Industry
Construction, Engineering and Real Estate
Work in the built environment happens in two places at once: an office with heavy design files, and sites with poor connectivity, rough conditions and people who need drawings now.
At a glance
- Site connectivity that works before the building does
- Large-file collaboration without version chaos
- CAD and BIM workstation performance
- Wire fraud controls on payment instructions
Sites and mobility
Temporary sites need connectivity long before permanent services exist — cellular routers with failover, secure guest and contractor separation, and equipment robust enough for a trailer. Devices in the field need to be managed, encrypted and remotely wipeable, because loss and damage are routine rather than exceptional.
Field access to drawings, photos, inspection records and daily reports should work on inconsistent connections and synchronise reliably when signal returns, without staff resorting to personal accounts and messaging apps to move files.
- Cellular and failover connectivity for sites
- Contractor and guest network separation
- Managed, encrypted mobile devices and tablets
- Offline-tolerant file access and synchronisation
Design files and collaboration
CAD, BIM and rendering workloads punish underspecified hardware and slow storage. Workstations are specified against the applications actually in use, and file storage is designed for large-file performance rather than treated as general document storage.
External collaboration with architects, engineers, trades and clients needs controlled sharing with expiry and named access — not permanent open links that outlive the project by years.
- Workstation specification for CAD, BIM and rendering
- Storage designed for large-file performance
- Controlled external sharing with expiry
- Version control and project archive structure
Payment and contract fraud
Wire fraud targeting deposits, draw payments and closings is the most costly incident type in this sector. Defence combines email authentication and impersonation protection with a verification procedure applied to every change of banking details — by voice, to a previously known number, with no exceptions for urgency or seniority.
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Questions
Frequently asked questions
- Can you set up IT for a new site quickly?
- Yes. Cellular connectivity, network equipment and device provisioning can be staged in advance and deployed as soon as the trailer or unit is in place.
- Our drawings open slowly over the network. Fixable?
- Usually. The cause is generally storage performance, network design or client-side configuration, and it is diagnosable rather than something to be tolerated.
- How do we protect against wire fraud?
- Technical email controls plus a mandatory verbal verification procedure for banking changes, with staff explicitly authorised to delay a payment while verifying.
Make the site as reliable as the office
Connectivity, devices and file access designed for how project work actually happens.