs also increase as stay-at-home orders loosen and states re-open construction.