Issues related to firm management top the list of biggest business-related concerns for 2026.

One-third of architecture firm leaders rate increasing firm profitability as one of their top three biggest business concerns for 2025 Despite the AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score ...

Nonresidential building spending to remain sluggish through 2026, with no turnaround in sight. There is some good news and some bad news in the latest outlook for nonresidential construction spending ...

After increasing by more than 20% last year, spending on nonresidential buildings will see a much more modest 4% increase in 2024, at a pace that will slow to just over 1% growth in 2025. Spending on ...

After twenty months of declines, architecture firm billings were flat in October. The AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score for the month was 50.3, meaning that the share of firms that ...

Deborah Berke, FAIA, LEED AP, is a transformative figure in architecture whose career spans over four decades. She has combined design excellence, academic leadership, and a commitment to social and ...

The 2025 COTE® Top Ten program is in its 28th year and highlights projects that meet the AIA Committee on the Environment's rigorous criteria for social, economic, and ecological value. An AIA award ...

Despite being the second-largest ethnic group in the United States, Hispanic and Latinx individuals only account for about 5% of AIA’s total membership, according to the most recent AIA demographics ...

After increasing in 2023 and 2024, construction spending for nonresidential buildings is projected to slow dramatically in 2025 and 2026. After increasing by almost 20% in 2023 and another 6% last ...

Architecture firms reported declining billings for the eighteenth consecutive month in July. While the ABI/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score of 48.2 for the month indicates that fewer ...

Business conditions at architecture firms remained soft to close out 2023, with an AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) score of 45.4 for December (any score below 50 indicates declining ...

Learn how to make smart climate action decisions at the least cost in this architect's guide on the renovation and adaptive reuse of existing buildings. About half of the U.S. building stock is over ...