The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued version 2.0 of its Guidance on the Essential Critical Infrastructure Workforce: Ensuring Community and National Resilience in COVID-19 Response. The Guidance now includes construction, building product manufacturing and its supply chain as essential critical infrastructure.
“While not a federal directive, this recognition is critical to encouraging and supporting state and local jurisdictional determinations to maintain construction and building product manufacturing operations, including supply chains, as essential critical infrastructure,” the Window & Door Manufacturers Association wrote in a statement. WDMA strongly urged CISA to recognize these industries as essential critical infrastructure in communications with CISA on March 24.
WDMA worked collaboratively with numerous construction industry allies to assure that construction, building product manufacturers and their supply chains were included in this latest Guidance from CISA, the Association reports.
