After Months of Falling, AIA's Architecture Billings Index Jumps Up 6 Points

After a near-constant drubbing over the last four months, there’s finally been a break from the bad news, with the American Institute of Architects just having released their latest Architecture Billings Index. Instead of yet another slide back into financial uncertainty, the numbers not only went up, but did so to a dramatic degree. Last month the Index had landed at 45.1 (anything above 50 indicates growth across the industry, and anything below means, well, the exact opposite).