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The Architects at the University of Nottingham have teamed up with the Creative Student Network (CSN) in hope for you to understand and contribute towards the project to design and build a school in South Africa. We hope you enjoy this video! http://www.facebook.com/projectagasikolo twitter: @uonarchitects Music by Rusted Root - Send me on my way
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After a collapsing construction market significantly hampered revenue, a recovery in nonresidential and residential building construction will support growth. For these reasons, industry research firm IBISWorld has updated a report on the Architects industry in its growing industry report collection.
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Nevertheless, the construction market has recently shown signs of recovery. As a result, Architects industry revenue is expected to increase 4.7% in 2013, with demand from nonresidential construction anticipated to rise 6.0%. In addition, profit margins are expected to increase in 2013, up from a postrecession low in 2010. However, profit margins remain below the level achieved in 2008. To maintain margins, many large firms have taken cost-cutting measures, such as laying off workers. Consequently, the number of industry employees has fallen at an average 2.3% per year during the past five years. This industry is characterized by many small-scale consultants, often individual proprietors and partners, that operate in narrow geographic markets, adds Sherman. The fragmented nature of this industry is also evident when comparing the size of enterprises that have employees. The industry's low level of concentration means that no firm holds a dominant position in the market. In 2013, IBISWorld expects the number of enterprises in the industry to expand as the broader economy shows signs of a sustained recovery. During the next five years, industry concentration is not expected to increase. While more clients are expected to use larger firms that can provide a wide array of services, the number of operators is expected to counteract growth in large companies as the construction market improves.
During the next five years, industry operators will continue to benefit from improvements in the downstream construction markets. The volume of construction projects will increase as access to credit becomes more readily available for clients. Demand from nonresidential and residential construction is forecast to rise; similarly, industry revenue is forecast to increase in the five years to 2018. Industry operators will look to offer more value-added and environmentally friendly services as the level of competition grows from one-stop, full-service building and engineering firms. For more information, visit IBISWorlds Architects in the US industry report page.
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Architects plan and design residential, institutional, leisure, commercial and industrial buildings and structures by applying their knowledge of design, construction procedures, zoning regulations, building codes and building materials. This industry also provides drafting services, which includes drawing detailed layouts, plans and illustrations of buildings, structures and systems.
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31 January 2013 Last updated at 21:03 ET By Razia Iqbal BBC News
Some in the West get the impression that the Middle East offers women little in the way of equal opportunities but, in the United Arab Emirates, female architects are helping design and build their own cities.
In the past decade, the Dubai skyline has been utterly transformed, with steel and glass towers emerging out of the desert at a striking rate.
And the biggest of them all - the Burj Khalifa - puts Dubai on the world map, as the city with the tallest building in the world, its tip piercing the clouds and forcing the eye ever upwards.
It is this huge building boom which partly explains why a surprisingly disproportionate number of women are choosing to study architecture. Pallavi Dean is a startling figure on a building site - eight and a half months pregnant, wearing a shiny, pink, hard hat.
When I joined her on the site, she and I were the only women there, and I looked on in admiration as she negotiated with engineers and designers, plans in her hand and handing out instructions. Educated in the United Arab Emirates, Pallavi is in no doubt that there is a connection between the building boom and the rising number of young women studying architecture.
"The ratio is 80% women and 20% men, yet that figure is the other way around in the workforce. I've always wondered why."
In addition to working and raising a family, Pallavi Dean lectures at the American University at Sharjah, where she hopes she presents the young women with a solid role model of combining the profession with family.
The university is only 15 years old. Before the huge marble and stone campus sprang up - with its vast courtyards and a nod to Arab aesthetic in the arched windows and geometric mosaics - it was largely sand dunes.
Sitting talking to three women and two men in their final year of their five-year course, I was struck by their innate confidence. All three women - Fatima al-Zaabi, Fatma Abdulla Hussain, and Ruba al-Araji - have a determination and energy to succeed.
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IT WAS a chance to look at Tunbridge Wells with fresh eyes and share visions of how it could be transformed.
At an exhibition on Saturday, architects from in and around the town revealed their designs for key sites in Tunbridge Wells.
Concept: Gordon Park, of HazleMcCormackYoung created this vision for a bandstand at Calverley Grounds
A vision for a new university in Tunbridge Wells, from Theis and Khan Architects
A design for a 'pop-up park' on old the cinema site in Tunbridge Wells by James Robson, of Hazle McCormack Young LLP
this is what we want: Eva Gray, 5, and her sister Mia, 7 draw their ideal house for architect Michael Westlake
THEIR THOUGHTS: Part of the So Create a Difference exhibition
So Create a Difference Exibition, in Royal Victoria Place.
There was a non-stop flow of visitors to the So Create A Difference public drop-in day.
As some points it was so crowded it was difficult to see the displays in the pop-up exhibition, which was held in an empty shop in the Royal Victoria Place shopping centre.
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Washington, Feb 1 (ANI): Industrial partners including renowned architects Foster + Partners have joined with ESA to test the feasibility of using 3D printing to build a lunar base from local materials.
"Terrestrial 3D printing technology has produced entire structures. Our industrial team investigated if it could similarly be employed to build a lunar habitat," said Laurent Pambaguian, heading the project for ESA.
Foster + Partners devised a weight-bearing 'catenary' dome design with a cellular structured wall to shield against micrometeoroids and space radiation, incorporating a pressurised inflatable to shelter astronauts.
A hollow closed-cell structure - reminiscent of bird bones - provides a good combination of strength and weight.
The base's design was guided in turn by the properties of 3D-printed lunar soil, with a 1.5 tonne building block produced as a demonstration.
"3D printing offers a potential means of facilitating lunar settlement with reduced logistics from Earth," added Scott Hovland of ESA's human spaceflight team.
"The new possibilities this work opens up can then be considered by international space agencies as part of the current development of a common exploration strategy," he added.
The UK's Monolite supplied the D-Shape printer, with a mobile printing array of nozzles on a 6 m frame to spray a binding solution onto a sand-like building material.
3D 'printouts' are built up layer by layer - the company more typically uses its printer to create sculptures and is working on artificial coral reefs to help preserve beaches from energetic sea waves.
"First, we needed to mix the simulated lunar material with magnesium oxide. This turns it into 'paper' we can print with," explained Monolite founder Enrico Dini.
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There was plenty of opinion about what was needed in Tunbridge Wells at the So Create A Difference exhibition.
The architects' drawings were studied and discussed, admired and criticised by the many people who visited.
Many took the opportunity to talk in depth with architects about their ideas for Tunbridge Wells.
Organisers aimed to keep the event non-political, ensuring focus was kept on the visions of transformed grot spots which hung on the walls.
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And the atmosphere during the 10am to 4pm public drop-in day was one of "blue sky thinking" said one architect.
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IT WAS a chance to look at Tunbridge Wells with fresh eyes and share visions of how it could be transformed.
At an exhibition on Saturday, architects from in and around the town revealed their designs for key sites in Tunbridge Wells.
Concept: Gordon Park, of HazleMcCormackYoung created this vision for a bandstand at Calverley Grounds
A vision for a new university in Tunbridge Wells, from Theis and Khan Architects
A design for a 'pop-up park' on old the cinema site in Tunbridge Wells by James Robson, of Hazle McCormack Young LLP
this is what we want: Eva Gray, 5, and her sister Mia, 7 draw their ideal house for architect Michael Westlake
THEIR THOUGHTS: Part of the So Create a Difference exhibition
So Create a Difference Exibition, in Royal Victoria Place.
There was a non-stop flow of visitors to the So Create A Difference public drop-in day.
As some points it was so crowded it was difficult to see the displays in the pop-up exhibition, which was held in an empty shop in the Royal Victoria Place shopping centre.
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Architects show off their visions for the future of the town
There was plenty of opinion about what was needed in Tunbridge Wells at the So Create A Difference exhibition.
The architects' drawings were studied and discussed, admired and criticised by the many people who visited.
Many took the opportunity to talk in depth with architects about their ideas for Tunbridge Wells.
Organisers aimed to keep the event non-political, ensuring focus was kept on the visions of transformed grot spots which hung on the walls.
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And the atmosphere during the 10am to 4pm public drop-in day was one of "blue sky thinking" said one architect.
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