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Construction

Builders live in two realities at once: a permanent office with a design department and temporary sites that open and close with the project. On top of that come heavy design files that cannot be pushed down a narrow link.

Days
for connectivity at a new site
CAD
workstations for design software
Mobile
connectivity where there is no cable
Unified
a drawing archive by site

What we do

Five parts. Three concern the office and the designers, two the temporary sites.

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Designers' workstations

Builds specified for design software: the processor, memory and graphics card are sized for your actual models rather than a generic catalogue.

A server for calculations

Long calculations and rendering move to a server so the designer's computer is not tied up for half a day.

A shared project archive

A shared project repository with version history and per-site permissions instead of folders on personal drives and memory sticks.

Internet on site

We set up quickly in the site cabin: mobile internet with amplification, wireless coverage across the site, and on long projects a wired line as well.

Drawings in the site manager's hands

The site manager checks the current version of a drawing on a tablet instead of ringing the office about a crumpled paper copy.

What we install on site

A site lives from a couple of months to several years, so the kit has to deploy and pack down quickly.

1-2 days We deploy straight away A mobile router with amplification, a network in the cabin, printing
1-2 weeks A site that runs for years A wired line from a provider plus a mobile backup
The kit What goes into the site cabin Laptops, printing, power, cameras around the perimeter
On closing Closing the site Collecting the equipment, wiping the disks, moving it to the next site

What designers complain about most is working with drawings over a narrow link. Opening a heavy file straight over the network is both slow and risky: a dropout while saving corrupts the document. The right way is to work on the server through a terminal, so only the picture travels over the link.

Questions and answers

We install a router with an external antenna and an amplifier, which is enough for email, documents and access to the archive. If the project is long and there are many people, we file a request with a provider for a wired line in parallel and keep the mobile link as backup.

Giving everyone a powerful workstation is expensive if the heavy calculation runs once a week. It is usually better value to give everyone mid-range machines and move the calculations to one shared server. We price both options when specifying.

A shared repository with version history and permissions instead of copies scattered across personal drives. Then the site opens exactly the same file as the office and older revisions stay available. The problem here is organisational as much as technical, so along with the repository we write the working rules.

So we take inexpensive identical laptops to sites, easy to swap, and keep the files off them. We also track them: every unit has an owner, and when the site closes everything comes back against an inventory with the disks wiped.

We will work out how things are arranged at your end

Скажите, сколько объектов в работе и в каких программах сидят проектировщики. Предложим схему отдельно для конторы и для площадок.