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NY Consultant Survey Forecasts Industry Growth, Engineer Shortage
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2007.tb07970.x
Subject(s) - economic shortage , government (linguistics) , competition (biology) , business , overhead (engineering) , insurance industry , private sector , face (sociological concept) , marketing , engineering , finance , economics , economic growth , actuarial science , philosophy , ecology , social science , sociology , electrical engineering , biology , linguistics
This article discusses the results of a survey of member firms conducted by the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) that indicate some trends and challenges the engineering industry expects to face in the near future. Finding/retaining qualified personnel, competition from both foreign and government sources, overhead expenses, and insurance costs were some of the critical issues pointed out by survey participants. Trends in the engineering profession included design‐build and other alternative delivery methods, public‐private partnerships, shortages of engineers, and out‐sourcing unskilled tasks to outside consultants or companies located overseas.