Identifying Actions to Control and Mitigate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Construction Organizations: Preliminary Findings

Raoufi, Mohammad; Fayek, Aminah Robinson

doi:10.1177/1087724x20969164

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“…Construction organisations must regularly monitor for public health and government announcements to ensure compliance with the most recent regulations and guidelines (Raoufi and Fayek, 2020). Okoye et al (2016) reported that compliance to safety regulations and policies is not widespread within the industry, which is consistent with the finding of this study: "Workers were restricted from eating together.…”

Section: Approach To Managing the Risk Of Covid-19 On Sitesupporting

confidence: 78%

“…A construction organisation insists on refusing sick workers' entrance to the site. The practice is consistent with the recommendations of Raoufi and Fayek (2020), Simpeh and Amoah (2021), which indicate that anyone who shows symptoms of COVID should be identified and disallowed from entering the site to mitigate the risk of a possible spread of the virus. The measure of requesting that workers with symptoms stay home can, however, be supported by necessary follow-ups to establish the nature of the sickness through the COVID-19 test.…”

Section: Approach To Managing the Risk Of Covid-19 On Sitesupporting

confidence: 69%

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Managing the risk and challenges of COVID-19 on construction sites in Lagos, Nigeria

Kukoyi

Simpeh

Adebowale

et al. 2021

JEDT

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Purpose The novel COVID-19 pandemic has increased the risk in construction operations. New systems are, thus, required on construction sites to mitigate the risk and challenges associated with the pandemic. This paper aims to determine construction organisations risk control systems and the challenges of implementing safety measures on construction sites. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a qualitative research method. A purposive sampling method was used to select study participants, who were administered open-ended questionnaires designed to gather qualitative data. The contents of the data were analysed, presented and reported based on the objectives of the study. Findings Some of the construction organisations conducted COVID-19 related risk assessments, whilst a few organisations did not conduct a risk assessment. Inspections to ensure COVID-19 compliance was done by government officials, health organisations and client’s health and safety officers. The construction organisations demonstrated considerable competence in record keeping and some organisations further evolved a follow-up plan for sick workers. The study found that some construction practitioners had misconceptions about the disease, used COVID-19 personal protective equipment incorrectly and lack adequate information about the virus. It is required that construction stakeholders evolve policies and strategies that would promote risk control and foster compliance to COVID-19 safety measures. Originality/value COVID-19 is still new, therefore, the body of knowledge is still at the infancy stage. This paper provided insight into the COVID-19 related risk and challenges that may increase the rate of virus infection amongst construction practitioners.

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Section: Approach To Managing the Risk Of Covid-19 On Sitesupporting

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Section: Approach To Managing the Risk Of Covid-19 On Sitesupporting

confidence: 69%

Managing the risk and challenges of COVID-19 on construction sites in Lagos, Nigeria

Kukoyi

Simpeh

Adebowale

et al. 2021

JEDT

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“…Emergent coding was used to identify themes and ideas within the data transcribed from the interviews [34]. Furthermore, multiple studies have already applied qualitative research methods to explore the influence of COVID-19 in the construction industry, and as such, emphasizing the value of applying these research methods to better understand the influence of the current pandemic context in the construction sector (e.g., [6,16,29]).…”

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“…Similarly, Ref. [29] identified that a measure to minimize the impact on the construction supply chain is to identify at-risk suppliers that might not be replaced. Ultimately, regarding impacts on owners and public agencies, the literature indicates that workforce reduction due to the pandemic context may limit their capacity to develop new construction projects (owners) and oversee permits for construction projects in the case of agencies [11].…”

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Influence between COVID-19 Impacts and Project Stakeholders in Chilean Construction Projects

Araya

Sierra

2021

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The construction sector has been heavily impacted by COVID-19 due to the restricted conditions required by construction projects to perform physical activities. Given this context, it is of interest for the industry to identify the impacts that COVID-19 has had on the development of construction projects. However, little is known regarding how the impacts of COVID-19 have affected multiple stakeholders in construction projects and whether there is some interaction among such impacts. This study aims to explore the impacts of COVID-19 and their influence among different construction stakeholders (i.e., engineers and managers, workers, suppliers). This study was enabled by 40 semi-structured interviews that were performed with stakeholders in construction projects in Chile. Content analysis from the interviews led to the identification of categories of impacts and stakeholders, to the development of a cognitive map of the impacts, and to the application of correspondence analysis. Fifteen categories of impacts were identified, and six construction stakeholders were identified as having been impacted by COVID-19. Identifying the causes and effects of the impacts felt by multiple stakeholders revealed that these impacts interacted among each other. Understanding the impacts of COVID-19 on construction stakeholders may facilitate the development of effective mitigation strategies to reduce COVID-19 impacts on the construction sector.

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“…The results include the identification of (1) the current effects of COVID-19 on construction organizations; (2) the top actions to control and mitigate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on construction organizations; and (3) a comparative analysis of the actions implemented in the early versus middle stages of the pandemic. A preliminary data analysis of the early pandemic survey data was presented by Raoufi and Fayek (2020). The current paper provides a complete data analysis of both the early pandemic and midpandemic survey data and also provides a comparison of different actions taken during different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.…”

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New Modes of Operating for Construction Organizations during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, Actions, and Future Best Practices

Raoufi

Fayek

2022

J. Manage. Eng.

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Construction organizations have been implementing different actions to control and mitigate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on their workers and operations. Although some of these actions allowed construction organizations to remain productive during the pandemic, many organizations still struggle to cope with these effects. The construction industry has a need to identify the most effective actions that construction organizations can take to effectively control and mitigate the challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents results of two surveys conducted with construction organizations, primarily in North America, and identifies the most effective mitigation actions to help construction organizations operate during this pandemic and develop evidence-based operational strategies to use during the current pandemic and any future pandemics. The contributions of this paper are (1) identifying an extensive list of possible actions to control and mitigate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on construction organizations, (2) providing a categorization and methodology for assessing and ranking these actions, (3) identifying the most effective mitigation actions for construction organizations during the current COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics, and (4) developing a comparative analysis of action prioritization for different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to provide insight into the management of the adverse effects of pandemics on construction organizations. Data analysis of the survey results showed that construction organizations have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of their operational capacity, productivity, and workforce practices, and many organizations expect to have higher percentages of employees working remotely postpandemic they did prepandemic. Comparative analysis also showed an increasing trend in the importance of using technology to control and mitigate effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in construction organizations.

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Identifying Actions to Control and Mitigate the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Construction Organizations: Preliminary Findings

Cited by 38 publications

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Managing the risk and challenges of COVID-19 on construction sites in Lagos, Nigeria

Managing the risk and challenges of COVID-19 on construction sites in Lagos, Nigeria

Influence between COVID-19 Impacts and Project Stakeholders in Chilean Construction Projects

New Modes of Operating for Construction Organizations during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges, Actions, and Future Best Practices

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