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Treasury, Labor Depts. Ease Family/Medical Leave Mechanisms

Plan implements provisions of Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Bruce Buckley

March 22, 2020

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Engineering and contractor groups say new program falls short of fixing industry cash-flow problems.

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GM Will Partner With Ventec to Manufacture Ventilators for COVID-19 Response

Ventec will use GM’s logistics, purchasing and manufacturing expertise to build more of the critically important machines

Jeff Yoders

March 22, 2020

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Medical device firm will make use of automaker's logistics and manufacturing expertise to scale up and expedite ventilator production.

Companies Offer Alternative Solutions for COVID-19 Beds

Bruce Buckley

March 20, 2020

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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.

Canada Provinces Are Not Shutting Projects, But Some Owners Scale Them Back

Scott Van Voorhis

March 20, 2020

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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.

Kansas OKs $10 Billion Transportation Program as Economic Stimulus

Jim Parsons

March 20, 2020

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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.

Pa. Contractors Rush To Respond to Construction Stop Order

Enforcement of state order to cease work begins March 21

Justin Rice Bruce Buckley

March 20, 2020

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Pennsylvania-based contractors scramble to close construction sites with enforcement set to start March 21 in effort to curb COVID-19.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot

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Stay-at-Home Orders in Eight Midwest States Broadly Exempt Construction, Michigan's is More Limited

Exceptions for construction work are broadly defined in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin coronavirus orders, Michigan's is narrower

Jeff Yoders

March 20, 2020

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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.

Contractor Pauses $215M W.Va. Highway Job Over Worker COVID-19 Concerns

Bruce Buckley

March 19, 2020

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State approval of one-week shutdown was easier with work ahead of schedule; a longer stoppage is not yet clear.

Pandemic Sidelines Some November Infrastructure Ballot Measures

Jim Parsons

March 19, 2020

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$100-billion Bay Area plan will not go before voters on Election Day, with backers concerned that changing economics could lead to defeat.

COVID-19

Coronavirus Confusion in California

Firms unclear about shelter-in-place directives and orders

Erica Berardi

March 18, 2020

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Confusion grew in California as businesses struggled to understand locally issued shelter-in-place and other COVID-19 related directives and orders that onsite work could continue only at “essential” or vital services, which make exceptions for certain construction.

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Treasury, Labor Depts. Ease Family/Medical Leave Mechanisms

GM Will Partner With Ventec to Manufacture Ventilators for COVID-19 Response

Companies Offer Alternative Solutions for COVID-19 Beds

Canada Provinces Are Not Shutting Projects, But Some Owners Scale Them Back

Kansas OKs $10 Billion Transportation Program as Economic Stimulus

Pa. Contractors Rush To Respond to Construction Stop Order

Stay-at-Home Orders in Eight Midwest States Broadly Exempt Construction, Michigan's is More Limited

Contractor Pauses $215M W.Va. Highway Job Over Worker COVID-19 Concerns

Pandemic Sidelines Some November Infrastructure Ballot Measures

Coronavirus Confusion in California

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