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In March 2020, most AEC firms made an abrupt shift from nearly universal on-site or in-office work to remote work in response to the global health crisis. Today, with COVID-19 cases on the decline and more than half of the US adult population fully vaccinated, many of our clients are planning to safely reopen their…
It’s award season for major architectural prizes: the American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Gold Medal and the international Pritzker Architecture Prize. These are considered the highest honors for an architect. The goal of the Pritzker Prize is “to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision,…
I had the pleasure of participating in a Professional HR Roundtable last week and during the conversation, someone mentioned Sir Winston Churchill’s statement “never let a good crisis go to waste!” and I thought how appropriate. In looking back over the last year, the amount of progress that has been made in a profession where…
2,080 miles apart, friends and CMG colleagues Tiffany Berergon (New Orleans) and Kate Murphy (Seattle) bonded instantaneously four years ago over a love of analog snail mail and an appreciation for life’s little moments. This bond has only strengthened this past year, and while we have continued to stay in touch with pen and paper,…
When the pandemic lockdown first happened last March, I had just completed several client surveys for our AEC clients and was about to launch several more. But I had to hit pause. It seemed a bit inappropriate to be asking university facilities people about their experience with ABC firm when they weren’t even sure they…
2021 has started with a mix of excitement, fear, and relief. We’re all delighted to be here if just to get out of 2020, but we have challenges ahead. For those of us who work in creating the built environment, those challenges are both obvious and perhaps yet to be seen. We’ve all been walloped…