Market contraction and bottom-line hits are set to plague the AEC sector through 2021, but firms push to keep most staff in place, chiefs say in surveys.
Many hospital retrofits are aimed at increasing the supply of coronavirus patient ICU and airborne infection isolation rooms, to protect healthcare workers.
The state will temporarily reopen the 250-bed Newton Pavilion at Boston Medical Center, to help increase capacity for COVID-19 patients and others seeking health care in the city.
As shelter-in-place directives took effect across northern counties in California, contractors and local and state officials are trying to decipher the definition of “essential” in the unprecedented response to curtail COVID-19.
The White House has announced that President Trump intends to nominate J. Brett Blanton, a senior engineering manager with the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, as the next Architect of the Capitol.
Advocates hope to see efforts like Marin County's Bay Area Low-Carbon Concrete Code—which would limit embodied carbon in both public and private projects—catch on around the globe.
