IT Support for Engineering Firms in Northern Ontario

A Revit model that takes three minutes to open is a productivity leak that never shows up on a P&L, but it's very real. Multiply that by every open-and-close, every model refresh, every clash detection, across every engineer, and it adds up to weeks of billable time a year.

We spec CAD/BIM workstations to the actual workload — high-clock-speed CPU for AutoCAD, more cores and RAM for Revit and Navisworks, professional GPUs for visualization, NVMe storage everywhere. Central plan storage sits on infrastructure that can serve those models without the engineer's local machine becoming the bottleneck.

For firms where engineers are increasingly mobile, we deploy Azure Virtual Desktop or high-performance remote workstations so a heavy tower stays in the office and the engineer works from anywhere — including remote project sites — without shipping massive files back and forth over consumer internet.

Engineering documents are not general-purpose files. Signed and sealed drawings, stamped calculations, geotechnical reports, and design memos carry professional weight — and PEO's Practice Guidelines set explicit expectations for retaining them, controlling access, and demonstrating a clear chain of authorship and revision.

We build document control on SharePoint, OneDrive, and (where the firm's workflow calls for it) specialized engineering document-management systems. Version history is authoritative. Access is role-based. Retention is set to meet or exceed PEO's expectations. When a project is closed and archived, the archive is real — immutable, backed up, and retrievable years later without a scramble.

Engineering firms hold client IP, sealed drawings, project financial information, and often confidential client business plans. Losing any of that to a ransomware event or mailbox compromise creates both direct client fallout and a professional-conduct dimension that a generic small-business breach doesn't carry.

Our security stack combines phishing-resistant MFA on every account, endpoint detection and response, email filtering with anti-impersonation, DKIM/DMARC alignment on your domain, immutable off-network backups, and — importantly for accounts-payable fraud — a mandatory written out-of-band verification procedure for any change to a vendor or client banking detail.

Engineers rarely stay at their desks. Site visits, client meetings, and project inspections mean laptops move constantly — and often into locations with poor connectivity. We deploy encrypted laptops with remote-wipe, secure remote access to central file storage, and offline-capable workflows for the moments when connectivity simply isn't there. When a laptop is lost or stolen at a jobsite, remote-wipe activates and the drives are unreadable.