One team across the office and the job site
Construction teams work from offices, trailers and job sites at once. Crews need current plans on tablets, superintendents need daily logs and photos to sync, project managers need cloud project tools that work reliably, and the office needs accounting and estimating systems that tie it all together. If the field is working from yesterday's drawings, mistakes get built.
Job site connectivity is its own problem. A new site may have no wired internet for months, so cellular routers and secure Wi-Fi in the trailer often carry the whole operation. Those connections need the same firewall protection as the office.
- Cellular or temporary internet for trailers, set up behind a firewall, not just a phone hotspot
- Tablets and phones managed centrally, encrypted, and wipeable if one goes missing
- Cloud file storage so the field and the office open the same current plan set
- Accounts for project staff and subcontractors switched on at kickoff and off at closeout
Payment fraud and email
Payment requests between owners, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers are a common target for fraud. The pattern is simple: an attacker gets into an email account, or imitates one, watches a project until a large payment is due, then sends new bank details. The money goes out and is rarely recovered. The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center reports business email compromise among the costliest types of cybercrime every year.
Technology helps: email filtering, multi-factor authentication and domain protection such as DMARC stop most of these attempts. But the strongest control is a rule. Any change to payment details is confirmed by phone, using a number you already have on file, never the one in the email. Read how to prevent business email compromise.
Project records that outlast the project
In California, Code of Civil Procedure section 337.15 allows claims for latent construction defects up to ten years after substantial completion. That makes the drawings, RFIs, submittals, change orders, daily logs and photos from a closed project important for a decade, often long after the project manager who kept them has moved on.
Those records tend to live in a dozen places: a cloud project platform, email, phones, a shared drive and someone's laptop. We help build a closeout archive in one place, in formats you can still open in year nine, backed up and protected from deletion. Our article on construction records retention explains what to keep.
Crews, turnover and devices
Seasonal and project-based staffing means accounts and devices need to be set up quickly when a project starts and shut off just as quickly when it ends. Shared logins on job site tablets make that impossible, because nobody can tell who did what or remove one person's access cleanly.
Individual accounts, multi-factor sign-in and a simple offboarding checklist close that gap. Managed devices make it practical: a lost tablet can be located, locked or wiped remotely, and a replacement can be set up quickly with the same apps and access.
How GlobeVM supports a construction company
On top of our standard security, construction companies get job site connectivity planning, mobile device management for tablets and phones, cloud file setup so the field and office share one plan set, and backups and long-term retention for project and accounting data.
Remote help reaches the field in minutes, and our engineers come to your office when hands are needed. If you plan to bid on defense work that involves controlled unclassified information, read what CMMC asks of contractors first.