IT that handles theCAD and the archive.
Civil, structural, MEP, and architectural engineering firms. We tune for big-file workflows, protect your IP, and keep years of project archives accessible without exploding storage costs.
Compliance scope
Typical engagement
10–250 users · 1–6 sites
Who we usually meet
Firm owner, principal, or operations manager. Cares about the project deadline, not the IT roadmap — until something breaks the project deadline. Often has a 'power user' inside the firm who built the original setup with good intentions and duct tape.
Engineering firms have two IT problems most MSPs aren't ready for: massive files (a single Revit model can be 2 GB; a SolidWorks assembly tree can hit hundreds of GB) and high-value intellectual property that walks out the door if security is loose. Layer in years of project archives that nobody wants to delete and disaster recovery that has to keep up with billable workflows, and the surface area gets serious. We've engineered for engineering firms long enough to know where the bodies are buried.
What we hear in discovery
The engineering pain points,named.
Multi-gigabyte file workflows.
Revit, AutoCAD, SolidWorks, Civil 3D — these tools assume LAN-class performance. WAN-distributed teams suffer. CAD over consumer-grade VPN is a productivity disaster.
IP protection without breaking workflows.
Your designs are the entire business. Yet engineers need to share them with subcontractors, structural reviewers, and clients. Striking the balance between sharing and exfiltration risk is harder than it sounds.
Project archives nobody wants to delete.
Five, ten, fifteen years of completed projects accumulate. Clients return for renovations, expert testimony lands in lawsuits years later, a structural review of an old design pops up unexpectedly. You can't delete it — but flat-hot storage of a decade of CAD files spirals out of control fast.
License sprawl across Autodesk, Bentley, Adobe.
Engineering firms often discover they're paying for 30% more seats than they actively use, scattered across Autodesk Construction Cloud, Bluebeam, Bentley ProjectWise, and Adobe Creative Cloud.
How we solve them
The C2 playbook for engineering.
High-performance file infrastructure.
BIM 360 / Revit Server topology, distributed file caching, or VDI for multi-site CAD — we design for the actual file sizes you work with, not the theoretical 100 MB office worker.
Service: Managed ITTiered project archives on Wasabi.
Active projects on fast local storage; recent archives on warm Wasabi; closed projects on cold storage with auto-tiering policies you set once. Storage cost typically drops 60–70%, and a closed-project retrieval is still seconds, not minutes.
Service: Cloud & VoIPDLP + access control for IP protection.
Conditional access, device posture checks, sensitivity labels on CAD files, USB controls — layered controls that stop the casual exfiltration without stopping the work.
Service: CybersecurityLicense rationalization.
Quarterly review of every Autodesk, Bentley, Adobe, and SaaS license. Reclaim seats from departed users, downgrade unused tiers, consolidate shadow IT. Most firms see 12–25% savings in year one.
Service: CIO Services & IT ConsultingHow we run it
Project archives, tiered.
Active project files stay on fast local storage. Closed projects auto-tier to Wasabi cold storage on a policy you set once. Years of archived projects stay accessible without paying flat-hot pricing for them.
Where to start
Services engineering clients ask for first.
FAQ
Engineering questions, answered.
How do you handle project archives that need to be retained for years?
Can you support BIM 360 / Revit Server / ProjectWise?
Do you do CAD-optimized VDI?
What's the price range for engineering firms?
Ready to stop fighting your IT?
Tell us what's breaking, what's slowing you down, or what you're trying to build. We'll respond same-day with a real plan — no boilerplate sales sequence.
Same-day response, weekdays. After-hours: ring through to on-call.