Would all ArCH members please take a look at our website menu and look at FOCUS AREAS.  When you click on that, you will see several suggested Focus Groups to address those Focus Areas.  Oh, you might say: “You mean that I might have to serve on one or more of these committees to solve these issues?”  Well, ArCH doesn’t exactly have paid minions to do our bidding.  ArCH = US.  You and me and all of us.  In order to figure out how all of us want to address the issues that concern us, WE are all going to have to discuss it with others among us and SOLVE the problem with suggested courses of action.  Preferably for “0” cash or reasonably minor expenditures.  We haven’t even had our first election and have not yet taken in any dues yet.  So: be realistic about approaches.

Everyone: please comment on our Blog here, to this post, as to what other, additional Focus Areas you believe ArCH needs to address and make sure that YOU are prepared to do something about that, by at least serving or chairing that committee.  And if you are interested in one of the posed Focus Groups, please e-mail: Rand@HomeArchitects.com and he will put your name on that group.

Thanks!

After only being active for about 3 or 4 days, our ArCH website is on Page 2 of Google for our CEUs for Licensed Architects page, just above the AIA of NYC.  How about that?

I just punched up a few SEO things, so my guess is that will continue to rise, until we are on page 1.  The AIA is #1.

The difference is: those that we list are Free and mainly online.

Friend, co-founder of ArCH, and licensed architect Perry Cofield has recently been working with Job Corps across the USA.  He evaluates existing Job Corps facilities along with a team of engineers and inputs that information into the Job Corps facilities software, to help them assess conditions and evaluate future improvements.

Perry explained that the Job Corps was established by Sargent Shriver.  His son, Mark Shriver, congratulated recent Job Corps graduates on August 24, 2012 in Washington, D.C. on National Job Corp Commencement Day.  The program acquired portions of old military bases, unoccupied seminaries and other facilities decades ago, in the Lyndon Johnson era.  The purpose is to house vocational students in dormitories and have classrooms and cafeterias and other facilities available to help train America’s youth to become what they want to be, in a vocational context.

For more information on the US Department of Labor’s Job Corps, see:
US Job Corps

Congratulations on your good work there, Perry!  America thanks you!

Just one more example of the kind of professionals we have among our ArCH membership.

Check out this good news from Barclays:

This means, that by 2015, the USA economy could be cranking back up again.  Yay!

Hello ArCH Folks,

I’ve not seen anybody else posting anything yet, or making comments, which tells me that the interface might need tweaking.  As our website programmers have explained it to me, it is:

You are now welcome to register as a Subscriber to this blog, then Log-in to begin leaving comments to other’s posts. You can immediately become a Subscriber, allowing you to make comments, however Admin needs to recognize you as a full member before upgrading your blog status to Contributor, so that might take a few hours, depending on where Admin is. Once you are recognized as a Contributor, you can then begin creating your own new topics and Posting them here (called Posts on WordPress sites, which this is).