Offshore Architectural and Engineering Services Through Washington Global Sourcing

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Offshore Architectural and Engineering Services
Through Washington Global Sourcing
Washington, DC Fall 2006
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Overview

• Key Issues Facing US Architecture and Engineering
  Firms Today
• Quality and quality control
• Alignment with core competencies
• Costs / margins
• Offshoring as a Solution and its Benefits
• Advantages of Offshoring through Washington
  Global Sourcing (WGS)
• Services Provided and Team Information
• Qualifications and Previous Work
• Contact Information

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Quality and Quality Control

• The process of designing, planning, and
  constructing buildings is intricate and costly,
  requiring large amounts of time and money to be
  spent on staff, supporting technology, and
  management
• Designing and developing an edifice requires a
  team with a wide array of talents and skill sets
• Each of these roles must be filled with capable,
  focused staff who should be trained, managed, and
  provided with the tools and techniques with which
  to perform work
• Training and managing staff is costly and very
  time intensive

Project Team
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Quality and Quality Control

• Additional time and money must be spent on
  ensuring the quality of drawings, renderings, and
  models to prevent problems from arising during
  construction
• Quality must be maintained from initial working
  drawings through the final, detailed shop
  drawings that are used by builders for
  construction
• Failure to employ experienced, well-trained
  personnel can lead to problems that result in
• Re-working and re-rendering of drawings
• Modification of original conceptual design
• Potential lawsuits arising from lack of attention
  to detail
• Since these situations must be avoided at all
  costs, firms require highly talented and
  well-trained staff to perform quality control at
  each stage of the design process
• While this is usually effective, it requires
  staff to engage in activities that, in many
  cases, are not creative, highly repetitive, and
  time consuming

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Alignment with Core Competencies

• While these activities are critical, they are
  time intensive and often less profitable than
  other design activities and may prevent firms
  from focusing on their core competencies and
  earning revenue
• These activities include
• Drafting floor plans for large,
  uniformly-designed buildings
• Engineering diagrams and schematics
• 3-D Modeling
• As more and more of this work is performed, staff
  may lose enthusiasm for work causing
• Costs to Increase Quality to Decline Profits
  to Fall

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Offshoring as a Solution and its Benefits
Key Benefits

• Looking to India for architectural services is
  the future and should be seen by firms as a
  competitive advantage rather than a trend to be
  feared or ignored
• The offshoring of business processes or specific
  steps within processes is commonplace in
  information technology, medical transcription,
  financial services, medical care, and many other
  industries
• Architecture, building design, and engineering
  are creative processes which along with a number
  of supporting activities, can be passed along or
  shared with competent and trustworthy partners,
  providing immense cost and time savings and
  numerous other benefits

Ensure Focus
Add Capabilities
Reduce Costs
Save Time

• Already, architecture and engineering firms are
  seeing the benefits of sharing the workload with
  offshore partners to save money and time and
  allow themselves to focus on their core strengths
• WGS and our providers allow firms to share work
  by providing not just the technical staff to
  perform architectural work but also an
  experienced management team to ensure satisfaction

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Costs / Margins

• In order to reduce costs, save time, and enable
  architects and engineers to retain focus, firms
  should look outside conventional areas for high
  quality, lower cost resources that can improve
  the bottom line and improve quality
• Engineering and architecture firms should take
  advantage of the competent and well-trained
  workforce in India by partnering with top
  outsourcing firms who can provide high-quality
  work
• WGS combines the management consulting,
  technology, and project management experience of
  its chief officers with the industry competencies
  of its Indian providers to provide US firms
  access to top talent at a fraction of the
  conventional cost
• Offshore costs typically range from 45-65 of
  existing costs (depending on specific client
  requirements)
• WGS providers are capable of delivering a wide
  variety of offshore services and are
  highly-skilled professionals with years of
  experience in the U.S., Australia, India, and the
  Middle East and can be leveraged for projects of
  any size over a variety of disciplines

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Advantages of Offshoring Through WGS
Global Presence
Strong Partnerships
Technology
Process Consulting
Methodology
Strengths

• Offices in Washington, DC, USA and Bangalore,
  India

• Skilled professionals
• Numerous years of experience in multiple
  countries and continents
• Carefully selected partners via thorough vetting
  process

• In-depth technology experience
• Experience applying technology in support of
  business needs
• Belief that technology should be a key enabler of
  business rather than a focus

• Extensive experience in process-oriented
  management consulting engagements

• Extensive project management experience
• Proprietary WGS methodology blending
• Strategy
• Process
• People
• Technology

• Immediate access to both providers and clients
• Easily-supported Service Level Agreements and
  quick response times

• Reliable, trustworthy, and competent partners
• High quality work products

• Understanding of modern architectural and
  engineering processes and the impact of
  technology on these processes

• Understanding of processes and ability to
  communicate them clearly to our providers to
  ensure success

• Comprehensive view into architectural/
  engineering processes
• Ability to easily understand and manage
  outsourcing processes

Advantages
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WGS Services Provided

• Architectural
• Architectural design
• Design documentation
• 3D modelling
• CAD/CAM drafting
• Construction drawings
• Engineering
• Engineering design and documentation
• Structural
• HVAC
• Electrical
• Water/Plumbing
• Fire
• VRD (External Utilities)
• Shop drawings

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WGS Team Information

• WGS providers are aligned across multiple
  disciplines, allowing us to provide a full set of
  architecture and engineering services to our
  clients
• If there is a need to increase the size of the
  project team, WGS can add additional resources
  through our provider firms or direct,
  project-specific hires
• All provider and consultant staff are certified
  architects and engineers with numerous years of
  experience in their respective fields
• WGS projects are led by WGS Principals who are
  highly experienced engineers and architects with
  graduate degrees from US universities and
  experience working with American clients
• Typical 3D design teams are managed by architects
  with five years of US experience in 3D modeling,
  architectural design, and CAD/CAM work
• Typical services projects are managed by
  engineers with eight years of US experience
• WGS provides all clients with US-based single
  points of contact in order to ensure clear and
  timely communication of project goals,
  milestones, and issues

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WGS Clients and Past Successes Private Media
Firm

• Client Name Leading Media Firm, North-eastern US
  
• Business Problem The client needed a number of
  detailed, accurate 3D models for an 18 hole golf
  course. The models are used for marketing
  brochures and the GPS system used by golf course
  visitors. The client required numerous,
  photo-quality images but wanted to manage cost on
  the work while retaining high quality.
• Work Completed A photorealistic rendered view of
  18 hole golf course with the help of raw images.
  Multiple views were created for each hole.
  Specifically, the team was required to transfer
  all the details from the raw images to the final
  rendering to make it as realistic as possible.
  The entire project was executed in PhotoShop and
  Illustrator. The project required the team to
  interact with the parent company in the US and
  work in a controlled methodology laid out by the
  client.
• Work Time Frame 800 hours
• Customer Quote the work looks good!...thank
  you for your effort, I look forward to future
  work with the team

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WGS Clients and Past Successes Data and GIS
Firm

• Client Name Leading Data and GIS Firm, Canberra,
  Australia
• Business Problem The client needed a detailed,
  accurate set of 3D models for an extensive
  eGovernance project for the city of Canberra but
  did not have the staff to complete the work in
  the desired time frame
• Work Completed A series of 3D models of 120
  existing buildings for an entire Canberra suburb
  were created. The project was implemented using a
  mix of PhotoShop, 3D Studio MAX, and proprietary
  JAVA-based software. The basic 3D model was
  wireframed in 3D Studio MAX based on satellite
  images and uploaded to the clients software. A
  virtual skin was created with the help of images
  and was wrapped around building models to create
  a realistic depiction of the existing area.
• Work Time Frame 800 Hours
• Customer Quotes the work from India all
  looks good in my bookthe team has effectively
  placed the textures and modeled detail into the
  model where needed. Well done!

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WGS Clients and Past Successes Architecture
Firm

• Client Name Paul Tapogna Architects, Pelham, NY
• Business Problem Tapogna Architects completed a
  set of schematics for a residential kitchen and
  dining area but did not have the production staff
  to complete the necessary 3D modeling work
  required for visualization and client
  presentation.
• Work Completed A detailed 3D line rendering of
  the kitchen and dining room with eight views from
  various angles to present a complete picture of
  the space.
• Follow-on Work Based on the clear and accurate
  visualizations provided, Tapogna Architects was
  able to make design modifications and has
  requested the team to create a CD set detailing
  the kitchen and dining room layout.
• Work Time Frame Model - 32 Hours, CD Set 80
  Hours
• Customer Quotes The clear and accurate modeling
  was not only helpful to us for presentation
  purposes, but it also worked as a great design
  tool.

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WGS Clients and Past Successes Architecture
Firm

• Client Name Fox Diehl Architects, New York, NY
• Business Problem Fox Diehl faced a tight
  deadline and lacked qualified production staff to
  complete bid and filing set for high-end
  residential addition and renovation project.
• Work Completed Bid/filing set for 1200 square
  ft. addition to private residence. Set included
  floor plan, framing plan, lighting plan,
  demolition plan, elevations, sections, and detail
  sheets.
• Work Time Frame 40 hours
• Customer Quotes They came through for us when
  we were in a crunch. The quality of drawings was
  just as good as what we would have produced
  in-house and we were able to present the drawings
  to a very discerning village architectural board.

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WGS Clients and Past Successes Private Retail
Business

• Client Name Giffords Ice Cream Company,
• Silver Spring, MD
• Business Problem Before beginning construction
  on their new ice cream parlor, Giffords required
  an interior 3D rendering to be completed and
  reviewed. Giffords did not have an
  architect/designer on staff and needed an
  accurate visualization of the space created as
  quickly as possible.
• Work Completed Detailed rendering of interior of
  store along with a montage of the exterior
  context.
• Work Time Frame 40 hours
• Customer Quotes Your staff was very courteous,
  professional, and fast. We were able to make the
  last minute changes requested by our landlord and
  present them to the review panel immediately.
  We'll certainly be doing business again soon.
  Thanks!"

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Contact Information
Web http//www.wgs-inc.com

• India Office
• Washington Global Sourcing
• Golden Square Center
• 102 Eden Park, 20 Vittal Mallya Road
• Bangalore 560 001
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email info_at_wgs-inc.com
• Office Principals
• Srinath Advani
• Principal
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]
• Email srinath_at_wgs-inc.com

US Office Washington Global Sourcing 1844
Columbia Road, NW Suite 103 Washington, DC
20009 Phone [phone] Email
info_at_wgs-inc.com Office Principal Gopal
Swamy Principal, Co-founder Phone [phone]
8822 Email gopal_at_wgs-inc.com