5 Reasons Why You Should Augment Your Civil Engineering Team

Feeling uncertain about your ability to deliver?

Nervous the project you just won might not go as well as it should?

If there’s a lot on your in-house team’s plate, you may need civil engineering staff augmentation to ensure your next job runs smoothly, and client satisfaction stays high. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) notes that leveraging external expert resources helps civil engineering firms remain competitive, especially when facing labor shortages. By bringing in additional talent, CE firms like yours can more readily overcome challenges and deliver the exceptionally high-quality services clients count on.

Five ways resource reinforcements can impact your civil engineering team’s success.

1. Navigating Complex Regulations, Changing Codes. Evolving land development requirements can be difficult to keep up with, especially if your in-house team doesn’t have experience in the jurisdiction of the project you’re bidding on—or the one you just won. Avoid compliance issues by bringing in civil engineering, landscape architecture, and other design professionals current on the specific requirements of your development’s locale. Get expertise needed to ensure you meet local and state requirements—and reduce risk of delays or financial penalties.
2. Addressing Environmental Concerns. Today’s development projects are increasingly shaped by environmental considerations. Whether it’s minimizing impact on local ecosystems, managing water resources, or meeting sustainability standards, environmental factors play an important role in project design and execution. From conducting impact assessments, to developing mitigation strategies, your augmented team helps keep you compliant—and enables you to meet client and community sustainability goals.
3. Meeting (and Exceeding) Client Expectations. You’ve pledged to provide high-value services on time and within budget, which means you need to make sure your in-house team isn’t stretched too thin. Civil engineering/landscape architecture staff augmentation provides design capacity needed to meet deadlines without compromising quality, as well as niche expertise required to address specific project needs.
4. Managing Risk Effectively. Unforeseen site conditions, supply-chain disruptions, budget overruns. These are inherent risks with any civil engineering project. Effective risk management requires experience, foresight, and agility—qualities that can be in short supply when in-house professionals are at capacity.
5. Resolving Technical/Bandwidth Challenges. Every civil engineering project comes with its own set of hurdles. Whether it’s designing innovative infrastructure solutions, overcoming site constraints, or troubleshooting the unexpected, when your in-house team’s time is tight, bringing talent, fresh perspectives and technical know-how is a good idea.

 

Staff Augmentation: Your Key to Project Wins

In today’s fast-paced development landscape, success hinges on the ability to deliver desired results while managing risk, meeting client expectations, and staying compliant. Supplementing your civil engineering and design staff when needed provides the know-how and support needed to succeed at every level. By bringing in specialized professionals to bolster your internal team, your firm gains capacity to deliver the outstanding work you’re known for on time and in budget.

How HRC Supports Land Development Project Success

1. HRC Engineers has the specialized knowledge you need, plus the bandwidth required, to ensure you comply.
2. Partnering with HRC helps you manage project complexities and avoid costly mistakes.
3. HRC provides innovative solutions and enables superior results, so you not only deliver as promised, but build strong relationships that boost the likelihood of repeat business.
4. By tapping HRC to supplement your team, you access the been-there done-that professionals who can help identify potential problems before they escalate, develop contingency plans, and pull together to enable your project to stay on course.
5. Our team helps your organization avoid costly errors and ensures every step of the process is smooth.

“HRC made it easy for us, and pricing was competitive. After having worked with the HRC team, the UES team is very much in favor of doing business together again.”

David M. Hesterlee, P.E., UES

Ready to shore up your team? Call (770) 942-0196 now for the professional staffing you need.