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Regional contractors scramble to keep jobsites clean and workers safe as some local areas ban construction activities.

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

Some states in the Southwest have put mandatory shelter-in-place restrictions in place but construction continues on most jobsites.

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.

From the hundreds of thousands of page views on ENR.com, we know readers are on a quest to understand the rapidly changing situations they face during the COVID-19 emergency.

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.

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.