While state and city-based shutdowns of construction sites due to COVID-19 have thrown a wrench into projects in many areas of the country, another factor is impacting general contractors: a lack of available specialty contractors, according to panelists in a Associated General Contractors of New York State webinar earlier this week. A decrease in the number of available specialty contractors could be devastating to the industry, which was already low on skilled labor before the spread of the coronavirus outbreak. Another factor leaving subs on the sidelines is that in the confusion of state and citywide shelter-in-place orders, trade companies sometimes believe they are are nonessential and need to halt work, even though that’s not usually the case, the panelists said.
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