COVID UPDATES From the Desk of Julie Muller, Executive Vice President of SMACNA-WW

CDC Guidelines: Holiday celebrations and gatherings As many people in the United States begin to plan for fall and winter holiday celebrations, CDC offers the following considerations to help protect individuals and their families, friends, and communities from COVID-19. READ MORE

White paper gives HVAC guidance for reopening schools  More than half of the new HVAC systems installed in California schools exhibited "significant problems" within three years, while most classrooms in the state fall below recommended ventilation rates, according to a 2003 study. A new white paper based on the study provides an HVAC assessment program for safe school reopening, which "is a very important step to getting kids back into a healthy and safe environment," according to Duane Davies, president of the California chapter of SMACNA. READ MORE

If you can't smell these 2 things, you may have COVID As one of the stranger symptoms of COVID, losing your sense of smell or taste can be a dead giveaway that you've contracted the virus. In fact, a recent article in The New York Times reported that up to 87 percent of patients experience this surprising symptom.  READ MORE

30th Crisis-era Message to Contractors from Dr. Tom Schleifer: Why partial recovery is not enough? The construction market is unique in that during the entire recovery process profits are minimized by industry-wide aggressive pricing. Until full recovery is reached (when the construction market reaches the size it was when this started) the industry will suffer reduced profits from aggressive pricing competing to capture the lessor amount of work available. READ MORE

COVID-19 unraveled the workforce. Here's how to fix it. | TED2020

COVID-19 unraveled the workforce. Here's what to do about it. "We are living through the tech-enabled unraveling of full-time employment itself," says anthropologist Mary L. Gray. As the pandemic exposes and accelerates the shift to on-demand online labor, Gray takes us inside the jobs being created to solve the problems artificial intelligence can't handle -- and explains why our economic recovery hinges on extending essential benefits to all workers. WATCH HERE

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