FEATURE
FBy Martin Charlton Communications
ew sectors can admit it has been business as usual over the past
12 months.
A global pandemic transformed life as we knew it.
Mandatory lockdowns, limited capacity for restaurants and retail outlets,
working and learning remotely all wreaked havoc on local, provincial and
national economies.
Amidst the chaos, the heavy construction industry hummed along relatively
unscathed, albeit with a few adjustments.
Overall, the industry enjoyed a productive season in 2020 and expects
more of the same this year as much of the world continues to grapple with
the coronavirus.
“Despite COVID-19 and all of the additional precautions that were put
in place, we actually had a really productive year in 2020,” said Shantel
Lipp, president of the Saskatchewan Heavy Construction Association. “I
think we got more built last year than we did the year before (2019). I don’t
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