It behooves all international design firms to participate in global sourcing, for logical reasons. But firms that derive most revenue from domestic work should maintain domestic resources (ENR 8/2 p. 20).
Since the advent of competitive bidding (the bane of good design work), and clients insatiable desire for speed, the quality and accuracy of project design has suffered. Offshoring design work will only compound this. It is sometimes impossible to coordinate design performed at the same domestic address, let alone work performed in a distant land.