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Design Firms Brace as Bottom Falls Out of Building Market

Publication Date: 01-JUL-09
Author: Steve Setzer
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What a difference a year makes. In the summer of 2008, most of the leading architecture and engineering firms in the general building sector were flush with work and times were good. There may have been clouds on the economic horizon and concerns that the fevered pace was unsustainable, but no one predicted the economic tsunami that hit in the fall of 2008.
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