Arb reports 50% plunge in applications from EU architects

最新数据显示，去年申请加入Arb的欧盟建筑师数量下降了50%。

The Architects Registration Board received just 477 applications via the so-called “EU route” last year.

In 2019 the figure was 961, itself a brief recovery followingtwo years of declineafter the Brexit referendum. Back in 2016 the number of EU architects who applied to join the register – a requirement of working in the UK – was 1,232.

2020年是全球疫情和英国退出欧盟主导的一年，同比下降50%，是迄今为止最大的降幅。

The figures, contained in Arb’s latest annual report published yesterday, tally with anecdotal evidence from numerous practices over the last five years that they are seeing fewer approaches from European job seekers.

Pascall & Watsonsaid the number of CVs it received from EU citizens in 2018 dropped markedly, whileRSHP,Fosters,Herzog & de MeuronandMakehave also flagged concerns and some opening offices on the continent.

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Arb’s report revealed that overall the number of architects joining the register last year dropped by 23%.

Fractionally more than 1,830 architects were added to the register in 2020, compared with more than 2,360 in 2019.

But the total number on the register remained stable because the number booted off fell. Just 1,643 were expunged by Arb for administrative reasons in 2020, compared with more than 2,000 in 2019. Most of these, 902, were for non-payment of the annual fee. Seven architects were permanently erased from the register after disciplinary proceedings and four were suspended.

This meant the total number of architects registered with Arb in January – some 2,340 – held steady at just 200 less than the year before, or 1%.

英国脱欧对申请数量的影响很明显。目前尚不清楚的是，无薪休假计划是阻止了还是仅仅推迟了该行业的经济外流。政府的冠状病毒紧急挽留计划于去年3月推出，预计将于9月底最终结束。