Architecture and engineering IT in Dallas-Fort Worth

Permit set due at 8 a.m. The model has to open. A backup counts when the model opens from it.Permit set due at 8 a.m. The model has to open.

When something fails, recovery covers the model, its references and the issued set, and we test it before you need it. When the software vendor blames the workstation, we get on the phone with them.

Recovery that includes the model, its references and the whole issued set. Tested, not hoped for.

When the software vendor blames the workstation, we get on the phone with them.

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Your software, connected to the rest of the office.

The application is one part of the setup. We look after the computers, connections, access and recovery it depends on. When a problem crosses into the application, we work with its vendor to get the right people involved.

  • AutoCAD
  • Revit
  • Civil 3D
  • SharePoint

What we check first, starting with the central model.

A sync folder is not a file server.

Revit worksharing isn’t supported on OneDrive, SharePoint, Dropbox or Google Drive, and AutoCAD doesn’t lock files in SharePoint or OneDrive. So two people can open the same drawing without a warning. We help pick the setup that fits the network you actually have. Autodesk says so for Revit and AutoCAD.

A drawing that opens can still be incomplete.

Xrefs, sheet sets, plot styles, fonts and Civil 3D data shortcuts have to come back with it. We keep backups isolated and test that all of it comes back.

The sealed set has to open in ten years.

The sealing architect keeps each sealed document legible for at least ten years from its signature date. A backup you can’t open later doesn’t count. We build and test the recovery around that. The rule: Texas architecture rule 1.103(c).

Designing for a defense project?

The firm still owes the CMMC self-assessments, even with Phase II suspended since July 13, 2026. A prime can’t award you a covered subcontract without your assessment from the last three years (DFARS 7020). And a cyber incident gets reported within 72 hours (DFARS 7012).

Revit is Windows. Your office probably isn’t.

Revit only runs on Windows, so the drafting stations are PCs and the principals and marketing are often on Macs. We run both, with the same project storage, printers and backups, at the same price per person. Mac and Apple support.

Big files, slow network.

Revit models, point clouds and full drawing sets are large. We size the network, the storage and the backups for files that size, so opening a model doesn’t mean a coffee break.

AI at an architecture or engineering firm

About $105,000 in extra work the firm stopped giving away

About $190,000 in possibly uncompensated work turned up across active projects; about $105,000 of it became approved additional-services agreements.

How it worked

An engineering firm kept saying yes to extra design revisions, site visits and alternative analyses, and kept not writing up contract amendments for them. Good clients ask, you help. We connected the firm’s Ajera project data with approved scope documents, change requests and project correspondence. AI flagged activity that might fall outside the original scope and built an exception report showing the source material behind each item. Project managers decided which ones justified more compensation. About $190,000 in possibly uncompensated work turned up across active projects. The firm secured about $105,000 in approved additional-services agreements and tightened its scope control.

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