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Industry firms, suppliers and entrepreneurs are coming up with new processes and innovations to fight the spread of COVID-19

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.

The U.S. General Services Administration is planning to renovate between 160,000 sq ft and 200,00 sq ft on the first and second floors of the Fort Benjamin Harrison Bean Center, a 1.6-million-sq-ft federal office building in Lawrence.

Alliance Metals USA is planning to construct an aluminum smelter in Wenden.

Maintaining social distancing can be a problem on an active jobsite. But Smartvid.io is turning it's safety-monitoring A.I. toward the challenge of keeping workers safely spaced out.

As the global pandemic rages, the construction sector copes with constantly shifting realities to keep projects, workforces, clients, bottom-lines and futures on track.