Offshore MEP Design Team

The AEC industry is heavily dependent on skilled professionals to handle technical aspects of design, such as MEP (M&E) design services, MEP BIM and MEP drafting services. Highly skilled, well-qualified and affordable MEP designers, BIM technicians and CAD drafters are in demand but increasingly in short supply in developed markets, such as the USA, UK, Australia and Canada. In such countries, it is becoming increasingly popular to look for offshore teams to provide design, BIM and CAD services for such firms.

These teams supplement in-house teams and provide valuable additional resources to allow customers to handle more projects locally.

XS CAD provides engineers with retained BIM, CAD and MEP design outsourcing teams, consisting of personnel or outsourced CAD services (draftsmen, 3D modellers or MEP coordinators). We have provided retained teams to customers as part of our MEP outsourcing services in four different continents for MEP design, modelling and documentation, assisting in the design and development of projects from our offices but working to our customers’ terms of reference.

XS CAD’s retained offshore MEP teams provide numerous advantages, such as:

• Increased quality and efficiency, ensuring fast optimal performance
• Fixed monthly costs, with no overheads and no hidden fees
• Significantly reduced costs compared to on-site teams
• Highly skilled and competent resources, including qualified architects and engineers
• Control over resources and all processes, including selection and training
• Teams working on overlapping time zones/the same time zone
• Increasing team size with moderate ease, as required
• Dedicated environment which can be branded within our offices
• Dedicated communication tools and techniques for effective collaboration
• Dedicated information security and storage controls, i.e. a dedicated server with backups, if required
• Effective management of projects and status reports
• A collaborative workspace so customers and suppliers can work and share the same design data

Our experience shows that working with a firm providing MEP CAD and design outsourcing services in India offers the maximum levels of efficiency from a cost and quality perspective.

However, XS CAD endorses a thorough and detailed partner selection process to prevent outsourcing fatigue and failure. Careful assessment of the skills offered, team’s experience, leadership and the extent of processes used to undertake, collaborate and communicate with customers is of paramount importance before selecting a long-term partner. Once a partner has been selected, recruiting, training and re-training design and BIM teams then becomes critical, and it is here where XS CAD has significant advantages over other firms. Due to our UK leadership, XS CAD is typically more process and communication-driven, ensuring that projects can be managed effectively and meet the technical demands required in MEP projects.

Some of our retained teams include:

• An MEP CAD team providing MEP design drafting using Revit BIM to a global MEP consultant
• A Revit MEP drafting team providing support for prefabrication modelling and detailing for a leading North American contractor
• MEP design engineering team consisting of HVAC engineers, electrical engineers, hydraulic engineers and fire design engineers for a leading consultant in Australia
• A Revit MEP coordination team working for a leading UK-based contractor, providing support across various M&E coordination projects in London and the UK
• A large Revit MEP module fabrication team supporting a large contractor on the east coast of Australia for the provision of corridor and riser module detailing