Construction
Every job is a new site, a new crew, and a network that has to exist by Monday.
Then it comes down and does it again somewhere else. Meanwhile the office needs the plan set, the exports have to land, and month end still closes on time.
Technology management is part of Guardian's Managed Services.
What That Looks Like
Sites that come and go
Standing up connectivity at a new jobsite, getting a super logged in from a slab, keeping a trailer online where service is marginal, and taking it all down when the job closes.
And the buildings you actually own
Offices, shops, and yards — multiple buildings joined by fiber, wireless coverage across thousands of square feet, and on-prem servers replicated to Azure with backups held offsite. Managed Network
We know what a WIP is
You shouldn't have to explain work-in-progress reporting, retainage, or why the month-end export matters before someone will help you fix it. We're active members of the Construction Financial Management Association, which is where we learned to ask about the schedule of values before asking about the network.
Insurance and compliance questions
Carriers increasingly ask about controls before they quote, and we have a CMMC Registered Practitioner on staff if federal work is on your horizon. Both are assessment work rather than something managed services covers. Security & Compliance Readiness Review
The Job Sets the Schedule
Technology in construction runs on someone else's calendar. The trailer arrives when it arrives, the crew mobilizes whether the network is ready or not, and nobody is going to move a pour because a printer isn't configured. Most of what we do for construction clients is decided by that schedule rather than by a maintenance window.
It also means going to the site. Some of this work cannot be done from a desk, and our technicians end up on ladders, on lifts, and in places nobody would choose to run a cable.
Mounting a wireless access point. The bucket truck wasn't in his job description.
“Climbs 15' ladders with poisonous spider nests.
Figures out how to work a boom lift.
Fixed the WiFi problem down in hell.
Decent employees are hard to come by. Great ones are like unicorns. You've got a unicorn.
Thanks for his help getting me through yet another bayou crisis.”
Let's Talk About What's Slowing the Job Down
Tell us what the field complains about, what breaks at month end, and what you'd need in place if a federal contract came up.