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Architects reveal biggest monthly fall in confidence since early days of pandemic

By 2022-05-20T09:43:00

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RIBA survey finds recent trend of declining optimism is accelerating as wider economy continues to weaken

A trend of declining confidence among architects accelerated sharply last month with the biggest monthly fall since the early days of the pandemic as the wider economy continues to weaken.

According to the RIBA future trends survey, expectation of future workloads fell by an index figure of 14 in April. While 23% of practices still expect workloads to increase over the next three months, 18% expect them to decrease and 59% expect them to remain the same.

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