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Construction Time: 2006 Poised to be the Best Year for Nonresidential construction time Since 2000
The Architecture Billings Index (ABI), a leading economic indicator of nonresidential construction time activity, showed growth for the eleventh consecutive month in November, according to the monthly report from The American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Due to the approximately six month lag time between billings for architectural services and construction time activity, nonresidential construction time activity is expected to be a strong economic sector in much of 2006.
'It is especially noteworthy that if architecture firms report even modest billings gains in December, 2005 will be the first year since 2000 that that gains were reported every month of the year,' said AIA Chief Economist Kermit Baker, PhD, Hon. AIA.
New Achitectural Technology Program Emphasizes Green Building Design
In response to a world grappling with finite supplies of fossil fuels and other resources, Centennial College has launched a new full-time program in architectural technology that emphasizes sustainable building design and construction time.
"Sustainability is the important next direction in architectural design and construction time," says Ted Rosen, an architect and program coordinator at Centennial.
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What the Editors expected—for use in some later issue-were construction time pictures as only Bourke-White can take them. What the Editors got was a human document of frontier life which, to them at least, was a revelation. |
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