随着越来越多的县和城市呼吁非必要的企业关闭以帮助缓解冠状病毒大流行的影响，设计专业人员已经看到了经济放缓的重大工作负载。由一家财务咨询公司。

Half of architecture firms reported fewer new design projects than expected for March, according to a报告releasedon March 27 by the American Institute of Architects.

Architects See 'Uncharted Waters'

The report, based on a survey taken on March 23 of 387 design professionals, also found that 83% of the respondents anticipate a decline in revenue for March compared with an earlier projection. More than one-third estimate that their firms' revenue will be at least 10% below expectations.

多数人（59％）预计3月份的新工作会下降，而67％的人表示他们已经看到潜在的项目缓慢或停止。新利18备用网址

AIA首席经济学家Kermit Baker说：“与大多数其他企业一样，美国建筑公司正朝着未知的水域进入未知的水域，因为经济在全球范围内，随着COVID-19的大流行作用，他们为他们提供了什么。”陈述。

展望未来，建筑师预计情况将在4月恶化，有94％的受访者预计收入会下降。大多数人预计他们的公司的四月收入将比以前的预测下降超过10％。四分之一的受访者预计损失25％。

AIA还调查了员工的工作习惯，有48％的受访者表明，现在或几乎全部公司员工现在都在远程工作，而31％的受访者报告说，只有一些员工正在这样做。

关于15% of respondents said some employees are currently unable to work at all.

大多数受访者（79％）记录了对面对面客户会议的限制，并且/或将这些限制移至虚拟平台。

受访者报告称，尽管将近一半的公司实施了与工作有关的临时旅行限制，但仅19％的公司在可预见的将来实施了严格的无旅行政策。

ASCE: Impact, But 'Interesting Adjustment'

3月24日的调查包括来自零售，制造，分销和服务公司的2,762名受访者中约有1,150名美国土木工程师协会成员，指出了50％向其他公司提供服务的“直接负面财务影响”。

The analysis says 8% of respondents work in firms of up to four employees, 20% in those with 100 to 499 staffers and 11% in companies with more than 500 employees.

大约32％的受访者报告了供应链延误，其中65％的受访者还引用了由于连锁破坏而负面的财务影响。

尽管所有受访者中有39％仅注意到长期病毒后公司的可行性的“轻度关注”，而1至4名员工的公司约有20％的人质疑他们是否可以在危机后继续运作。”公司行业Insights Inc.约有49％的仅ASCE受访者对雇主的长期生存能力表示不担心，有32％的人报告了轻度关注。

Only 6% of respondents report more than 75% of their company's employees working remotely in the last year, with 36% stating that no employees had done so in that period; about 41% said a "partial mandate" to work from home now is a "new action" taken by their employers as a result of the virus.

超过40％的仅ASCE受访者表示，他们期望其公司的技术投资中等或重大增长。

在ASCE受访者的匿名评论中，也没有详细介绍其公司，其中大约有55％的公司工作人员现在远程工作。受访者说：“这对我们来说是新的。”“这是一个有趣的调整。”

新的挑战

但是另一个人说，“在家中很难完成设计任务。我的功能与您在办公室的所有可用技术都没有相同的功能”，例如公司的VPN网络。

An ASCE member in a small firm reported difficulty now in "work for industrial plants that are not allowing non-employees on site. We acquire a majority of our jobs during site visits so this is a major concern to us." The respondent added that "as a small business, this could be detrimental but our goal is to be flexible and still keep our business open."

另一位受访者指出，病毒对“士气问题的影响，因为人们担心自己的健康，并且可能会导致减速和预算的巨大影响，从而导致员工减少和/或没有薪水的休假。”

但是一位协会成员指出，这项工作放缓“使我们能够有时间专注于更好的项目……实现我们的一些培训目标并实施新的程序思想。”新利18备用网址受访者补充说：“如果持续时间太长并打破客户的经济支持，这可能会有所不同。”

about 23% of ASCE-only respondents said their employer has a "formal plan" to address major COVID-19 employee absenteeism and 20% said the plan also addressed extended sick pay, but more than half reported their workplace has no such formal plan.

ACEC: Firms Seek Relief

一个米arch 27 survey by the American Council of Engineering Cos., found that 40% of about 794 firm respondents reported delays in request for proposals or request for qualifications awards, and a majority—58%—report project delays or cancellations due to COVID-19. Given the economic uncertainty, design firms are looking for relief from public and private institutions.

The survey found that 87% of responding firms have not received any assistance from creditors.

The newly enacted stimulus legislation—the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (CARES)—has some assistance that engineering firms had sought. It includes a provision allowing small businesses to stop paying payroll taxes through the end of December, which is expected to bolster firms’ cash flows.

该法案还包括一个nother ACEC recommendation—providing funds to extend and increase unemployment insurance payments.

Social distancing and virtual work are the top work-continuation methods, with 84% of respondents reporting each, according to the survey.

“The global response to the coronavirus pandemic is unprecedented in its scope and we are still in the early days of measuring its impact on the engineering industry,” said Linda Bauer Darr, ACEC president and CEO.

她补充说：“我们的成员最重要的业务之一是现金流问题。”“国会在《 CARES法案》中解决了其中一些问题，但必须采取更多措施来保护工程公司免受COVID-19响应行动造成的长期破坏的影响。”

首席执行官：Riak的收入？

同时，在对共同19的COVID-19影响响应分析中，来自128个主要设计和设计建造公司首席执行官由纽约市的金融管理咨询公司AEC Advisors Inc.表示新利18备用网址。

关于one-third of respondents are CEOs of firms that rank among the leading 100 companies on ENR's Top 500 Design Firms list, says AEC Advisors senior principal Josh Lahre.

约有54％的首席执行官还说，至少有5％或更多的项目预计将很快面临延误，有70％的受访者期望COVID新利18备用网址-19，将“负面影响” 2020年的收入在5％至20％之间。

拉尔说：“我们预计这一数字在未来几周内我们随后的调查会增加。”“虽然降低10％的一流收入听起来并不多，但没有降低任何成本，但假设总收入的利润率为10％，则可以消除100％的利润率。”新利18备用官网登录

Respondents said project delays were worst in private sector work, noted by 52% of respondents, with state and municipal sectors next at 29%, but few delays for those with federal clients. Projects in New York, California, Massachusetts, Washington state and Texas were most delayed, the CEOs said. California ranked at the top, with 28 respondents ranking it first and 42 ranking it among the top three worst states,

约有10％的CEO已实施裁员，有9％的人表示正在进行休假，约有25％的人表示计划了一项或两种策略。

AEC顾问说，大多数没有举报当前裁员或休假计划的受访者“可能正在等待更重要的[项目]延误”，这将超过其总数的5％

一位全球设计公司的首席执行官表示：“这可能是我们在领导中必须面临的最复杂的问题之一。”“一切都相关。很难隔离一件事。您必须擦洗积压的各个方面，并为接下来会发生的事情做好准备计划，他说这可能是“四个月或两年的运动”。

首席执行官还敦促同行“对我们的行业保持警惕”，这可能会产生“一种错误的安全感。归根结底，我们明年最糟糕的一年可能是明年的 - 您必须假设这一点。”

但是，他补充说，“现在有很多事情要做”，包括审查公司在繁荣时期很难清除的公司的表现不佳部分。