Early April talk about including infrastructure provisions in recovery bills related to the coronavirus pandemic has been overtaken by other priorities, such as more aid for small businesses.
Energy majors, whose CEOs met with President Trump April 3 over falling prices, are among 300 firms in hard-hit sectors hit with ratings cuts, S&P Global Ratings said in an April 8 webinar.
The only group in the U.S. and Canada that collects and disseminates lessons from failures, errors, mishaps and safety issues is calling for reports on structural and jobsite hazards arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Building on or near wetlands and other environmentally sensitive areas is a known challenge in construction. But a new app seeks to automate much of the wetlands evaluation process and then instantly populate the relevant forms and documentation.
In a recent survey by the International Code Council, 26% of the more than 1,150 code-official respondents report building departments have received requests for permits for COVID-19-related facilities, including in temporary structures in alternative locations, such as school gymnasiums, hotels, outpatient surgical centers or in pop-structures in parking lots.
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