Drawings waiting on a reviewer, estimates going out late, a project that needs three more engineers next month and not next year. Connext builds dedicated engineering teams mechanical, electrical, civil, design and estimation working inside your drawing standards and your software.
Quick answer
Engineering outsourcing is the use of an offshore team for the technical production work a project runs on: modeling, detailing, drafting, quantity take-offs and estimate build-up. Connext recruits by discipline, employs the team in-country and provides the secure workstations and facility; the team works inside your drawing standards and your software. Your engineers keep the design decisions and the sign-off.
It produces the technical work your project runs on: models, drawings, calculations, take-offs and cost estimates, built to your standards and reviewed by your engineers.
Engineering work splits into two parts. There is the part that requires a licensed professional to accept responsibility, and there is the much larger part that requires technical skill, software proficiency and time: modeling, detailing, drafting, quantity take-offs, estimate build-up, revision cycles.
The second part is where projects get stuck, and it is the part an offshore team takes on. Your engineers keep the design decisions and the sign-off. They stop spending the week on revisions.
A mechanical engineer who details assemblies is not a civil engineer who runs feasibility studies. Candidates are screened against the discipline, the deliverable and the software you use.
Connext is the employer of record. Payroll, benefits, statutory obligations and local labor compliance sit with us, in the country where the person works.
Your title blocks, your layer conventions, your model templates, your file structure. Connext provides the workstations and the secure facility, and does not store your drawings or project data offshore.
A country-based manager runs the day-to-day so your project engineers review deliverables instead of managing a remote team.
Five disciplines cover most of what gets built. Most firms start with the one that is holding up delivery right now.
Design and detailing of components, machines and systems. Produces complex blueprints for machines, engines and tooling, builds detail-level models, and supports assembly, testing and troubleshooting. Scope runs from simple devices to facility machinery and structural equipment.
Design and development of electrical systems and equipment — power generation, motors, distribution. Builds electrical BIM models alongside construction operations teams and tests systems against safety, reliability and design specification.
Design and planning of infrastructure: buildings, bridges, roads, water and sewage. Runs feasibility studies, evaluates environmental impact and regulatory compliance, coordinates with contractors, and tests construction materials against specification.
Complex blueprints, detail-level models, drawing review, take-offs and proposed action plans. Works in AutoCAD, Navisworks, BIM and Revit, and flags where a model needs a design change to meet the requirement.
Cost estimates built from project plans and specifications: reviews drawings, assesses scope and site conditions, solicits subcontractor and supplier bids, and builds the materials, labor and equipment estimate to your company’s estimating procedure.
Building software rather than infrastructure? Software engineering teams — backend, frontend, QA, DevOps, mobile and data — are staffed through IT & Development.
Engineering backlogs do not stay inside engineering. They move to the schedule, and the schedule has money attached to it.
The revision cycle. A drawing set waiting three days for a markup to be incorporated is three days the fabricator, the contractor and the next trade are all waiting too.
The bid. An estimate that is not ready is a project you do not bid on, or one you bid with padding because there was no time to build it properly.
Your licensed engineers. The people you need on design decisions and sign-off spend the week drafting, detailing and chasing take-offs.
This is the question that decides whether the arrangement works. Deliverables, not hours.
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Detail-level 3D models, assembly drawings, electrical BIM models and coordinated drawing sets, produced in your templates with your title blocks and layer standards.
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Material, labor and equipment quantities pulled from the drawing set, built into an estimate that follows your company’s estimating procedure — not a generic format.
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Feasibility studies, load and sizing calculations, environmental impact assessments, and material testing analysis against design specification.
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Markups incorporated, clashes resolved, drawings reissued. The volume work that sits between a design decision and a buildable set.
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AutoCAD, Revit, Navisworks and BIM are the ones Connext staffs against by default. If your firm runs something else, the role is screened against that instead.
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A set is behind and the schedule will not move. One or two detailers clear it, and the team stays for steady-state production.
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A pursuit needs estimating capacity you do not have this quarter. Estimators ramp for the bid cycle rather than for a permanent headcount decision.
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You won the work and need production capacity before the schedule starts, which is faster than a domestic engineering hire will move.
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Contractors with no continuity, no manager and no accountability for the drawing standard. Connext takes over the staffing and the management.
