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ARTICLE · 02 APRIL 2020

COVID-19: Is Your Construction Contract Prepared For The Disease?

Communities—big and small—are trying to adapt to the spread of COVID-19. You are perhaps reading this at home …

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Communities—big and small—are trying to adapt to the spread of COVID-19. You are perhaps reading this at home ...

"How will our construction project be affected?"

"What if the masks reserved for concrete mixers are commandeered for use by the local hospital?"

The situation is evolving daily and the final consequences remain hard to predict. Construction projects connect many economic participants, locally and abroad, and reports already indicate that the global supply chain will take months to recover from the current strain on the system. 

A logical assumption is that COVID-19 is a force majeure, also known as an Act of God. Much has been written about force majeure and contracts just in the last week. Dentons' global website already includes a couple of articles from our own colleagues on this topic1. We do not propose to repeat general guidance based on the way courts have interpreted the concept of force majeure. Instead, we offer the below checklist of

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