The Jobsite Needs A Network Too
Temporary jobsite networks, LTE failover, and field device management — IT that shows up to the site, not just the office, so the schedule does not wait on connectivity.
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Trailer Wi-Fi is holding up a million-dollar schedule
Construction IT fails at the edge, not in the office. A site trailer with no wired line, a superintendent trying to pull a four-hundred-megabyte drawing set over one bar of cellular signal, and a schedule where a two-hour delay cascades across subcontractors who are already on site, already billing, and now standing around waiting on a file that will not open. The office network was solved years ago with a standard router and a business internet line; the jobsite is a different problem every single time a project starts, on a different piece of land with different connectivity, and most IT providers simply do not have an answer for it beyond suggesting a consumer hotspot and hoping.
The asset side is its own mess. Tablets and rugged laptops live in dust, heat, and truck beds, get shared informally between crews on a given day, and walk off the site more easily than an office ever loses a laptop, because nobody is tracking who has what. Meanwhile every new project spins up its own set of external collaborators — architects, engineers, subcontractors — who each need access to some of the project's files and drawings and none of the rest, and granting that access ad hoc, project after project, is how a lost tablet or a departed subcontractor ends up with standing access nobody remembers to close months after the crew has moved to the next job.
Facet MSP stands up a real temporary network per jobsite rather than hoping a consumer router and a hotspot hold for the length of a project, with LTE failover through Ubiquiti hardware where no wired line exists. Field devices are managed and wipeable, subcontractor access is scoped and expires on its own, and the network gets planned before mobilisation instead of improvised the week the trailer arrives — the same discipline applied to the office gets applied to a site that only exists for the length of one project.
From trailer to topping out
Temporary Jobsite Networks
A real network stood up for the duration of the project — not a consumer router someone bought at a hardware store — planned before mobilisation and torn down cleanly at close-out instead of left behind as an unmanaged liability.
LTE Failover and Redundancy
Cellular failover through Ubiquiti hardware covers sites with no practical wired option and backs up wired connections where they exist, so one dropped line does not stop the day.
Large Plan and Model File Access
Drawing sets and model files sync to the site and open without a lag, instead of trying to pull hundreds of megabytes over a cellular connection every time a revision lands.
Field Device Management
Tablets and rugged laptops are enrolled, tracked, and remotely wipeable, so a device that lives in a truck bed and gets shared between crews is still accounted for and recoverable if it is lost or stolen, rather than an unknown quantity somewhere on site.
Project Management Platform Support
We support the infrastructure your project management platform runs on and keep it reachable from the field, so the office and the jobsite are always looking at the same current schedule and documents instead of two versions that drift apart.
Subcontractor and Guest Access
Access for architects, engineers, and subcontractors is scoped to the specific project and files they need, and expires automatically at project close rather than lingering as a standing account nobody remembers to close.
Project Close-Out and Archiving
Closed projects are archived rather than simply left in whatever tool they were built in, so a warranty claim or a dispute two years later can still be answered with the actual project record, not a memory of it.
The field stops waiting on the office
- The trailer gets real connectivity on day one of the project
- Drawing sets open in the field without a coffee break
- A lost or stolen tablet is wiped, not written off
- Subcontractors reach the files they need and nothing else
- The office and the field see the same current documents
- Closed projects are archived and still retrievable
We show up to the site
We stand up the site, not just the office.
Jobsite networking is planned as part of the project, with hardware and failover specified before mobilisation, rather than treated as an afterthought once someone in a trailer complains about the Wi-Fi.
Guest access expires on its own.
Subcontractor and external collaborator access is tied to the project timeline, so it closes automatically at project close rather than depending on someone remembering to revoke it months later.
We plan the network before mobilisation.
Connectivity for a new site is scoped during pre-construction planning, not discovered as a problem the week equipment starts arriving and the trailer goes in, when there is no longer time to plan anything properly.
Construction IT questions
Can you get a jobsite online where there is no wired internet?
Yes — LTE failover through managed cellular hardware is standard for sites with no practical wired option, and we plan for it during pre-construction rather than scrambling once the trailer is already on site.
How do you handle devices that live on a truck?
Field tablets and rugged laptops are enrolled in device management regardless of where they physically live, so a device that gets shared between crews or spends its life in a truck bed is still tracked, and can be located or wiped if it goes missing rather than simply written off as lost.
Our drawing files are enormous. What actually helps?
Syncing current plan and model sets to the site ahead of when they are needed, rather than pulling them fresh over cellular every time, plus enough bandwidth planning at the network layer that a large file transfer does not stall everything else running on the same connection during a busy morning.
How do subcontractors get access without seeing everything?
Access is scoped to the specific project and file set a given subcontractor needs, set up when they come on and set to expire automatically at project close, rather than a shared login that quietly grants more than intended.
What happens to project data after close-out?
Projects are archived in a structured way rather than left live in whatever tool built them, so a warranty question or a dispute that surfaces years later can still be answered from the actual record instead of institutional memory that has since moved to a different company.
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