What the AEC market is asking for
We review AEC market demand every day and report what it means for how firms plan and execute.
Eight AEC disciplines share one occupation code. They land in all three hiring-difficulty bands.
Atlas resolves hiring difficulty for 34 AEC disciplines through 19 federal occupation codes. Civil Engineers alone covers eight of them, from the easiest band to the hardest, and three of the seven hard-band disciplines sit inside it.
Read the analysis →Three levels of government, three different words for the same bench
We counted the open work across five public feeds. 115 of the 128 open solicitations are state or local and only 13 are federal, and the three lanes barely share a vocabulary.
Read the analysis →New Jersey's architecture work asks for estimating more often than architecture
New Jersey says out loud what it wants from a firm. Across 17 open advertisements the median contract names 6 prequalification disciplines, and estimating appears in 15 of them.
Read the analysis →California is not asking firms for projects. It is asking for benches.
We read every open solicitation across Caltrans and the Los Angeles portals. 64 of the 98 open across the three sources are on-call or as-needed vehicles rather than defined projects.
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