In the age of the Coronavirus, it is easy enough for the typical office worker to work at home, avoiding coworkers and customers as if they have the plague — and still carry on with all the communication and collaboration tools technology can offer. However, if your role or responsibility involves getting in front of the public to get their buy-in and support on huge infrastructure projects, like a downtown renovation, a train station or sports stadium, meetings with key stakeholders, interviews with the media and the public, your job just became a lot harder.
The multi-national WSP Global, a specialist in large scale urban, transportation and energy projects, has some advice on how city planners and construction firms can cope during the current COVID-19 pandemic with this whitepaper, Online Public Engagement & Collaboration.
WSP’s portfolio includes buildings in the new World Trade Center, Boston’s Seaport and the Mercedes Benz Stadium in Atlanta, to name just a few. WSP employs 49,000 people worldwide and has 150 offices worldwide. There was an ongoing discussion to merge with AECOM to create an infrastructure creation behemoth before plans were sidelined by the COVID-19, according to ENR.
Take it to the web, says WSP white paper on how to maintain a public presence despite COVID-19. (Picture courtesy of WSP.)
Public agencies, planners and their contractors who had relied on combining physical attendance at events and meetings with a social media and…