Build UK and the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) have said the UK construction industry is set to become ‘dramatically and severely affected’ from Coronavirus. In a joint statement released today, the two organizations warned the situation had ‘accelerated’ over the weekend.
They warned that construction sites across the country will have to close if the UK government chooses to put the country into ‘lockdown’ and takes measures to restrict the movement of UK citizens.
— The Scaffolding Magazine
According to The Scaffolding Magazine, Build UK said, the impact on construction’s supply chain, consisting of multiple layers of businesses, many of them small businesses with a significant amount of self-employed workers will be "catastrophic and unavoidable." Build UK and the CECA have introduced a number of measures to prepare for the impact of coronavirus on construction and are working to interact with the government to mitigate the situation, The Scaffolding Magazine reports.
Archinect recently reported that work has already stopped at Google's new London campus as a result of the crisis and that similar stoppages are taking shape in the United States.
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