London leads surge in confidence to pre-pandemic levels

RIBA 66 Portland Place

Source: Philip Vile

But RIBA cautions positivity could prove short-lived

Architects across all sectors expect workloads to grow in the coming months for the first time since the pandemic began.

RIBA’s Future Trends survey for February found architects were positive about workloads over the next three months, although the institute warned the crisis in Ukraine could yet render this positivity short-lived.

All sectors, practice sizes and regions demonstrated a positive outlook, with 32% of practices overall expecting workloads to increase. Just 10% of practices said they expected workloads to decrease, while 58% expect them to stay the same.

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