BCAD’s response to the SRO 15 is “Stay at Home”, to all construction workers

The BCAD Executive therefore strongly recommend the following:

• That all Builders and Contractors, our employees and the general public are encouraged to stay at home and save lives, unless their construction activity can impact positively on limiting the spread or management of COVID19, or in some way essential for the proper functioning of the State.
• That generally construction workers should stay at home, spending time with family and doing the long outstanding trade work at home with the help of family members.
• That, in the circumstances of limiting the spread and enhancing the management of COVID19, construction projects are to be generally and rightly considered as non-essential economic activities. Hence BCAD Executive requests that, until at least the conclusion of the emergency period dictated under SRO 15,
  1. local Builders and Contractors should not be engaged in, or continue, construction works as normal, neither should they endanger their employees by requiring that they attend to site work,
  2. the Public Sector shuts down its construction projects and encourages consultants to work from home, and construction workers to stay at home and save lives
  3. That where restrictions are to be imposed, some forewarning be given in order that non-essential project works are brought to a close safely and with all critical elements concluded.
• That more private sector business organisations be brought into discussions about finding more creative ways of limiting the spread and enhancing the management of COVID19.