In today’s construction industry, our interactions with homeowners and colleagues are highly interconnected. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is pioneering a new approach to collaborative work by enabling construction companies and project partners to work together via a centralized database.
Construction project teams often need to collaborate across offices located far apart. However, their data is typically stored independently on their own desktop computers. This information is essential for company operations and project progress, including designs, documents protected by intellectual property rights, and sensitive company secrets.
No matter what stage your team is in with BIM, your IT platform can provide the technology and support needed for effective collaboration. For project teams working from different locations, it is crucial to visualize the IT system.
—Lee Keen, Amicus ITS
Whether handling specific data or using certain software, it is necessary to protect these assets. Regular backups are essential to prevent data loss from hard drive failures, improper use, or malicious damage. Therefore, data security should be a top priority during information transmission.
Additionally, multiple parties are involved in every project. They may work onsite, in remote offices, or frequently work overtime. Ensuring smooth project operations requires IT support 52 weeks a year, 7 days a week, and 24 hours a day.
Regardless of your BIM implementation stage, your IT platform can offer technical support for collaboration. For teams in different locations, visualizing the IT system is necessary.
By adopting Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), desktop operating systems and applications can run in virtual machines on data center servers. Users can access virtual desktops and applications on their laptops and tablets, as if they were using the local system. VDI maintains all the functions of traditional desktops, but provides greater agility.
Visualizing your IT system maximizes the efficiency and responsiveness of your IT resources. It saves costs and enhances user productivity. This approach allows remote work or work on the go, while maintaining company security and compliance. Unattended computers can still access application software, but all applications and their data are securely stored in the data center.
The value of desktop virtualization is that you and other project team members can collaborate through virtual desktops, even when not in the office or at different locations. VDI enables project teams to work onsite, via 3G or 4G mobile communication, or through dedicated ADSL lines installed in offices.
Managing desktop computers is often time-consuming and challenging, especially with information transferred between contractors. Companies are increasingly aware of security risks. Data protection is particularly important for architects, who frequently are offsite and rely on mobile devices to send and receive data.
VDI can simplify many issues. For instance, when a user calls the help desk, IT staff at the data center can resolve problems remotely. The IT team can also use standard desktop management tools such as Desktop Central to confidently and securely manage operating systems and applications.
In summary, VDI helps reduce downtime, accelerate problem-solving, improve manageability, strengthen control, maintain IT security, and protect data. Ultimately, the entire project team becomes more accessible, and overall work efficiency is enhanced.
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