Brexit crisis leads to job losses and project uncertainty for UK architects

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随着英国的退欧，英国建筑业也受到了冲击，英国建筑公司Make和Sheppard Robson正在裁员。

自从欧盟公投结果公布，因为项目的不确定性，这些公司透露他们已经失业了。BDP——英国最大的公司之一，也已停止招聘。

Ken Shuttleworth是伦敦Make公司的创始人，他宣布了裁掉10名员工的决定，这也回应“严重的经济波动”。该消息的发布让这家公司4亿英镑的高谭市项目引发了质疑。“我们真的很难过，由于欧洲公投的经济不确定性而让10名员工离开伦敦的工作室，”他说。

“这从来不是一个简单的决定，但必须作出这个决定，在严重的经济波动后这是不可避免的。这个行业遭遇了退欧，我们希望能尽快稳定然后重返市场。”

“在退欧投票的准备阶段，我们的一些客户似乎停顿下来喘息，”该公司的一位发言人说。“最后，工作室减少了少数的员工，差不多不到百分之二。”

Sheppard Robson——在伦敦和曼彻斯特，员工约有350人——它的几个项目已经停滞，迫使企业辞退了“少数员工”。

BDP遏制了扩大其伦敦办事处的计划。这家主要的英国公司，有超过750为员工，称这是“预防措施”。

“由于退欧造成的政治和经济的不确定性，我们决定暂时停止一切的伦敦招聘作为一项预防措施，在这个时候我们将不会进行额外的招聘，”公司说。

其他英国建筑师说，他们还没有受到离开欧盟的投票的影响，但对未来充满担忧。

“我们有超过四分之一的员工是来自欧盟，失去这些大量的人才是投票的结果，这样的想法很容易产生，也将花费很长的时间去调整，”伦敦公司Allies和Morrison的创始人Graham Morrison和Bob Allies说。

Mark Middleton是Grimshaw伦敦公司的任职股东，说他的公司已经做好了最坏的准备，虽然到目前为止没有出现公投造成的任何影响。

“虽然我们预期在项目上有一些改变或者延期，或者有意外发生，但到目前为止，关于退欧的直接影响，我们的佣金还没有任何改变，”他说。

“作为全球性的企业，我们在不同的行业和市场工作，并有信心在政治和经济变革的浪潮中保持这样良好的势头，，”AHMM的合作创始人Simon Allford回应这种观点。“至今我们没有丢工作，没有裁员，”他告诉Dezeen。

“显然这是有趣的时期，我们在同时进行伦敦和英国的重新调整。员工法表明任何退欧后的裁员程序要经过几个月的时间进行。”

早期的报告显示，英国建筑业在短期内前景是黯淡的。

根据 Guardian报道，国家最大的房地产开发商和建筑商在上个月呈现出七年内最差的表现。英国的土地、Persimmon、Taylor Wimpey、Barratt Developments和Berkeley Group Holdings的股份全都下降超过6个点。

在2016年的6月23日星期三，英国民众投了51.9%的赞成票让其退出欧盟，投了48.9 %的票继续留在欧盟。

根据Dezeen发起的民意调查，英国著名的建筑师和设计师大多都赞成留在欧盟。

随着结果的公布，许多人走上街头抗议游行，包括数以万计的民众。

British architecture firms Make and Sheppard Robson are laying off staff, as Brexit starts to impact on the construction industry.
Both offices revealed they have made job losses since the result of the EU referendum was announced, in response to project uncertainty. BDP – one of the UK's largest firms – has also frozen recruitment.
Ken Shuttleworth, founder of London-based Make, described the decision to lose 10 staff as a response to "serious economic volatility". The news comes as the future of the firm's ￡400-million Gotham City project is called into question.
"We are truly saddened to have been forced to let go 10 people in our London studio due to the economic uncertainty surrounding the European Referendum," he said.
"It is never an easy decision to have to make, but was unavoidable in the wake of serious economic volatility. The industry is reeling from Brexit and we hope that stability will return to the markets as soon as possible."
Sheppard Robson – which employs approximately 350 people in London and Manchester – said that several of its projects have stalled, forcing the firm to shed "a very small number of staff".
"A few of our clients appeared to pause for breath in the run-up to the Brexit vote," said a spokesman for the firm. "As a result the practice released a very small number of staff equating to less than two per cent."
BDP has curbed plans to expand its London office. The major UK firm, which has over 750 employees, described the move as a "precautionary measure".
"Due to political and economic uncertainty caused by Brexit, we have decided to temporarily freeze all our London recruitment as a precautionary measure and we will not be looking to recruit additional staff at this time," it said.
Other UK architects said they had not yet been affected by the vote to leave the EU, but feared for the future.
"More than a quarter of our staff come from the EU and the thought of losing that easy access to such a rich seam of talent is a consequence of the vote that will take a long time to adjust to," said Graham Morrison and Bob Allies, founders of London-based Allies and Morrison.
Mark Middleton, managing partner for Grimshaw's London office, said the firm had prepared for the worst, although it had so far not experienced any impact from the referendum vote.
"While we anticipate some changes or delays to projects and have contingencies in place, so far we have not experienced any changes to our current commissions as a direct result of Brexit," he said.
"As a global practice we are working in diverse sectors and markets, and are confident we will continue our momentum through the tides of political and economic change."
AHMM co-founder Simon Allford echoed the sentiment. "No jobs lost yet, no redundancies," he told Dezeen.
"Clearly these are interesting times and we carry on whilst London and the UK recalibrate. And employment law suggests any post Brexit redundancy procedures would take months to initiate."
Early reports suggest a bleak short-term outlook for the UK construction industry.
The nation's biggest property developers and builders suffered their worst performance in seven years last month, according to The Guardian. Shares in British Land, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, Barratt Developments andBerkeley Group Holdings all dropped by more than six per cent.
The UK voted 51.9 per cent in favour of a British exit from the European Union and 48.9 per cent to remain at a referendum on Thursday 23 June 2016.
Leading UK architects and designers voted overwhelmingly to remain, according to a straw poll conducted by Dezeen.
Following the result, many took to the streets for a protest march that included tens of thousands of people.


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