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Originally Posted by Dean
Hope the company you work for can continue to pay you now that it has failed...  |
I don't see how more debt is going to fix the situation, and as for my company, we'll see what happens, so far we've been doing pretty good. We don't do residential or small commercial projects, which right now are taking the bigger hit. However, I did do private drafting for both of those fields and haven't gotten a single project yet this year, but that's just supplemental income
The biggest issue that we are seeing is the decline of neighborhood growth. The schools we are designing and getting permitted are being filed on the shelf for construction in the next 3-4 years when the market starts to turn around again. Fortunately with still get paid for for the work completed. Unfortunately, it's going to cost event more when the schools are finally build.
Healthcare construction demand is way up, and old people keep getting older and they are dying fast enough. Demand is going to increase significantly as baby boomers starting to reach retirement and old age set in on them.
We are currently expanding to 2 other marketing areas, higher education and government projects. The company is spending a lot of time and energy making sure that we don't have our eggs in to few baskets. We have many offices to support and they share work to even the work flow.
I've also been working myself into some strategic positions to make sure I'm not the first to go. I'm our office sustainable advocate, which is a major role in the corporate plan to conduct business and design sustainably. I'm also the cad person (god save us all) and the self proclaimed planner of all things fun. I'm not saying I'm free and clear, but so far things in my area of the work are looking pretty stable.
Edit: (I forgot to mention) I'm one of 2 people on our office that is working in BIM, using Revit. Which our company has just said they will be making standard as of 09/09/09. Because if my current role I'll be doing some of the in house training and troubleshooting until everyone else is up to speed.