COVID-19 Impacts Construction Industry: Now, then and Future

Majumder, Saikat; Biswas, Debasish

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“…• Pandemic had negatively impacted the labor market, supply of materials, supply of equipment, company liquidity, project delivery, supply chain disruptions, funding restrictions, and cash-flow concerns Majumder and Biswas (2021) • Lockdowns led to unanticipated project delays, governmental orders and permit delays, and reduce crew size with social distancing Majumder and Biswas (2021) Kuwait Surveys…”

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“…With the topic of health and safety management being at the forefront of the concerns of the construction industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the published studies have focused on analyzing the impact of the pandemic on project performance and developing guidelines to safely execute projects by collecting data through interviews or surveys with selected subject matter experts (Jamaludin et al, 2020;Majumder and Biswas, 2021;Simpeh and Amoah, 2021). While construction workers are the heartbeat of every construction project, there has been limited discussion on the perception of workers in the pandemic and the effectiveness of the newly established safety measures.…”

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Analysis of COVID-19 Concerns Raised by the Construction Workforce and Development of Mitigation Practices

Hatoum

Ali

Nassereddine

et al. 2021

Front. Built Environ.

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The coronavirus outbreak has created a global health crisis that has disrupted all industries, including the construction industry. Following the onset of the pandemic, construction workers faced and continue to face unprecedented safety and health challenges. Therefore, construction employers established new safety precautions to protect the health and safety of the workforce and minimize the spread of the virus. The new precautions followed the advice and guidelines offered by different health and safety agencies like the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC). With construction projects resuming operations, it becomes important to analyze the coronavirus-related health and safety concerns of construction workforce and understand how the new safety procedures can assist on jobsites. Existing studies mostly focused on interviews and surveys with construction companies to understand the impact on project performance and supply chains. However, no study has yet to analyze the United States construction workforce. This paper fills the gap by providing a qualitative descriptive analysis of the COVID-19 complaints data gathered by OSHA from construction jobsites. Information gathered by OSHA includes the jobsite location, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) of the construction company, the type of the complaint (i.e., formal or non-formal), and a thorough description of the complaint. N-grams were employed to analyze the complaints, detect trends, and compile a list of the most frequent concerns reported by the workforce. The analysis of the complaints data identifies safety practices that were most violated, highlights major safety and health concerns for construction workers, and pinpoints geographical areas that have seen a surge in complaints. The study also synthesized the existing research corpus and compiled a list of 100 best practices that construction employers can adopt to mitigate the concerns of the workforce. The findings of this study provide insights into the safety and health trends on construction sites, lay the foundation for future work of academicians and practitioners to address the concerns faced by construction workers, and serve as lessons learned for the industry in the case of any future pandemic.

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Analysis of COVID-19 Concerns Raised by the Construction Workforce and Development of Mitigation Practices

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Nassereddine

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Front. Built Environ.

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“…AI can also predict emerging trends and changes in customer behavior [152]. AI-enhanced drones will monitor construction sites [124].…”

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“…This pandemic is expected to reduce both supply and demand in the construction sector. As a sector highly driven by infrastructure projects, construction is expected to suffer greatly faced with the loss of income, high uncertainty, dismal business, consumer sentiments, and the fact that government funding will remain focused on the management of COVID-19 [123,124].…”

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Sustainable Construction Investment, Real Estate Development, and COVID-19: A Review of Literature in the Field

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Aspects of sustainable construction investment and real estate development (CIRED) and their interrelations during the period pre-, intra-, and post-COVID-19, are presented in the research. Applications of the topic model, environmental psychology theory, building life cycle method, and certain elements of bibliometrics, webometrics, article level metrics, altmetrics, and scientometrics make it possible to perform a quantitative analysis on CIRED. The CIRED topic model was developed in seven steps. This paper aims to present a literature review on CIRED throughout the pandemic and to look at the responses from the real estate and construction sector. This sector is a field that appears to be rapidly expanding, judging from the volume of current research papers. This review focuses on last year’s leading peer-reviewed journals. A combination of various keywords was applied for the review and the criteria for paper selections included construction investment, real estate development, civil engineering, COVID-19, and sustainability, as well as residential, industrial, commercial, land, and special purpose real estate, along with their risks, strategies, and trends. The articles reviewed for this paper, which analyzes three hypotheses, look at pre-, intra-, and post-pandemic CIRED. The three hypotheses were validated by analyzing scientific publications from around the world. Two innovative elements make this study stand out among the most advanced research on pre-, intra-, and post-pandemic CIRED. The first of the two innovations is the integrated analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic, COVID-19-related national policies, and business investment strategies relevant to CIRED and the interests of investors as well as on the impact a CIRED policy and investors make on the spread of COVID-19. In addition, this research demonstrates a marked increase in the effectiveness of a CIRED analysis, when the life cycle of a CIRED, the involved stakeholders with their own individual interests, the COVID-19 situation, and the external micro-, meso-, and macro-environments are covered comprehensively as a single entity.

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“…In the UK, the term work-life balance was first introduced in the women's Liberalization Movement. It was said that time that average working hour should be 14 to 16 h in a day and in a week it should be six days [20]. In this way, the entire concept of quality work-life became very popular in the reform and re-establishment strategy.…”

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Majumder

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When it comes to imagining the role of workplace, COVID-19 has changed our perspective. In this new normal, employees are trying to adapt to new ways of working. The compromised productivity is coming out from these constantly blurring work-life boundaries. Eventual burnout, continuous distraction, overloaded of information, etc., are highlighted among employees. Ensuring effective quality of work-life, the balance between work and life must be the company's main focus. There is a need to understand the effect of pandemic in the Quality of Work-Life (QWL) of the employees. The following chapter showcases the characteristics, importance and effect of pandemic on QWL.

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COVID-19 Impacts Construction Industry: Now, then and Future

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Analysis of COVID-19 Concerns Raised by the Construction Workforce and Development of Mitigation Practices

Analysis of COVID-19 Concerns Raised by the Construction Workforce and Development of Mitigation Practices

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