Broward County’s latest emergency order deems construction professionals “essential” and therefore exempt from mandatory closures to which many other industries are now subject, but employees may need to verify their status to authorities. On March 23rd, 2020, in yet another
Update: 3/25/2020FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE – BREAKING NEWS
Both Miami-Dade and Broward have classified construction as an “essential business”. This means the vast majority of our construction clients have remained open, albeit often with a skeleton office staff and limited field personnel.Scott Alfele is President of Ebsary Foundation
Stores may be closed and many folks stuck in their homes for the foreseeable future as a result of the COVID-19 Coronavirus but the business of construction rolls on. We reached out to some of our construction clients to
This is a question we often hear from contractors, and the answer is a little complicated. First, it is important to make the distinction between the virus and other diseases as well as the varied responses to these problems.
The
In a March 17th press conference to update the public on the coronavirus, the White House made a plea to the construction industry to donate their N95 face masks to local hospitals so as to help healthcare workers on the
During the public health crisis which is now upon us and is likely to worsen before it gets better, many employers, large and small, are growing increasingly concerned with the challenges they foresee in keeping their contractual obligations, sustaining
COVID-19 can affect both materials and labor in the construction industry because it affects both service and product providers. To finish a project, a construction company must furnish the labor (the service) to assemble component materials into a final structure
While several more businesses are ordered to cease all operations due to the escalating Coronavirus pandemic, construction professionals remain exempt from Miami Dade County’s latest Emergency Order. Effective 9:00pm Thursday March 19, 2020 all “non-essential” retail and commercial establishments were
Governments have imposed increasingly more extreme containment measures and more restrictive quarantines in response to COVID-19. Contractors and other construction professionals must consider their ability to fulfill their contractual obligations. Lack of workforce, lack of supplies, and lack of certainty
