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Contractors across America need to hear this: Jill Bloom has a conversation with W&C’s Editorial Director Mark Fowler, CEO of South Valley Drywall Travis Vap, FL Crane & Sons’ Ty Crane, and T.J. Wies Contracting’s Tim Wies as a panel to talk about the short term issues of contracting. 

Wall and ceiling contractors are urged to begin preparing now by evaluating their own supply chains to pinpoint vulnerabilities and make sure they have adequate provisions in their contracts to protect themselves from the increased costs, supply chain delays and interruptions due to the ongoing crisis.

On Thursday, April 9th, hundreds of construction firms from across the country will stop work and hold coronavirus-focused safety stand downs as part of a nationwide safety campaign organized by the Associated General Contractors of America.

The number of emergency construction sites exempt from the New York’s shutdown of non-essential work has jumped by more than 300 since last week.

As we navigate this evolving COVID-19 pandemic together, we are facing challenging conditions which will impact how all of us in the construction, installation, property management and maintenance sectors deliver services.

Walls & Ceilings’ Jill Bloom again invites Roofing Contractor’s Editorial Director Rick Damato and Cotney Construction Law’s CEO Trent Cotney to discuss the developing Coronavirus pandemic and how this influences policy and impacts the construction industry. 

On March 31, the SBA issued guidelines (“SBA Guidelines”) to implement the Paycheck Protection Program (“PPP”) which was a critical part of the recently passed CARES Act.

COVID-19 has now been declared a pandemic, and the disease is spreading quickly throughout the United States. In a matter of weeks, the human and economic impact has become devastating for working people and for our country. The labor movement is mobilizing and doing everything we can to protect our members and the general public, and we ask the federal government, state and local governments, and employers to do the same.

The fast-worsening COVID-19 pandemic has triggered layoffs at more than a quarter of construction firms responding to an online survey released today by the Associated General Contractors of America.

The Michigan Infrastructure & Transportation Association on Friday officially asked Governor Whitmer to deem all construction field operations as non-essential to protect the health and safety of industry employees and to allow for all Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to be focused on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic (at hospitals and medical facilities).