Managed IT Services for Construction Companies
IT for construction companies whose people work on job sites, not at desks: laptops and tablets managed wherever they are, plans and bids protected, payment fraud stopped at the inbox, and a help desk that answers the field.
Overview
Most of your company is not in the office.
Superintendents, project managers and estimators work from trucks, trailers and job sites, on laptops, tablets and phones connected over cellular or temporary site internet. Devices get dropped, left behind and shared. When every one of them is managed, a lost tablet can be located, locked or wiped, and the files on it live in the cloud rather than only on that device.
Construction also moves a lot of money: draws, progress payments, retainage and supplier invoices, often by wire or ACH. That makes contractors a regular target for business email compromise, where a criminal impersonates a supplier, subcontractor or owner and asks for payment details to change. Email filtering, multifactor sign-in and a habit of confirming bank changes by phone stop most of it.
Plans, bids and change orders are shared with subcontractors, owners and architects every day. We set up file sharing so outside parties see the right documents and the right versions, staff lose access when a project or job ends, and project files are backed up independently of the platform they live in.
Capabilities
What's included
- Managed field laptops and tabletsEvery device enrolled, encrypted and patched over any connection, and locatable, lockable and wipeable if it goes missing.
- Email security and payment-fraud defenseImpersonation and phishing filtering, outside-sender warnings and multifactor sign-in on every mailbox.
- Secure file sharingMicrosoft 365 or Google Workspace set up so subcontractors and owners get the files they need and nothing more.
- Backup of project and estimating dataDaily backup of cloud files, mail and any office server, with restores tested.
- Onboarding and offboardingSeasonal and project staff set up quickly, and their access removed the day the job ends.
- Help desk for the fieldSupport by phone and remote session, so a superintendent on site gets help without driving to the office.
How We Work
Our approach
- 01
Assess
Devices in the office and the field, accounts, software and how files are shared with outside parties today.
- 02
Enroll
Every laptop, tablet and phone brought under management, encrypted and protected with multifactor sign-in.
- 03
Run
Monitoring, patching, backups and help desk, wherever the device happens to be.
- 04
Review
A regular review of devices, staffing changes, software renewals and risks.
What You Get
Commitments
Per managed device, month to month, with no multi-year contract.
Any managed laptop, tablet or phone locked or wiped if it is lost.
Your tenant, licenses and project files stay in the company's name.
To Get Started
What we need from you
- Counts of office and field staff, and the laptops, tablets and phones they use
- The estimating, project management and accounting software you run
- How you share plans and documents with subcontractors and owners today
Common Questions
Questions we get asked
How do you support people who are on job sites all day?
Remotely, wherever they are. Every managed laptop and tablet reports in over any internet connection, so it can be patched, monitored and supported from a phone call and a remote session. Staff call the help desk from the field the same way they would from the office, and most problems are fixed without anyone driving back to the shop.
What happens when a laptop or tablet is lost or damaged on site?
Because the device is managed and encrypted, it can be located, locked or wiped remotely, and the data on it is protected even if it is never recovered. Files live in the cloud rather than only on the device, so a replacement can be set up and signed in quickly, with the same apps and settings as the one that was lost.
How do you stop fake invoices and changed bank details?
With several layers. Email filtering catches most impersonation and lookalike domains, multifactor sign-in protects the mailboxes criminals try to take over, and outside-sender warnings make spoofed messages easier to spot. The control that matters most is a habit: confirming any change of payment details by phone, using a number you already had, before money moves.
Do you support construction software like estimating and project management tools?
We support the devices, network, sign-ins and backups those applications run on, and we work with the software vendor when an issue is inside the application. Most contractors run a mix of cloud project management, estimating, takeoff and accounting tools; we keep the laptops and tablets that run them consistent, secure and up to date.
Tell us how
your crews work.
Tell us how many people and devices you have and what rules you answer to. We respond within one business day with a scope and a monthly price.