With the recent economic recovery, the AIA is feeling hopeful about future construction spending and architect opportunities.
Read MoreNew Industry Data Reveals Post-Pandemic Growth Opportunities
After dealing with COVID-19 for over a year, major architect organizations gathered data that reveals future post-pandemic growth opportunities.
Read MoreHere’s a Summary of the AIA’s New K-12 Student Career Guide
The AIA recently released a new “career guide” for K-12 students. To help increase awareness, we made a simplified version of it that’s easy to share.
Read MoreNew AIA Course Program Aims to Diversify Industry Leadership
This week, the American Institute of Architects announced the launch of a new initiative called Next to Lead that aims to bring more “ethnically diverse women into AIA leadership positions.” Read on to learn more about this program’s eligibility, and why the AIA found it necessary to create it in the first place.
Read MoreControversial “Beautiful Building” Executive Order Overturned
Last week, President Biden revoked the “Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture” executive order. Here’s what was in the order, and why it was it overturned.
Read MoreAn Architect’s Guide to Creating Safe Polling Places
Despite the popularity of mail-in voting in the US this year, millions of people will still be voting in-person at the polls in less than a week. According to the CDC, people who vote in-person on a single day are at higher risk for COVID-19 because of the larger crowds and longer wait times. With that in mind, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) is hoping that election administrators take advantage of their recently released “safe polling place” resource guide.
Read MoreAIA Criticizes New Fair Housing Ruling
HUD’s decision to end the 2015’s Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing (AFFH) rule has drawn criticism from many groups, including the AIA.
Read MoreAIA’s Tips for Career Resilience
Despite the economic uncertainty facing the world right now, the American Institute of Architects (AIA) wants to help all architecture professionals keep their careers going strong. They recently hosted a webinar where they spoke to four panelists who lived and worked through the last Great Recession. Here are the highlights from their advice on how to have career resilience during difficult times.
Read MoreAging in Place: Part 4 | 4 HSW Credits
No one likes to change, not even us. We have set routines, set ways to do things, habits we cannot break if we tried, and even ways we’ve developed to do things based on many, many years of experience learning to get it right. Regardless of whether another way seems like a better choice to you, if we haven’t decided on the necessity of change ourselves, nothing will be done.
Read MoreAging in Place: Part 3 | 4 HSW Credits
Balance will become a significant issue. This problem can arise from a loss of physical strength, effects of different medications, cognitive and visual impairments. Without thinking through a strategy to prevent or at least minimize falls, an issue with balance can become a significant health hazard.
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