A frozen workstation during a deadline push, a corrupted model, or a file server choking on a 4 GB Revit file costs your firm billable hours it never gets back. Blue Tree Technology is a women-owned managed IT services provider (MSP) headquartered in Riverside, MO. Blue Tree Technology provides managed IT services, cybersecurity, and IT compliance to businesses across the Kansas City metro. Blue Tree Technology provides engineering firm IT support in Kansas City, MO, for civil, structural, mechanical, and MEP practices, along with the architecture studios they design alongside.
Engineering IT is not office IT with bigger monitors. Files are enormous, workstations are specialized, and teams spread across offices and job sites still work from a single, current model. We keep all of it running so your engineers stay in the model, not on the phone with support.
CAD workstations and high-performance storage
Your production tools dictate your hardware, not the other way around. Blue Tree Technology specs, deploys, and maintains workstations and storage for Autodesk AutoCAD and Revit, SOLIDWORKS, Rhino, and Bentley applications:
- Workstation builds matched to certified GPUs and each application's real memory appetite, so hardware never bottlenecks a deadline
- High-performance file storage tuned for large-file workloads, because a fifteen-minute model open time is a retention problem waiting to happen
- Proactive replacement planning, so machines are refreshed on a schedule instead of failing mid-project
- License server management, so a network license always checks out when a seat is needed
- Plotter, large-format printing, and scanning support, because deliverables are still paper more often than owners admit
24/7 monitoring from Blue Tree Technology means a failing drive in the file server gets swapped before Monday's deadline push finds it.
BIM collaboration across offices and job sites
Multi-office collaboration is where engineering firms feel IT pain first. Blue Tree Technology builds the sync, cloud, and access layer that keeps distributed teams in one coordinated model, supporting BIM 360, Newforma, and Bentley collaboration workflows:
- Revit worksharing and BIM 360 cloud models configured so remote teams stop overwriting each other's work
- Cloud services sized for design workloads, not generic office file shares
- Site connectivity and secure remote access, so field engineers pull the current drawing set instead of last week's
- Newforma project information management tied into email and file shares, so transmittals and RFIs are findable years later
Whether you share models with an architect of record, a general contractor, or a DOT reviewer, Blue Tree Technology makes sure access is granted cleanly at kickoff and cut when the project closes. When a new office or a merged firm joins the network, the same collaboration layer extends to them in days, not months.
Microsoft 365 for the office side of the firm
Proposals, contracts, and project correspondence live in email and SharePoint even when the models live on the file server. Blue Tree Technology manages Microsoft 365 for engineering firms so the office layer is as dependable as the production layer:
- Teams and SharePoint structured by project, mirroring your drawing file structure instead of fighting it
- Email retention that preserves project correspondence for the life of a claim window
- External sharing controls, so a subconsultant's access ends when their scope does
- A 24/7 IT help desk for the everyday questions that otherwise land on a principal's desk
Cybersecurity built for design firms
Your drawings, calculations, and bid data are your product, and attackers know AEC firms wire large progress payments. Blue Tree Technology protects Kansas City engineering firms with a layered, documented security program:
- Sophos endpoint detection and response on every workstation and server, backed by 24/7 monitoring
- Multi-factor authentication everywhere, plus payment verification procedures that shut down wire fraud attempts before money moves
- Tested backup and recovery so ransomware never holds a project archive hostage
- Security awareness training, because the spoofed subcontractor invoice arrives in your project manager's inbox first
- An incident response plan aligned to Mo. Rev. Stat. §407.1500, Missouri's data breach notification law, with the Missouri Insurance Data Security Act (HB 974, effective January 1, 2026) covered for firms doing work for insurance clients
Blue Tree Technology specializes in SOC 2, HIPAA, and PCI DSS compliance, and applies that same control discipline, built on the CIS Controls and NIST frameworks, to firms that simply need to pass a client's security questionnaire. See the full picture on our cybersecurity services page.
How engineering firms get started with Blue Tree Technology
It starts with a free 15-minute discovery call. Blue Tree Technology then runs its proprietary 12-Point IT Systems Assessment, conducted 100% remote, and returns a prioritized plan with clear pricing. Fresh eyes see things that others cannot.
Most firms then move to Blue Tree Managed IT: one flat monthly plan covering managed IT services, the 24/7 help desk, Sophos endpoint detection and response, and 24/7 monitoring with proactive support. Firms with an internal IT person keep them and add our depth through co-managed IT.
Blue Tree Technology serves engineering and architecture firms in Kansas City, Overland Park, Lenexa, Olathe, North Kansas City, and more than a dozen other Kansas City–metro communities. Explore our other industry pages, including manufacturing and financial firms.
Engineering firm IT support FAQs
Straight answers from Blue Tree Technology for principals and the partner who got handed IT. Prefer to talk it through? Call sales at 816-256-2595 or book your free 15-minute discovery call.
