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The foreign drafters were cheaper than America's computer-aided designers, so the companies neatly underbid their competitors.

Technically, outsourcing is just another word for subcontracting. But as a buzzword in the industry, outsourcing has become one and the same with the concept of offshore outsourcing, or offshoring, in which a company subcontracts foreign firms to handle domestic work.

it goes back to a basic human instinct — fear of the unknown.
The most extreme scenario of outsourcing's impact is enough to make any engineer shudder. If the American industry is out-priced, it could go belly up and leave a wake of unemployed engineers.

That potential loss of jobs has turned the National Society of Professional Engineers against the practice of outsourcing unless no domestic firm can provide the needed service

Some firms do it on fast-track projects because the different time zones in Asia and America allow for around-the-clock operations. Other companies outsource because they don't have the staff to perform the work in-house.

The future of outsourcing relies on what the next round of stories will be. The future of the industry relies on how it decides to use outsourcing.

If it's going to cost an owner more money because there was a quality issue in the documents that they didn't find till after construction — those are the issues that are going to manifest themselves."

Foreign firms' potential for error is the sticking point for outsourcing. It is an international practice where the burden of responsibility falls at the most local level. The company commissioning the work holds all the liability and is responsible for all of the oversight. If a drafter in Bangalore fudges the construction documents, and the resulting building has problems, it's the Wisconsin company's fault.
"There are just hundreds of things that they could be doing wrong. So the review process we'd have to do with that would be more intense."

I think firms in Wisconsin should take a firm, hard look at it. They need to really investigate it to see if there is some merit to applying it to their business strategy sooner rather than later."

The shift from in-house to offshore drafting means companies would have different people in different locations working on the same construction drawings. That concept bears both the cost of losing jobs and the benefit of saving money. America's architectural/ engineering industry would lose a link in its production chain through the elimination of positions geared toward producing drawings. If foreign companies draw America's construction documents, the people who used to draft them here will have to do something else.

Eliminating the drafting tier would also erase the traditional entry-level position for students graduating college, Hanlon said. The education community doesn't know how its students will break into the industry without the well-beaten path that starts at a computer-drafting console.

"They have to create their own attractive edge as they go out to be hired," Zimmer-man said. "Are we going to have bread lines because of it? I doubt it. People are going to have to adapt to raise their own bar."