Milhouse Engineering Manages the O'Hare Airport Project with GlobalSCAPE WAFS

In 2005, O’Hare International Airport began a project to relocate and modernize a 2.1 million ft.² runway. Five independent firms worked on the project design with the IT/data management led by Milhouse Engineering and Construction, Inc.

Milhouse implemented GlobalSCAPE WAFS which mirrors critical files to all sites. This provided fast local access to all project files automatically without any administrative burden and with no delays. Byte level differencing ensured bandwidth usage and cost was minimized and the projected file locking guaranteed that everybody worked on the most recent data. It was simple to deploy even across 5 independent companies and provided access even in WAN outages. The deployment provided centralized control by Milhouse and a secure way to recover files should an accidental deletion happen.