Some design and engineering firms that have shifted to cloud-based IT infrastructure are finding they can maintain their workloads even as many employees are forced out of their offices due to the pandemic.
AEC firms, health care providers and agencies work to speed hospital beds, including fast-track fit-outs of existing spaces, temporary tents, mobile combat hospitals and modular solutions.
Officials don't want COVID-19 to sidetrack a key economic driver, but western megaproject sites are sending workers home. Confirmed cases rose on March 22 to 1,302 from 1,099 a day earlier.
New package has safeguards to protect project funds from budget raids that siphoned billions in the existing program; Kentucky $4B funding bill also set to pass.
Exceptions for construction work are broadly defined in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin coronavirus orders, Michigan's is narrower
Construction in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin is seen as essential infrastructure, so work continues on most sites in those states. Minnesota, Kentucky, Missouri and Kansas's orders broadly exempt outdoor activities. Michigan's order includes public works construction as essential.