Construction Management Association of America (CMAA)

CONSTRUCT ION MANAGEMENT ASSOC I AT ION OF AMER I CA (CMAA) everyone.” BVM: How has COVID-19 impacted your members? Rutledge: “We undertook a study in the fall of 2020, asking a small group of members the same questions every month for seven months. Basic questions such as: How is this affecting your backlog? When do you think your volume of work will come back to pre-pandemic levels? How is this affecting your staff? And we’ve been tracking the changes in those responses over time. “What we’re seeing is that state by state, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, the answer is different. It largely depended on whether each U.S. jurisdiction treated construction as an essential service. In those that did, our members had to establish safety protocols for having people on the jobsite. They either used the CDC guidelines, or they worked in collaboration with the owner, especially healthcare owners. Our members were very generous about sharing with each other. “Where it was not essential, projects slowed down or shut down in some cases, but they didn’t stay that way for very long. In