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Trends of Outsourcing Engineering Tasks by Construction Firms in Egypt

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Last updated: 29 Dec 2024

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The primary tasks of construction firms are construction, engineering, and administration, in addition to legal, human resources, business development, and public relations tasks. Engineering tasks may include design review, preparation of shop drawings, planning and follow-up, cost control, value engineering, and as-built drawings. However, engineering tasks are essential for construction projects; they are challenging because they are time-consuming and require a high level of knowledge and skills. Because of these challenges, some construction firms outsource engineering tasks to specialized engineering firms. Since limited literature currently exists for engineering tasks outsourcing, this study aims to identify engineering tasks outsourcing among construction firms in Egypt in terms of which tasks, reasons for the outsourcing, and related risks. We conducted a questionnaire survey among construction firms to achieve the study objectives. The results conclude that 77% of the responding firms have outsourced one or more engineering tasks, which shows that outsourcing has become an important strategy for conducting engineering tasks. Data on firm demographics, types of engineering tasks outsourcing, reasons for outsourcing, and other aspects related to outsourcing engineering tasks were also collected. The results show that construction firms perceive engineering outsourcing as more efficient than in-house engineering tasks implementation, especially in terms of high quality and timely implementation. However, outsourcing has a negative impact in terms of cost. In addition, the results show that shop drawings are the most outsourced engineering task with about 75%, while cost management is the least outsourced engineering task with only 8%.

DOI

10.21608/erjsh.2023.239443.1224

Keywords

Outsourcing, Risks, reasons, Construction Firms in Egypt

Authors

First Name

Samar

Last Name

Azzam

MiddleName

Abdelrahman

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Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt.

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samarabdelrhman94@gmail.com

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cairo

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First Name

Shady

Last Name

Mohamed

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ahmed

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Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt.

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shady.ahmed@feng.bu.edu.eg

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KARIM

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ELDASH

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Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering at Shoubra, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt.

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karim.aldosh@feng.bu.edu.eg

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CAIRO

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0000-0003-2742-0163

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53

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1

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45043

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2024-01-01

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2023-09-28

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2024-01-01

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201

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211

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3009-6049

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3009-6022

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Engineering Research Journal (Shoubra)

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Trends of Outsourcing Engineering Tasks by Construction Firms in Egypt

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29 Dec 2024