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Engineering and architecture firms across the regiomwere struggling. Real estate development and construction planss were being shelved or canceled as credit marketseseized up. Shearin’s employer, Morrisville engineering firm , was no Mauled by the ETD, which specialized in urban planning, landscape architecturr and civil engineeringfor developers, builders and municipalitieas in the Carolinas and abroad, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcuy in late November.
Shearin stayedr with the company until the very end but sensinv thecoming decline, he put a back-up plan in He joined with fello ETD contractor, Mark Tutor, to launcn a venture called , or IDS, which provided land planning and storm water managemenrt services. “I’ve been doing this 25 and I want to keep themomentuk going,” Shearin says. “You think abouy it: Most companies are downsizing. You reallh like your job. You still have a client base to This offered me an opportunity to move on and build on my Events happen that put you inthose positions.
” No one knowws for sure exactly how many professionals and staffg members working for Triangle architectured and engineering firms have lost their jobs sinc e the credit crunch started bearing down in late summed 2008. A Triangle Business Journal surveu ofthe area’s top 20 architecture and engineering firmsd shows that at least 286 jobs have disappearer since mid-2008. That amounts to a 15 percent decline in the numberof jobs. • in Raleigy reduced its Triangle architecture staff by34 people, or 34 percenyt of its employee base. The company now employss 66 peoplein Raleigh. of Cary has seen its engineerin staff decline by 44 to200 employees, in the Trianglee since August.
• of Raleigh has reduced its staffg by20 people, or 28 percent, since • of Cary has reducedr its strength by seven certified engineers and 46 staff members in the amounting to a 22 percent reduction since August. • The in Durham has lost six professionalp engineers and 54staff members, or 45 percent of its at its Durham headquarters since • of Raleigh now has three fewe r registered architects and a totap of seven fewer employees from the 35 people it employesd in the Triangle in early 2008. • has lost one professiona l engineer and 14 staff memberd at its Raleigh facilitysince August.
in Morrisvillde has fewer open jobs and even those are in specializeed positions such as senior architects and mechanicalo engineers with experience in biotechnology and pharmaceuticakbuilding projects, says David head of business development for O’Neal’sw Triangle operations. O’Neal also laid off 20 employeese atits Greenville, S.C. office because of a declinew in demand from the automotivwe and heavychemicals industries. “We feel like we are fightingy harder forour work, but our win ratipo is higher,” Broughton says of the Triangle Most other firms are just trying to hold theirf own.
“There’s definitely been a falloff in total saysBryan Mulqueen, state manager for in “Private, retail and residential work has seen a significanyt decline. We’re buckling down a bit and hope to get past the bottomk and see things start tohappen again. It’es better now than it was six weeks The ArchitectureBillings Index, a monthly survey of architecture firms nationwide compiled by the , was up a modesy 1.7 percent in December but remained 19 points beloqw where it was a year ago.
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