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76% of Architects Practices are fewer than 10 people

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Here is a breakdown of the size of RIBA Chartered architects practices by size (no. of employees). It shows that over three quarters of the 2800 chartered architects practices in the UK have fewer than 10 staff, and more than half have fewer than five.
Why is this important?
Firstly it is interesting to consider why it [...]

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RIBA President Ruth Reed in Chelmsford

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On Wednesday the new, first woman president of the Royal Institute of British Architects continued her tour of the East of England with a stop off in Chelmsford to see the new Salvation Army Citadel and to meet local architects and architecture students from Anglia Ruskin University.
Working for a Chelmsford architect myself I was [...]

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Architects who tweet – over 850 in the league

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Welcome to the 162 new additions to the Architects Twitter League. I started the league at the end of 2008 as a way of putting architects on twitter in touch with each other, I hope you meet some new contacts via the league.
You can see the full league of Architects on Twitter here.
Each architect in [...]

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Architects joining twitter peaked in Spring 09

Three months ago, with the help of Rob Annable (@eversion on twitter) I analysed the signup dates of all the architects in the Architects Twitter League. The plot showed a huge growth in architects joining twitter in early 2009, but dropping off before the summer.
Since October, another 79 architects have been found and joined the [...]

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Architects aren’t paid enough because 1: they don’t make enough money

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There is a common misconception amongst non-architect that architects are extremely well paid professionals, but this isn’t the case. In November 2007 the Office of National Statistics published a snapshot of UK Salaries which showed Architects (then earning on average just £38,559 Gross a year) were 30th in the list, behind amongst others, Fire, Ambulance, [...]

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Why Take your Network Online – PDF Download

As promised, here is a pdf version of the presentation I gave to the RIBA Stakeholder Forum last week. Download the file (1MB) by clicking the pdf logo.

You are welcome to share this pdf as you wish as long as you keep it in its entire state – this enables me to comply with [...]

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Architects: Why Take Your Network Online?

Here is the presentation I gave to the RIBA Stakeholder Forum yesterday.
Why take your Network Online?
View more presentations from Barefoot & Gilles.

If you click this link you can view direct in the Slideshare site, and read the presentation notes (there is a tab – “Notes on Slide 1″ under the presentation).
All the links on the [...]

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Taking your Network online – Living:Room

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When this entry is posted I’ll be giving my talk at the RIBA, entitled ‘Why Take Your Network Online?’. Putting together the presentation has been an education in Crowdsourcing – asking my network to help me devise the presentation.
One of the many people who helped me is Angela Carr, a Dublin Architect who has a [...]

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Staking a Claim for Web 2.0

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I’m delighted to be taking part in the RIBA Practice Stakeholder’s Forum next Tuesday 27 October at the RIBA in London, and I’m doubly pleased that the event is going to feature online technologies.
The Stakeholders Forum is an annual event that the RIBA arranges to thank all the people who serve on their committees and [...]

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Has Twitter use by Architects peaked?

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Yesterday I posted that the Architects Twitter League had reached a massive 630 members, and now we have a pretty good sample I thought it was worth doing some statistical analysis.
The massive growth of twitter in the last year seems to have been reflected, if somewhat belatedly, by a rush of architects, practices and students [...]

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