Question 1

Can site offices with poor connectivity use virtual desktops?

Accepted Answer

Often better than the alternative. The desktop runs next to the model and drawing data in Azure, so only screen updates cross the site connection instead of large files. Smart Connect™ points each user at the most responsive desktop available to them.

Question 2

How quickly can we stand up a new project office?

Accepted Answer

Provision the project pool from your standard template. There is no hardware to order or build, so a new site office can have working desktops within the mobilisation week.

Question 3

What happens to the environment at handover?

Accepted Answer

Idle Host Detection surfaces pools that have gone quiet and scheduling shuts them down, so project capacity is reclaimed instead of becoming permanent overhead.

Question 4

Can subcontractors get access without joining our estate?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Give each trade or consultant a scoped host pool and Entra ID group with access only to the project data they need, revocable when their package completes.

Question 5

Can we charge IT costs to individual projects?

Accepted Answer

Host Pool Cost Tracking reports Azure compute cost per pool, so if pools are organised per project the spend is already attributed when it reaches project accounting.

Construction Virtual Desktops