AJ DESIGN GROUP01 · THE OFFERPROJECT SERVICEFor engineering consultants managing outsourced drafting
More time for design.
Less time chasing drawings.
AJ Design Group supplies a project engineer backed by its overseas drafting team. We take on the meeting-to-drafter handoff, so your engineers can focus on design.
AJ DESIGN GROUP02 · THE PROBLEMPROJECT SERVICEThe familiar problem
You have drafters.
You are still the middleman.
Every meeting creates decisions to explain, drawings to check and changes to chase.
Project meetings
Your engineer
Explain. Check. Chase. Repeat.
Drafting team
A typical outsourced drafting workflow
AJ DESIGN GROUP03 · THE HANDOFFPROJECT SERVICEHow AJD follows the work through
From meeting decisions
to drawings you can approve.
Agreed meetings
Join design and coordination meetings.
Clear brief
Understand decisions and brief the drafters.
Models & drawings
Produce the agreed updates.
Check changes
Check the work and follow up open items.
Your approval
Answer design questions and sign off.
AJD manages the handoff. Design questions come back to you.
AJ DESIGN GROUP04 · WHO DOES WHATPROJECT SERVICEClear responsibilities
We manage the drafting.
You keep the design decisions.
Design and signoff
You set the engineering direction, answer design questions and approve the work.
Meetings and checks
We manage the drafters and check their changes against the agreed brief.
Models and drawings
Our drafting team produces and updates the agreed models and drawings.
Engineering design responsibility and signoff stay with your consultancy unless separately agreed.
AJ DESIGN GROUP05 · A FLEXIBLE SERVICEPROJECT SERVICESupport without a full-time hire
A managed project service.
Not recruitment.
Buy project engineer hours as needed, with drafting support alongside.
AJD manages the team
You work through the AJD engineer, rather than managing individual drafters.
Agree hours and meeting support
Set time for meetings, briefing and checks to suit the project.
AJ DESIGN GROUP06 · HOW CHARGING WORKSPROJECT SERVICETwo rates. One agreed project budget.
You are not paying
engineer rates for drafting.
Engineer hours × engineer rate
Meetings, briefing, checking and follow-up.
Drafting hours × lower rate
Models and drawings, billed separately.
Agree both rates and the project budget before we start. Any extra spend needs your approval first.
AJ DESIGN GROUP07 · START SMALLPROJECT SERVICEA practical first step
Start with one project.
Agree the work before we begin.
Agree the scope
Set model and drawing needs, deliverables and timing.
Plan the support
Choose the meetings and tasks AJD will take on.
Set the budget
Agree engineer and drafting hours and rates, then review the workload as we go.
AJ DESIGN GROUP08 · LET’S TALKPROJECT SERVICEEngineer-led drafting support
Which project
should we start with?
Send Ibrahim a short outline of the project, the drawings you need and where meeting support would help.
Ibrahim Ahmed
i.ahmed@ajdesigngroup.com