Tips to Navigate Scheduling Impacts of COVID-19

With varying “essential business” definitions and stay-at-home directives rolled out across the country, our industry is faced with inevitable cost, scheduling and related project management issues due to COVID-19. 

Some truths: 75 percent of 1,077 contractors surveyed by the Associated General Contractors of America said they have experienced a project cancellation or postponement due to the ongoing pandemic, per survey data released in late October. And more than 85% of contractors report they have been negatively impacted by COVID-19, according to the results of an August reader survey conducted by the Associated Builders and Contractors’ Construction Executive magazine. Among the contributing factors cited by ABC and others forthis increased rate of postponement and/or cancellation of construction projects are supply chain disruptions, prolonged municipal permitting processes, delayed inspections due to office closures, material shortages, new safety protocols, and overall reduced productivity.

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