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Construction spending will continue to expand over the next year-and-a-half, but at a more “tempered” pace than before, according to the American Institute of Architects’ semi-annual Consensus Construction Forecast.

The American Institute of Architects criticized the U.S. Senate for passing S. 2012, the Energy Policy Modernization Act, which repeals energy-efficiency targets in federal buildings passed in 2007.

The Committee on the Environment of the American Institute of Architects has issued Lessons from the Leading Edge, a study of nearly 200 award-winning sustainable design projects that demonstrate COTE’s mission to “enhance both the design quality and environmental performance of the built environment.”

Over the next decade, architects will employ renewable energy and other technologies in their designs, making the design process, construction and building use all more efficient, according to a survey of leading architects by the American Institute of Architects.

The American Institute of Architects issued a statement criticizing the House of Representatives for passing a bill that will repeal targets for limiting fossil fuel consumption in federal buildings that had been passed in 2007.

With the expiration of Section 179D approaching at the end of 2013, Andrew Goldberg, the managing director of government relations and outreach for the American Institute of Architects, argues in the latest edition of the AIA’s journal that Congress should extend the provision.

Despite weather-related problems at the beginning of 2014, construction spending rose dramatically for the rest of the year, and looks to continue that trend this year and next, according to the Consensus Construction Forecast.

Spending on construction and design will increase by 5.8% in 2014 and by 8% in 2015, according to the Consensus Construction Forecast.