IT Support for Construction & Trades

The drawing in the rain

A site manager stands in a half-built unit, holding a tablet, trying to open the latest revision of a drawing while the wind pushes rain across the screen. If that file is a week out of date, or the cabin has no signal, the wrong wall gets built. Behind every job like this sits IT that has to work outdoors, on the move, and often miles from your office.

What we look after

Construction and trades run on kit that gets dropped, rained on and driven between sites. We keep the whole picture working:

• Site connectivity — temporary 4G/5G routers for cabins and units, secure site Wi-Fi, and fixed lines where a long project earns one
• Rugged and mobile devices — tablets, laptops and phones set up for the field, kept updated and locked down if lost or stolen
• Project document management — one live set of drawings, RAMS and photos in Microsoft 365 or your construction platform, so nobody works from an old revision
• Cloud access from anywhere — the same files and email on site, in the van and at head office, without emailing versions around
• Head-office systems — estimating, accounts and the network and Wi-Fi that hold it together

Data and uptime pressures specific to your trade

Losing access on site is expensive — trades stand idle and deadlines slip. But it is not only about uptime. You handle client and homeowner data, subcontractor details and CIS records, all covered by UK GDPR. Main contractors increasingly ask for Cyber Essentials before they let you into their supply chain or their document portal, so weak IT can cost you the tender. Your health-and-safety paperwork — method statements, risk assessments, CDM records — has to be current, findable and backed up, because a missing document is a real liability, not just an inconvenience.

How we help

We manage this remotely for the everyday things — patching, backups, account changes, a device that will not sync — through our remote IT support. When a job needs boots on the ground, such as getting a new site cabin online or sorting head-office cabling, our team (often delivered with our sister company PC Macgicians) comes out to you with on-site IT support. We will be honest about what a site can realistically get: some remote locations have poor coverage, and we would rather set expectations than promise a signal that is not there. Ongoing, managed IT support keeps devices, cloud files and security looked after so you can concentrate on the build.

Who this is for

Builders, groundworkers, electricians, plumbers, roofers and fit-out firms — from a two-van trade with a home office to a contractor running several sites at once across South London, Croydon and Surrey. If your team works away from a desk and your projects depend on the right drawing reaching the right person, this is built for you.