Everything from advanced screening to training and preparation for reopening where necessary is being undertaken by Midwest contractors adjusting to life under the COVID-19 pandemic.
Projects across ENR's 11-state Midwest region are being postponed or shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic with no real certainty in sight as to when they might continue. The wide-ranging secondary effects of the novel coronavirus and the shutdowns it caused include loss of sales tax and revenue for state incentives.
The Midwest’s top 105 firms posted a new regional revenue record, a total of $6.14 billion, in 2019. That's well ahead of the $5.78 billion a similar top firms group (100 firms) posted from 2018 revenue.
The largest project in the history of Johnson County, Kan., the $25-million reconstruction of the Tomahawk Creek Wastewater Treatment Facility, remains on schedule despite flooding and COVID-19.
After flooding caused by 2019's Bomb Cyclone, HDR and Eriksen Construction got the Papillion Creek Water Resource Recovery Facility back online in two months.