Although a steady backlog of work is expected to keep commercial contractors busy in Milwaukee next year, the city’s tight labor market could continue to drive up costs even as an economic slowdown looms, according to a recent report.

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Another sluggish month for U.S. architecture billings is stoking fears of a slowdown in future design and construction activity, but local market watchers don’t expect the bottom to fall out anytime soon.

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When Sen. Fred Risser visited his father, a Wisconsin state senator, in the Capitol as a young boy, attendants operated the elevators, lawmakers had tobacco spittoons in their offices and there was not a single female senator.

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Despite a persistent labor shortage and other difficulties, those who make their living in construction have more good than bad to look forward to in 2016.

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Billings at U.S. architecture firms declined in March, the third drop in five months.

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The Architecture Billings Index increased by 1.9 points in January.

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The Architecture Billings Index for July shows an increase in design activity.

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Architecture billings were up in May after a setback in April, according to the American Institute of Architects.

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Advocates of a uniform code for commercial buildings are developing a compromise they concede would remove much of the uniformity from their proposal.

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Milwaukee’s Clock Shadow Building is one of the American Institute of Architects’ Top Ten Green Projects for 2013.

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