Chicago architecture and engineering firms carry on the city’s tradition as the birthplace of the skyscraper, designing towers, campuses and infrastructure around the world. ITServices.Tech runs IT as a managed service for Chicago architecture and engineering firms, from user help and threat protection to backup and the long-range technology roadmap.
A city of architects
Several of the world’s largest architecture firms were founded in Chicago, and the city’s studios design towers, hospitals, universities and airports worldwide. Engineers design structures, transit and water systems for the region and beyond.
Structural engineers and the lakefront
Chicago’s structural engineering firms helped invent the tube systems that let towers rise past a hundred stories. Today their analysis models, wind tunnel data and inspection photos for aging lakefront and river structures can run to terabytes, and we size file servers and offsite copies to match.
Energy benchmarking and performance
Chicago’s energy benchmarking ordinance requires large buildings to report energy use, and owners increasingly want design teams to plan for performance. Energy modeling and documentation for owners need capable workstations and organized records.
Global projects and large teams
A tower in Dubai or a campus in Shanghai can be designed by teams in three offices at once. Depending on the authoring tool, we set up cloud collaboration, a central model server or hosted desktops so the model opens quickly wherever the designer sits.
Workstations
A rendering specialist and a project architect do not need the same machine. We size the graphics card, memory and disk to the work and hold drivers at versions the software maker certifies.
Archives
Completed projects move into backed-up long-term storage, keeping active work fast and old drawings easy to find.
IT services for Chicago architecture and engineering firms
- CAD workstation support
- Fast, reliable file storage and sharing
- Backups for project archives
- Secure collaboration with clients
Everything runs under one managed IT agreement, with the help desk, monitoring, patching, Microsoft 365, security and backups handled by the same team.
Software we support
We support the systems you already run, such as Revit, AutoCAD, Civil 3D, Bluebeam, SketchUp and Rhino, along with project accounting such as Deltek Vantagepoint or BQE CORE and file platforms like Egnyte, without making you replace them.
Security and compliance
Project files are valuable and often under contract terms. Backups, access controls and secure sharing protect them.
Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) regulates fingerprint and face data, which matters for biometric time clocks.
Office hours in Chicago
Office hours for Chicago clients are Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM Central, in your own time zone.
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