$9.6B worth of infrastructure projects delayed or canceled during COVID-19 | Dump Trucks Charlotte NC

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The report underlines an important area in which the lagging impacts of COVID-19 are just now starting to emerge in construction’s numbers, while contractors increasingly worry about the potential of a sagging economy to shelve new projects.

The 16 states ARTBA highlighted as having delays or cancellations include:

• Florida

• Georgia

• Hawaii

• Kentucky

• Massachusetts

• Mississippi

• Missouri

• Nevada

• New Mexico

• North Carolina

• Ohio

• Pennsylvania

• Vermont

• Washington

• West Virginia

• Wyoming

The news, which comes amid a resurgence of virus outbreaks in multiple states nationally, has only added to the anxiety infrastructure columbus oh dump truck company were already feeling about an increasingly grim funding environment.

“We don’t have a road building member that isn’t very nervous about the foreseeable future when it comes to how much columbus oh dump truck company they have,” said Brian Turmail, vice president of public affairs at the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC).

He said that beyond public infrastructure projects, many road builders take on private projects funded by businesses that have also been hit hard.

“Most road builders don’t just columbus oh dump truck company on public projects,” Turmail said. “They also do paving for everything from distribution centers to shopping malls. A lot of our guys are telling us their private sector columbus oh dump truck company has dried up, too, so they’re kind of getting hit from both sides.”

Overall heavy and civil engineering construction employment total fell 10% in April, according to AGC chief economist Ken Simonson, slightly less than the 14% drop for all of construction. But while total construction employment rebounded 8% in May and June, heavy and civil employment increased just 3% in May before dropping 1% in June. 

That dip could reflect "the wrap up of projects that had been accelerated earlier in the spring and cancelations of columbus oh dump truck company that is normally awarded in May and June," Simonson said. 

On July 20, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) asked Congress for an “immediate infusion” of $37 billion to offset losses at state departments of transportation related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The dire economic and funding data came while Congress struggled to come to consensus on a second broader round of COVID-19 relief funding, even as previous assistance packages passed this spring began to expire.

Indeed, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), in an effort to urge Congress to pass a COVID-19 infrastructure relief package, released a map July 29 highlighting about 50 projects that are ready to be built, but still need funding.

“At a time when people are confined to their homes, need jobs and with low interest rates for project funding, we have an opportunity to fast-track construction, but America is stuck until Congress acts,” ASCE president K.N. Gunalan said in a statement.   

In one bright spot for infrastructure contractors, Illinois Gov. Jay “J.B.” Pritzker recently unveiled a $21.3 billion, five-year infrastructure plan to improve 3,356 miles of roadway and 8.4 million square feet of bridge deck in the state, according to Transport Topics. Just under $2.8 billion is earmarked for year one of the initiative.