California’s construction industry is mobilizing to aid coronavirus response


Thanks to clarifications from California Governor Gavin Newsom, construction work has been classified as one of the state’s “essential” services and will be allowed to proceed, with certain health and social distancing precautions, amid the increasing social and economic shutdown resulting from the spread of COVID-19

On Thursday night, the state moved to shut down nonessential businesses as varying degrees of “shelter in place” directives took effect across California, including in the nine county San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Angeles County. 

In a recent reportPolitico’s Carla Marinucci and Katy Murphy write that “plans are in the works to deploy tens of thousands of construction workers to retool and refit hospitals, hotels and buildings the state needs as a surge response to the coronavirus pandemic.”

The reporters interview Robbie Hunter, president of the California Building and Construction Trades Council, who anticipates a construction surge to help meet a looming incr...

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