Design, Build, Deliver, All on Microsoft 365
Envision IT helps construction and engineering firms modernize Microsoft 365 into the platform they design, build, collaborate, and deliver on, replacing aging sites and scattered knowledge with fast, self-serve answers for every team, discipline, and office.
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What's Slowing Down Your Project Delivery?
Construction and engineering firms manage thousands of revisions, dozens of trade partners, and decades of institutional knowledge, often on platforms that haven't kept pace with how the work actually runs. Six challenges we help construction and engineering firms overcome:
Knowledge Trapped in Files
Specs, standards, and manuals are stored as PDFs that no one can search, so answers depend on the few people who know where to look.
Contacts Stuck in Inboxes
Owner, consultant, and subcontractor details live in individual Outlook mailboxes and leave with them.
Slow Partner Onboarding
Every new contractor or consultant means another IT ticket and project delay.
Project Record Exposure
Drawings and RFIs are sent via email, creating version confusion and litigation risk.
Site and Teams Sprawl
Teams and SharePoint sites multiply without discipline, so PMs work from the wrong revision.
The Field and Office are Disconnected
Field teams use phones, office teams use desktops, and M365 becomes just another silo instead of the single source of truth.
Why Envision IT?
One Partner for the People Inside and Outside Your Projects
Construction and engineering firms already run on Microsoft 365. What's often missing is a partner who can shape it around how projects actually run, across job numbers, disciplines, offices, and the trade partners who come and go with every build.
Envision IT partners with construction and engineering firms to make Microsoft 365 the platform behind how they design, build, and deliver, combining consulting, Saas products, custom integrations, and 20+ years of experience with the tools your teams already use every day.
Transforming How You Design, Build, and Deliver on Microsoft 365
Envision IT's custom Microsoft 365 solutions start with how your firm actually works, then shape Microsoft 365 around it, from the trailer to the head office, and from the first drawing to the final closeout.
A Modern Intranet that Keeps Up
Replace aging SharePoint sites and disconnected file shares with a modern intranet that connects every office, discipline, and department. A hub-and-spoke architecture, distributed authoring, and a mobile-first experience ensure the trailer, the design studio, and the head office all work from the same source of truth.
Engineering Knowledge and People Search
Engineering manuals, spec libraries, and staff directories often exist as static files and out-of-sync records. Build a searchable knowledge base and unified directory on Microsoft 365, so engineers, PMs, and field teams find the right clause, the right colleague, or the right consultant in seconds, from a desktop or a phone at the job site.
External Collaboration, Run by the Business
A single project can involve hundreds of external users: subs, consultants, vendors, and owners. Give everyone a branded portal on your own tenant and let your PMs handle onboarding and access themselves, with no IT tickets and no M365 licenses for external users.
Governed Project Data Rooms
Drawings, specs, submittals, RFIs, and change orders spread across email and file shares are hard to track and even harder to defend later. Project data rooms provide every job with a governed space, with role-based access, revision history, and a clean audit trail from kickoff through closeout.
Digital Workflows and Data Reporting
Swap out paper and email RFIs, submittals, change orders, and daily logs for structured e-forms with automated approval workflows, then turn project, safety, and financial data into dashboards your PMs can act on and executives can defend.
Governance and Lifecycle Management
Every project spins up sites, data rooms, and users, and most never get cleaned up. Envision IT governs the full lifecycle from provisioning to archiving, keeping oversharing and permission creep in check so that when you're ready for Copilot, the content estate is already clean.
How a National Engineering Firm put 36,000 Business Contacts at Every Engineer's Fingertips
See how one of Canada's leading engineering firms rebuilt its intranet, engineering manuals, and people directory on Microsoft 365. Distributed authoring, searchable knowledge across 321 manual pages and 13 disciplines, and a unified directory reaching 36,000 external partners, delivered for 700+ professionals across 11 offices.
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Static Site to Smart Search: How Smith + Andersen Modernized It's Intranet, Engineering Manuals, and People Directory
Every engineer at Smith + Andersen used to hunt for the right clause, the right colleague, the right consultant. Now, they find them in seconds. See how the firm rebuilt its intranet, engineering manuals, and people directory for 700 professionals across 10 offices using Extranet User Manager, Staff 365, and Envision IT's consulting services.
Read the full case studySearchable Engineering Knowledge
Engineers now find the right clause in seconds across 321 manual pages and 13 disciplines, with browsable indexes, faceted search, and auto-generated tables of contents replacing walls of static documents.
Unified People & Contact Directory
Staff 365 combined Entra ID with the firm's SQL source of truth, giving 700 engineers rich profile cards, Active/On Leave refiners, and mobile access to colleagues and 36,000 external partners from any job site.
Modern Self-Serve Intranet
Distributed authoring across departments turned a 2013-era SharePoint site into a living platform, with more pages published in a year than the old site had in over a decade.
We've Got the Complete Microsoft 365 Toolkit for Your Firm
M365 Strategy
Information architecture is designed for job numbers, project phases, and engineering disciplines, so M365 reflects how you work.
External Identity & Access
Onboard subs, consultants, owners, and field crews at scale using SSO, MFA, and delegated admin via your custom portal.
People & Knowledge Search
Turn engineering manuals, spec libraries, and staff directories into instant answers, on a desktop or on a phone at the job site.
Digital Workflows & Integrations
Replace paper- and email-driven RFIs, submittals, change orders, and daily logs with structured e-forms and automated approvals.
Project Data & Reporting
Project, safety, and financial dashboards your PMs can act on, owners can trust, and executives can defend at the board level.
Copilot Readiness
Prepare your Microsoft 365 tenant for Copilot by performing oversharing cleanup, tightening permissions, and governing the content estate.
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