Your data infrastructure.Built or managed.
We design, build, and operate modern data platforms for construction — Databricks lakehouses, SQL Server modernization, ingestion from P6, Procore, Bluebeam, Aconex, and your ERP, Unity Catalog governance, and Bronze → Silver → Gold curation. Hand it off to your team — or let us manage it for you ongoing. Your call.
What We Deliver
Where Excel Breaks. What You Get Instead.
Most construction companies run their business on spreadsheets and email. It works — until it doesn't.
Where Excel breaks
What you get instead
Three Pillars of The Platform
Every engagement combines all three — but we always lead with whichever is causing the most pain today.
Platform Migration
Excel → SQL → Databricks
The journey from spreadsheets and legacy SQL to a modern lakehouse. We design the target architecture, build it on Databricks, migrate your data with parallel validation, and cut over with zero downtime. Most clients are off Excel for their key workflows within 60 days.
Tool Integration & Ingestion
P6 · Procore · Bluebeam · Aconex · ERP
Daily, hourly, or streaming feeds from every tool your projects touch. We build the ingestion layer that pulls scheduling, doc control, drawings, field reporting, and accounting into one governed data layer — automatically, without anyone exporting to a spreadsheet.
Governance & Curation
Unity Catalog · RBAC · Bronze/Silver/Gold
Once data is flowing, governance is what makes it trustworthy. We implement Unity Catalog for access control, row-level security by project or division, medallion architecture for data quality, and lineage tracking so every number can be traced to its source.
Medallion Architecture — Bronze → Silver → Gold
The data curation pattern we apply on every engagement. Raw source data on one end, executive-ready datasets on the other — every layer auditable and traceable.
Every export, API call, and file landed exactly as received — P6 XER files, Procore JSON, daily report PDFs, accounting extracts. Immutable, audit-friendly, the system of record for what came in.
Validated, deduplicated, normalized. Projects, WBS, cost codes, and crew identifiers reconciled across tools. The layer where business entities take shape — Project, Activity, Cost Code, RFI, Submittal — usable for analytics and joins.
Executive-ready datasets. Project P&L, schedule SPI/CPI, productivity benchmarks, safety scorecards, portfolio rollups. The layer Power BI dashboards, ML models, and AI agents query directly.
Why We Build On Databricks
We're platform-agnostic — but Databricks is what we recommend for construction operations of any meaningful scale. Here's why.
Lakehouse, not data lake
You get the structure of a warehouse and the scale of a lake — without picking one or the other.
Unity Catalog for governance
One governance layer across every project, division, and data product. RLS, lineage, audit logs — built in.
Spark for any data scale
Whether you have one project or a hundred, the platform doesn't hit a wall. From GB to PB on the same architecture.
Delta Lake for trust
ACID transactions on the lakehouse. Schema enforcement. Time-travel queries. Your data is dependable, not "best effort".
ML & AI native
MLflow, Feature Store, and serverless model serving built in. Your AI agents and ML models run where the data lives.
Cost-effective at scale
Pay-per-use compute. Auto-termination. Spot instances. Production-grade platforms for a fraction of legacy warehouse costs.
Reference Architectures
Three starting points we adapt to your tool mix, project scale, and where you're starting from today.
Spreadsheet-to-Lakehouse
For contractors running their business on Excel and SharePoint. We replace the spreadsheet chaos with a Databricks lakehouse, ingest from your existing tools, and rebuild the reports your team relies on — so the migration feels invisible to the end users.
SQL Server → Databricks
For organizations with deep SQL Server investments. We migrate transactional and reporting workloads onto Databricks, keep what makes sense in SQL Server, and bridge them with Azure Data Factory. AI-ready from day one.
Real-Time Field Reporting
When safety incidents, equipment failures, or productivity slips need to surface in minutes — not the next morning's report. Event-driven ingestion from field apps, streaming pipelines into Delta, and live dashboards for superintendents.
How We Execute Migrations
A structured, risk-mitigated approach — from a single workflow off Excel to a full platform migration.
Current State Audit
We catalog every Excel file, SQL Server database, project archive, tool integration, and reporting workflow. Nothing gets overlooked — including the spreadsheets nobody admits to maintaining.
Target Architecture Design
Databricks lakehouse target, ingestion patterns per tool, medallion layout (Bronze/Silver/Gold), governance model with Unity Catalog. Full documentation before any code is written.
Parallel Run & Validation
Run source systems and the new platform in parallel. We validate every metric, every project, every cost code — until the new platform matches reality and your team trusts it.
Cutover & Handoff
Zero-downtime cutover. Runbooks, training, documentation. Your PMs, schedulers, and IT own the platform end-to-end — query, extend, and add to it without us.
Build it for your team. Or manage it for you.
Build & hand off. We design and build the platform, then train your team and hand it over — full documentation, runbooks, source code ownership. Your PMs, schedulers, analysts, and IT can query, extend, and add to it without us. No lock-in.
Or, managed services. If you'd rather not staff for data engineering, we run the platform ongoing — monitoring, pipeline health, model retraining, schema evolution, new tool onboarding. Monthly retainer, no surprises.
Additional Data Engineering Services
Cloud Migration
On-prem SQL Server and file shares → Azure / AWS with zero-downtime cutover
Project Security & Audit
Row-level security by project, owner, or division — with full audit trails
CI/CD for Data
DataOps pipelines with automated testing, deployment, and rollback
Data Quality Monitoring
Drawing-rev consistency, schedule-data drift, and anomaly alerting
Let's Move Your Operation Off Excel
Free 30-minute discovery call. We'll map your current data state — Excel files, SQL Server, project tools — and sketch the right architecture for where your operation is going. No pitch, just an honest conversation.