Structuresblog » business http://www.structuresblog.com all about structural engineering Tue, 05 Apr 2011 18:11:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Blueprint from India – More architecture firms are offshoring http://www.structuresblog.com/2007/04/18/blueprint-from-india-more-architecture-firms-are-offshoring/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=blueprint-from-india-more-architecture-firms-are-offshoring http://www.structuresblog.com/2007/04/18/blueprint-from-india-more-architecture-firms-are-offshoring/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:25:12 +0000 ketan http://www.structuresblog.com/2007/04/18/blueprint-from-india-more-architecture-firms-are-offshoring/ Has anyone seen the firsthand effects of outsourcing in the architecture/engineering industry? Of course we’ve been hearing about it for years in computers and IT, but this article from Businessweek suggests that it’s already begining for architects.

The article profiles Cadforce, a company out of California that has resources in India to help them with projects in the US. The company outsources the more time-consuming and technical tasks, such as creating blueprints from schematics, which allows their architects here to focus on design.

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