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NEWS ROUND-UP: How is COVID-19 Changing the Construction Industry Plus Wittman Regional Airport $7 Million FaceliftShare this on Facebook

On occasion, we like to share what we’ve been reading with you and this edition of The Build Out is just such an occasion.

First up, some good news in Oshkosh. After seven long years of designs and debates, construction on Wittman Regional Airport’s new terminal is beginning.

Coronavirus has been and continues to dominate the headlines, and our friends at ConstructionDive are exploring the positive and negative effects the COVID-19 situation has had on the construction industry.

Those articles explore a developing trend in rising materials costs, which has inherent challenges to it, plus the highlight the first-ever office building designed with “Coronavirus-fighting features” debuts in Chicago, and one Wisconsin-based construction company is trying to manage social distancing and other COVID-19 related reporting in 2020 that sounds a little like a chapter out of George Orwell’s 1984.