Guys, settle down, re-read the article, the context of the words "on hold" is not the same as we use the phrase in our emporis-based world. They have 3 sentences talking about how work will continue, and one sentence that uses the phrase "on hold", which probably means its someone who isn't aware the phrase "on hold" panics some small group of skyscraper nuts somewhere on the internet. In most people's vernacular that phrase doesn't mean "all work stopping until further notice", but when used with sentences about how work will continue, albeit slowly, means exactly that, work is continuing, just not at a significant rate. In other words, its essentially on hold, not literally...
I hate having to constantly calm you guys down every time you hear a sound bite that rubs you the wrong way, settle and read things a little more thoroughly and less literally...