Six Bay Area counties in California—Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara, along with the city of Berkeley—announced March 31 that most construction will be halted due to a tightened, joint shelter-in-place命令effective at 11:59 p.m.

洛杉矶市长还宣布了新的现场安全指南并鼓励公开报道建筑不合规，违反该市的全家命令。

新的湾区命令说，大多数建筑（住宅和商业）被禁止，除了直接与COVID-19响应有关的医疗保健设施建设。其他例外包括领先政府机构认为必不可少的公共工程项目，可确保现有的建筑工地和经新利18备用网址济适用房的工作。

“These new, stricter ordinances are a very sobering reminder of what is at stake,” says Emily Cohen, executive vice president of United Contractors (UCON). “We are working to get clarification from each local agency, Caltrans and the administration about what these stricter ordinances mean for a variety of work.”

UCON needs guidance on if, when and how contractors can work in each county and believes statewide guidance would be best. Cohen says on vital construction—including roads, bridges, highways, water infrastructure, schools, hospitals and utilities—work must continue in order to maintain and protect the state.

AGC of California expects a significant portion of members' work to be closed, but notes the California Dept. of Transportation (Caltrans) and Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) are both continuing to operate under “essential” designation – for now.

加利福尼亚州首席执行官AGC彼得·泰特西（Peter Tateishi）表示，成员正在做出实时业务决策，这将影响许多工人。

塔蒂希（Tateishi）说：“将会有裁员，就业关系和项目搁置。”他补充说，该地区有一些“不好的演员”，这些“不好的演员”不符合Covid-19的协议 - 新利18备用网址使员工和公共卫生置于危险。“我们的成员认真对待安全 - 他们希望工人安全回家并第二天回来。”

Caltrans and BART were not immediately available for comment.

The new命令说构造仅在与以下方式相关的情况下定义为“必不可少的”：

• the necessary maintenance, operation, or repair of essential infrastructure
• projects associated with health-care operations, including creation or expansion, as long as it is directly related to the COVID-19 response
• affordable housing that is or will be income-restricted
• 公共工程项目如果专门定义为新利18备用网址基本的政府职能
• 庇护所和临时住房，但不包括酒店或汽车旅馆
• 新利18备用网址立即为经历无家可归的个人，老年人，经济不利的人以及有特殊需要的人提供关键的非商业服务所必需的项目
• construction necessary to existing
• sites that must be shut down because of the order to be left in a safe and secure manner
• 确保在这种建筑或维修的范围内，必须延迟的建筑和建筑物是安全，卫生或可居住的所必需的施工或维修

The order supersedes earlier orders issued by the counties, which gave varying definitions of “essential” that allowed most construction to continue. All essential business must comply with social distancing protocol, which must be provided to each employee.

Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti issued new COVID-19 safety指导for construction sites after reports that some jobs were not complying with the city’s safer-at-home order.

“Any worker who is sick, like everyone else in Los Angeles, must stay home,” Garcetti said at a press conference. “We will not be shy about hunting down construction that does not comply. So, comply.”

由洛杉矶部门发布的建筑安全部门发布的新指南表示，其工作人员将在定期检查期间验证合规性，以及源于提交呼叫中心或网站的投诉的其他检查。

Garcetti said that some complaints could provide potential rewards to the informant, adding: “Snitches get rewards."

但是，他说，该准则并不是由于不合规的日益增加而造成的，他补充说：“不，我们看到更多的打滑并不是要收紧拧紧螺丝的反映。”