| Architecture Pays
Off, Study Shows Architects' salaries are increasing faster than those of other
professionals, according to the 2005 American Institute of Architects' Compensation
Report.
Average salaries at architecture firms have increased more than
10 percent between 2002 and 2005, approximately a 3.3 percent annual compound
growth rate. These figures represent a slight increase in compensation considering
that professional salaries in the U.S. economy grew by only 2.5 percent on average
over the same period, according to U.S. Department of Labor figures.
"What
is interesting about this data is that salaries for architecture positions have
increased more than 10 percent during the same timeframe that there has been a
recession in nonresidential construction," said AIA Chief Economist Kermit
Baker.
"During the recession of the early 1990s, compensation for
architecture positions did not even keep pace with inflation. That is no longer
the case, as evidenced by increased compensation for architecture positions totaling
almost 50 percent between 1996 and 2005. This news is very encouraging for the
architecture profession as a whole."
Midwest Students Get Scholarships Vladimir
Borun, a recent graduate Niles West High School in Skokie, has received the Bill
and Wanda Baker Scholarship from the Doylestown, Pa.-based National Demolition
Association.
Borun received the $5,000 award for demonstrating a commitment
to serving the community while maintaining a high level of academic achievement.
He
is using the scholarship to fund his education at Oakton Community College in
Des Plaines. He will enroll as a junior at DePaul University in Chicago in fall
2006.
Chicago-based Brandenburg Industrial Service had nominated him.
Matthew
Woodruff, a high school student in Fond du Lac, has received a Roofing Industry
Scholarship from the Rosemont-based National Roofing Foundation.
The $1,000
per year for up to four years of undergraduate study is awarded to employees,
immediate family or immediate family of the Rosemont-based National
Roofing
Contractors Association contractor members based on academic record and other
factors.
Woodruff is the son of Jeffery Woodruff, roofing supervisor of
W.J. Woodruff Roofing Contractors Inc., also in Fond du Lac.
Howley Named Heating-Cooling
Chief Don Howley, technical sales representative with Alsip-based Affiliated
Steam Equipment Co., was elected president of the Chicagoland Better Heating-Cooling
Council.
Other elected officers include First Vice President John Stern,
vice president with Bellwood-based Bert C. Young & Sons Corp.; Second Vice
President Kevin Bailey, vice president with Willowbrook-based Fluid/Air Products;
Secretary/Treasurer June Tucker, project manager with Schaumburg-based International
Piping Systems.
Andy Usher, vice president with Brookfield-based Ideal
Heating Co., remains on the board as the council's past president.
Pride
Moves Into Central St. Louis Citing the downtown's revitalization, Pride
of St. Louis, a labor-management group, has moved into the Shell Building downtown.
The group had previously been in suburban Clayton.
Pride is reportedly
the nation's oldest voluntary construction labor-management organization. The
group has worked to maintain harmony and build cooperation among St. Louis-area
AFL-CIO construction craft workers, contractors, construction buyers, architects,
engineers and suppliers.
Bohl
Named AGC Lawyer David Bohl was named general counsel of the Associated
General Contractors of Wisconsin in Madison.
He taking over some duties
that Teresa Mueller previously did. She is reducing her schedule to part-time.
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