Architects remain positive despite rising cost pressures

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RIBA survey finds 31% of practices expect workloads to increase, though last year’s upwards trend has slowed

Architects remain positive about future workloads over the coming three months despite a flattening of the optimistic trend seen at the end of last year.

RIBA’s Future Trends survey for January found 31% of practices expect workloads to increase, while 55% expect them to stay the same and just 13% foresee a decrease. It found that all practice sizes are confident about future workloads.

But with the survey returning the same index for workload expectations as December, +18, it shows that the surge in optimism seen before Christmas has slowed.

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