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Thursday, May 7th, 2020

Article source: ConstructConnect

OxBlue is a company that sells live-feed cameras for construction sites, to monitor worker movements and equipment flows, to guard against theft, and to record daily progress for contractors and owners ‒ sometimes letting the public in on the spectacle as well, by means of an Internet link ‒ as structures take shape.

With the onset of the coronavirus crisis, many construction projects are being shunted onto sidetracks. Based on algorithms tied to what its cameras are seeing, OxBlue has calculated an index of ongoing construction activity levels across America. Presently, according to OxBlue, the six states with the sharpest declines in onsite work are: Pennsylvania, Michigan, Massachusetts, Washington, New York and Ohio.

Thursday, May 7th, 2020

Article source: ConstructConnect

The website ‘flightradar24.com’ (dashboard heading ‘Statistics’) records that the number of commercial flights globally (as a 7-day moving average) on March 12, 2020, was 101,297. From mid-March on, there was a rapid falling off, so that by April 12 (one month later), the figure had descended to just 29,442, a giant-sized drop of -71%. (‘Commercial’ flights are defined as passenger, cargo, charter and some business-jet flights. Excluded are glider, helicopter, ambulance and some military excursions.)

Latest month-to-month airport departure statistics (number of actual flights) from ‘flightradar24.com’ show the following: Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport, -59%; Chicago O’Hare, -66%; Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson, -69%; Los Angeles International Airport, -72%; New York John F. Kennedy, -81%; Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport, -82%; Toronto’s Pearson International, -83%; and N.Y.’s LaGuardia, -92%.