IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Designing Buildings on the IHBC-SAHGB Research Award and the AJ on sector competition.
DB features:
SAHGB-IHBC Heritage Research Award 2023, enter before Sept 1
Anna Highfield writes for the AJ:
Architects are facing growing threats from competition with non-architects and undercutting by other firms as the projects market slumps.
In its latest Future Trends report for June, the RIBA notes a clear ‘dip in architects’ confidence’ over the pipeline of work….
The RIBA added that the analysis was ‘anecdotal’, based on experiences shared by practices, but one of the new wave of market disruptors backed up the findings….
… Smaller firms admit they are struggling to stand their ground on fees, in the face of rising interest rates and increasing ‘pushback’ from clients….
Read more…. (Click on the title link in the Linkedin post to access the article)
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