Outsourcing BAS drafting vs doing it in Structio
By Bassirou Thiam, building automation engineer · Updated
A drafter or drafting service frees your engineers from drawing, and a good one knows BAS conventions. The cost is per job and per revision, and every change on site goes back and forth by email. With Structio, the person who knows the job produces the riser and points list directly, and changes take minutes.
What outsourcing does well
- absorbs peaks when the team is overloaded;
- produces drawings in the owner's required CAD format;
- a specialist drafter brings consistent standards.
Where it costs
- each revision is a new request and a new delay;
- the drafter does not know the job: your engineer still prepares and checks everything;
- the knowledge stays outside the company.
When to outsource
For large jobs with heavy CAD requirements, or when you have no one available to produce drawings at all, outsourcing remains a sound choice.
When to choose Structio
Structio is built for one job: you describe the building once (floors, rooms, equipment, controllers) and it draws the network diagram and builds the points list from that same project, kept in sync when the job changes. Any controller brand, unlimited users, a 7-day free trial.