Architects and engineers have appealed to Kerala government to allow them to open offices with minimum strength so that the construction industry is able to achieve a semblance of normality amid COVID-19 lockdown triggering serious disruptions and losses1

Chairman of Indian Institute of Architects L. Gopakumar said that there were restrictions being imposed on architects and engineers in many places even though the construction industry was allowed to carry on with its activities amid the lockdown restrictions. The architects and engineers were an integral part of the building industry and without them the projects would get stuck, he said.

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• 1. Building industry sources said that an entire array of experts, engineers, consultants, skilled and unskilled workers, material suppliers and supervisors, were needed for some projects to be on course. However, the COVID-19 lockdown and other restrictions had seen the number of workers being reduced considerably, bringing most of the projects to a standstill.