Construction outsourcing in Australia began with estimating. Builders facing a shortage of local estimating talent — and project pipelines that could not wait for a 60 to 90 day local search — placed offshore estimators to handle quantity takeoffs and cost estimates....
The conversation usually goes like this: a builder has tried to fill an estimating or document control role locally, found no suitable candidates, posted on a freelance platform, found someone offshore who seems qualified, started working together on a per-job basis,...
Most of the concern about offshore construction staffing centres on the wrong question. Builders want to know if it will work. The more useful question is what 'working' looks like across the first month — because the early phase of an offshore placement in a...