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Specialties that pay

• Healthcare and lab design

  Complicated codes, deep-pocketed clients, steady work.

• Building information modeling

  Running the three-dimensional model the whole project team works from. Firms fight over people who are genuinely good at this.

• Sustainability and energy modeling

  Green building certification credentials are cheap to get and asked for on public projects.

• Historic preservation

  A niche with federal tax credit work attached to it.

• Code and zoning consulting

  Unglamorous, well paid, and there is never enough of it.