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Here is an article of interest, thanks to our colleagues at Design Intelligence.
The Dangers of Designing in Foreign Lands
By Eugene R. Scheiman and James P. Cramer
The slow recovery in the U.S. marketplace for architecture, design, and engineering services has been outpaced by global growth. In 2010, the top 30 U.S.-based practices in architecture invoiced nearly $1.7 billion in service fees alone. These fees have seen annualized increases of approximately 29 percent since 1998, when DesignIntelligence and the Greenway Group began their research on global practice. Architecture, architecture-engineering, and engineering-construction professional practices and corporations are growing in market share outside North America.
The complexities of practice are varied from country to country, and risk is involved, including legal and ethical dilemmas.
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Douglas Paul
Director, Knowledge Communities
The American Institute of Architects
Washington DC
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