It is not just construction workers who have been ensnared by Ireland’s property downturn: the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) has warned of a job famine facing hundreds of new graduates who are preparing to enter the workforce.
Architects were the first professionals to be hit by the recession, with new projects drying up due to the downturn in construction.
The president of the RIAI (Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland) has warned Ireland’s young graduate architects that they face a job famine because of the property downturn.
As many as one-third of the 3,000 architects employed in Ireland could be out of work by the end of the year because of the downturn in the construction sector in Ireland and Britain,
