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

As cases increase in Illinois, the state has fast-tracked a 200-bed veterans home to be used as a hospital. McCormick Place convention center also is undergoing a $71-million rehab to become an acute-care treatment facility.

In letter to Gov. Charlie Baker, building trades want all but emergency work stopped through April over COVID-19 concerns.

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer will allow COVID-19 halted projects extra time to finish without being responsible for liquidated damages.

With need to curb virus spread and protect workers and residents, governors and mayors from New York to California enact tougher rules, and shut down projects.

The 1918 influenza pandemic first erupted in France during World War I, having migrated from birds to pigs housed in factory-type farms and then to soldiers. It ravaged soldiers on army bases across the U.S. 

As current and projected demand for added hospital beds to care for COVID-19 patients reaches dire levels in parts of the U.S., contractors are helping health care systems and governments explore a variety of ways to address the shortages.