Cloud & infrastructure for construction
Infrastructure that mobilises with the project, not against it
Construction businesses run on documents and mobile workers. Cloud and infrastructure has to follow the project - connectivity to portacabins, mobile estate that scales with sites, and a CDE that doesn't grind to a halt on 4G.
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Why it matters
Cloud & infrastructure in construction earns its keep when it joins the business together
Most UK construction firms run a hybrid estate: Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, a hosted CDE, accounts on-prem or in private cloud, and a fleet of phones and tablets on site. Small decisions about hosting and connectivity have outsized effects on day-to-day delivery.
Done well, infrastructure becomes invisible to site teams and predictable to finance. Done badly, it shows up as drawings that won't open in the cabin, CDE outages and surprise mobile bills.
What the work covers
What cloud and infrastructure work looks like in a construction business
Azure landing zone done properly
Subscriptions, identity, networking and policy set up to a known reference, sized for a project business.
Site connectivity that respects the cabin
4G/5G failover, SD-WAN and monitoring designed around mobilisation, not just head office.
Mobile estate at scale
Intune-managed phones and tablets, with conditional access and clean offboarding for subbies and leavers.
FinOps and DR you can demonstrate
Tagging, budgets and a documented recovery time for Microsoft 365, CDE and accounts - tested, not assumed.
What needs to be in place
The foundations a construction cloud partner expects to see
Identity as the spine
Entra ID, conditional access and joiner-leaver flows that cope with project churn.
Monitoring that watches the right things
Coverage of the CDE, mobile estate and accounts platform, with response defined rather than discovered.
Backup that covers the data that matters
Microsoft 365, SharePoint and the CDE backed up off-tenant, restore tested regularly.
Policy and patch hygiene
Patching cadence and baseline policies that hold up across a moving estate.
What good looks like
A partner who has done this in construction before saves you the first year of learning
A construction-aware infrastructure partner mobilises a new site in days with connectivity, devices and access ready. They'll keep Azure spend predictable, mobile bills understood and DR something you can demonstrate to a tier-one auditor.
Site teams stop complaining about IT, finance stops getting surprised by mobile bills, and the next mobilisation reuses the same kit and the same process.
Outcomes you should expect
- Azure landing zone on a known reference
- Site connectivity sized for cabin and crew
- Mobile estate managed, secure and recoverable
- DR position documented and tested across Microsoft 365, CDE and accounts
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