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1	Architectural Majors May Have Trouble Finding Work A new study conducted by Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce shows that recent college graduates with degrees in architecture have higher unemployment rates than most other majors. Recent college graduates with ...	Jan 10, 2012 7:53:00 AM
2	Architects in Europe The European Architectural Barometer is a quarterly study of 1,200 architects in Europe. Architects from the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the Netherlands participated in the quarter three study, which focused on architects’ ...	Dec 1, 2011 10:25:00 AM
3	Housing Market Trends Continue After the housing market bubble burst several years ago, consumer preferences for neighborhoods and communities changed. A recent study, the AIA Home Design Trends Survey, has confirmed that these post-bubble trends are continuing. What are these ...	Dec 16, 2010 7:50:00 AM
4	U.S. Transportation Infrastructure Needs Improving In September 2009, 80 transportation experts met for three days to discuss the transportation infrastructure in the United States, and their conclusions are troubling, to say the least. The highly-credentialed group concluded that if innovative reforms ...	Oct 6, 2010 10:16:50 AM
5	Construction Industry Sees Job Gains The construction industry may be starting to see glimmers of hope, adding 14,000 jobs in April, reports the AGC. The April numbers mark the first back-to-back monthly gains since 2006. 29 states gained jobs, the AGC’s chief economist, Ken Simonson ...	May 27, 2010 9:00:00 AM
6	Economy Forces Design Professionals to Rethink Their Business Models Unless you’ve been living on Mars, in a cave, under a rock, with your fingers in your ears, you’re well aware of the troubled U.S. economy. All market sectors have been affected. The design and construction industry has taken big hits in terms ...	Feb 1, 2010 9:38:00 AM
7	Office and Commercial Construction Spending May Fall 13% Kermit Baker, Harvard economist and advisor to The American Institute of Architects, forecasts that in 2010 construction spending on hotels, office buildings, and retail centers could be in a second year of decline. He predicts about a 13% ...	Jan 28, 2010 9:39:00 AM
8	Monitoring Government Construction Statistics Can be Revealing Predicting the future of the economy is more an art than a science. Documenting the performance of the economy, however, is simply an accounting process, and like much of accounting can indicate disheartening results. The Commerce Department recently ...	Jan 13, 2010 8:49:50 AM
9	Small Business Feeling the Squeeze of the Poor Economy The current recession has many owners of small businesses reeling. Even prior to the recession, small business owners found it difficult to pay for the annual rise in health insurance premiums for their employees. The soaring premiums leave many ...	Feb 11, 2009 10:03:00 AM