New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed an
executive order announcing that the physical operations of construction projects must cease by Friday, April 10, 2020, at 8 pm with the exception of the following “essential” construction activities:
- Construction related to health care facilities and pharmaceutical manufacturing facilities,
- Transportation infrastructure including airports and seaports,
- Public utility work,
- Affordable housing construction,
- Schools,
- Completion of residential construction involving homes or occupied apartments (construction crew sizes must be five or fewer),
- Completion of unoccupied residential units under contract,
- Manufacturing and distribution facilities providing goods or products to online or essential retail businesses,
- Projects involving “data centers” or “facilities that are critical to a businesses’ ability to function,”
- Construction of homeless shelters and other essential social services,
- Construction activities supporting first responders and law enforcement,
- Government projects,
- Work necessary to safely secure the site of any non-essential project, and
- Emergency repairs to residential dwellings.
Essential construction projects that are allowed to continue must follow stringent safety requirements including:
- Prohibit non-essential visitors,
- Work site meetings must be fewer than ten individuals,
- Six feet of physical separation wherever possible,
- Staggering start and stop times,
- Staggering breaks,
- Restrict concurrent access to common areas,
- Face coverings,
- Specified infection control practices,
- Restricted sharing of tools,
- Making sanitizers available, and
- Sanitizing high-touch areas.
Please do not hesitate to call on the Stradley Ronon Construction Group for assistance regarding these issues.
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