在整个2019年，得克萨斯州，路易斯安那州，阿肯色州，俄克拉荷马州和密西西比州的建筑业表现良好，预计2020年的成功持续成功。- 大流行的期限影响。

“Business for the most part has been good—not as robust as some of the other Texas markets, but not terrible either,” says Jerry Nevlud, president and CEO of the Houston chapter of the Associated General Contractors (AGC). While it’s still not clear what the total impact of the pandemic will be, Nevlud says some projects have been put on hold and a few canceled outright. “Members are still somewhat busy and are currently fairly busy looking at future work,” he says.

马德里Ferrovial S.A.全资子公司的总裁兼首席执行官Jose Carlos Esteban说，重型和水工厂承包商和材料生产商Webber从休斯敦的一项积压中受益，在过去的18个月中，收入稳步增长。

韦伯最近赢得了达拉斯赢得了3.01亿美元的TXDOT LOOP 12重建项目，并将其重大的民事运营扩展到了弗吉尼亚州的亚特兰大和费尔法克斯。由于人口增长，其PLW Waterworks部门在德克萨斯州的PLW Waterworks部门在持续的需求。

埃斯特班说：“尽管Covid-19迫使我们适应不断变化的工作条件，但我们很幸运地进入一个被认为必不可少的行业。”“我们所有的项目都在继续新利18备用网址进步。实际上，随着交通流量的减少，我们已经能够加速一些道路建设时间表，而TXDOT一直是其中的一个很好的合作伙伴。”

The construction industry in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex—and Texas in general—was “booming” throughout 2019 and the first quarter of 2020, says Emily Baker, marketing manager for TEXO.

She notes that monthly reports from Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) and AGC for construction employment and spending consistently documented increases year over year, especially in the DFW region. Moreover, the AGC of America’s 2020 Construction Outlook survey showed that, prior to COVID-19, most contractors expected an increase this year in the dollar value of projects to bid. “The primary concern across the industry was the lack of qualified workers available to hire,” says Baker.

她说，大多数建筑的健康和安全协议都在继续，但是物质成本上涨了 - 例如，自4月17日以来，木材的价格飙升了50％。新利18备用官网登录由于全球供应链延迟，这与材料供应较短。

Baker adds: “Most contractors believe the more daunting consequences are still to come as demand for new commercial construction projects decreases and contractors’ backlogs of work are diminished.”

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Uncertainty in Louisiana

“In 2019, the Louisiana construction industry was coming down from historic highs and anticipating a strong 2020 fueled by the start of several industrial megaprojects across south Louisiana—many just ramping up when COVID-19 changed everything,” says David Helveston, president of the Pelican Chapter, Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. in Baton Rouge.

几乎同时，大流行和由此产生的家庭订单减少了对许多产品的需求，而石油的价格大大下降。

Helveston说：“不利和不确定的市场状况刺激了许多公司迅速在项目上停下来。”新利18备用网址“我们已经看到许多项目被推迟了12新利18备用网址-18个月，或者至少在市场上更加清晰。”

东南地区副总裁李·詹金斯（Lee Jenkins）表示，也位于巴吞鲁日（Baton Rouge）的工业承包商Performance Contractors Inc.将在大流行于3月开始之前是其40年历史上最大的一年。他说：“但是，原油的爆发和价格降低对我们的业务产生了负面影响，因为我们正在进行的一些项目已被推迟。”新利18备用网址“除了一个项目的例外，我们希望这些项目将在2021年后期或2022年重新启动。”新利18备用网址

In Oklahoma, commercial construction has been very active over the last 18 months, says Doug Tapp, CEO of AGC’s Oklahoma Building Chapter. But, he notes, a number of privately funded projects have been put on hold or canceled.

Tulsa-based Manhattan Construction Group completed three major projects in March. These include the Texas Rangers’ stadium in Arlington and two highway projects, one in Oklahoma City and one in Little Rock.

“Throughout our five generations of family ownership, 2019 was an unprecedented year for us,” says Larry Rooney, the fifth-generation president of the building, civil, pipeline and specialty construction company. “This crisis is compelling people and companies in all market sectors to rethink how they operate. From health care facilities to office spaces, we will see changes in how spaces are programmed, how people interact in those spaces and, most importantly, how we can create building environments with safer distances between people to prevent the spread of illness in the future.”

同时，在阿肯色州，“尽管Covid-19，但事情都进展顺利，”阿肯色州ABC北小石城总裁比尔·罗切尔（Bill Roachell）说。

He points to the robust northwest Interstate 540 corridor where Walmart, Tyson Foods and J.B. Hunt are headquartered. In Bentonville, Walmart is building its $3.5-billion to $5-billion global headquarters, currently the state’s largest project.

Roachell说，尽管成员遵循CDC一致的步骤，但“数字在六到九个月内都非常好，而且很少有项目被推迟，因此我们对未来持谨慎乐观的态度。”新利18备用网址

杰克逊密西西比州AGC执行董事鲍勃·威尔逊（Bob Wilson）说，在密西西比州，2019年的商业建设同比增长了3％至5％。“劳动可用性问题仍在继续，但总的来说，业务是有利的。”

餐馆，娱乐场所和新利18备用网址酒店项目等私人项目感受到了影响。他说：“有些竞标停止或放缓，因此[长期前景]仍然令人担忧。”“许多人都有积压的业务，他们继续从事积压。”

As the virus stopped Mississippi’s legislative session before budgets could be approved, some projects for state government and institutes of higher learning stalled. But with the extension of the state tax deadline to July 15, at least $250 million in tax revenue was shifted to the past fiscal year ending June 2020.

“That, coupled with the initial state stimulus, allowed the state to almost make our agency budgets whole, with most seeing a 2% to 4% decrease—certainly manageable. And that meant those state and university projects could move forward, as well as MDOT projects,” says Wilson. “We are cautiously optimistic about construction returning to pre-COVID levels by the end of 2020.”