• S.KRITHIGA
• S.KAVIYA
• M.S.LAKSHMI PRIYA
• S.Lavanya

The World Health Organization (WHO) announced the 2019 coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak as a pandemic, after a remarkable increase in COVID-19 cases, several countries have declared a full national lockdown. Such decisions have limited people’s movement and resulted in the complete closure of many corporations across many industries. The construction industry is also facing more work and financial crisis due to this corona pandemic. Majorly affected construction sector. It would seem that hospital construction and healthcare related building construction is doing well due to the aging out of a major part of the population. Construction of large retail stores has declined as companies have been forced to downsize due to health issues and the opportunity to search for virtually any product on the internet.Construction industry members like owners, contractors, subcontractors and supply chain vendors experiencing various level of impacts due to corona virus. Due to lack of funds many of the construction projects remained unfinished and the completed project remained unsold due to the pandemic. The increase in the price of raw materials for construction field and operating costs worsened the situation in addition to it, the decrease in the demand for residential real estate brought the sector to a grinding hault. But then the road to recovery is found by implementing safety measures and precautions to the migrant labourers and implementing skilled workers for faster completion of the projects. The major causes of lags and economic problem in the construction works during pandemic situation has been furnished in this paper. The main objective of this article is to discuss about the impact of covid-19 on construction field and how to overcome these impacts for the upcoming years.

Covid-19, Construction Sector, Overcomes, Economy

"THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN CONSTRUCTION FIELD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no.380-383, April-2021, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRES06081.pdf

"THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 IN CONSTRUCTION FIELD", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no. pp380-383, April-2021, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRES06081.pdf