Shawmut Design and Construction has joined Draper and Wexford Science & Technology to break ground on the 111,000-square-foot Integrated Microelectronics Production & Advanced Chip Technology (IMPACT) Center in Lowell, Massachusetts.
New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order deems construction essential and allows work to continue at full capacity. Read the Bisnow/New York story here
Twenty-eight percent of respondents to an AGC survey said they have halted or delayed project work due to the coronavirus pandemic, citing supply interruptions and labor shortages. Read the Engineering News-Record story here
New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo is calling on the federal government to approve construction of temporary hospitals at State University of New York at Stony Brook, SUNY Old Westbury, the Westchester County Center and the Javits Center to serve coronavirus patients. Read the WCBS-TV/WLNY-TV story
Construction sites in Illinois are exempted from the governor’s statewide order for most residents to remain in their homes during the coronavirus pandemic. Construction falls under the category of “essential infrastructure,” while critical trades are exempted separately. Read the Engineering News-Record story here
Mandates from California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles County officials exempt construction on a new stadium for the Chargers and Rams, according to Inglewood Mayor James T. Butts Jr.’s interpretation of the rules. Nonessential workers are teleworking, and contractor Turner AECOM Hunt has taken
Construction will begin this week to turn the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan into a 1,000-bed hospital, a first step toward eventually doubling that number. Read the Bloomberg story here
The coronavirus outbreak has spurred mixed reactions from economists across the world, with some tying the pandemic to a likely recession. But the US had already been in the midst of decelerating economic growth even before the coronavirus caused global panic. Read the SmartBrief/Infrastructure story
Major hotels will be turned into quarantine zones and even hospital wards in an emergency plan that is also mobilizing industry to fill looming shortages for medical equipment to fight the coronavirus. Read The Sydney Morning Herald story here
New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order deems construction essential and allows work to continue at full capacity. Read the Bisnow/New York story here
New York Govenor Andrew Cuomo’s executive order deems construction essential and allows work to continue at full capacity. Read the Bisnow/New York story here
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