Modernising infrastructure with

a scalable Azure Cloud Platform

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Project at a glance

Challenge

An international engineering, architecture, project management, and construction firm needed to move away from aging on-premises infrastructure and adopt a scalable, cloud-first model to support global teams and mission-critical workloads.

To achieve this, the organisation transitioned to Azure, enabling greater flexibility and scalability while removing the need for ongoing hardware refresh cycles. This cloud-first approach allows geographically dispersed users to securely access systems and applications, ensuring consistent performance and supporting critical operations across regions.

 

Solution we designed

Codec implemented an enterprise Azure landing zone with secure, multi-region architecture, governance guardrails, and scalable infrastructure to enable migration and long-term innovation.

Impact we delivered

  • Reduced infrastructure costs

  • Improved scalability and flexibility

  • Strengthened security

  • Enabled a modern, cloud-first IT operating model.

Solution

Building a secure Azure foundation for growth

Codec built an Enterprise Azure landing zone environment that follows key design principles across eight design areas. These design principles accommodate all application portfolios and enabled application migration, modernisation, and innovation at scale. The Azure landing zone uses governance guardrails to isolate and scale application resources and platform resources. 

The multi-region landing zones utilised secure hub-and-spoke networking, perimeter security protection, identity federation and policy-based governance.

Once built, the construction company were able to start on their journey of migrating on premise infrastructure to a secure, reliable and scalable Azure environment. Initially starting with small workloads this increased to include all scoped infrastructure across multiple geographies.

On an ongoing basis we perform platform reviews and migration/design services: along with the ability to draw down SIAM-style managed services/vendor relationship services aligned to GDPR/NIS2.

The construction company has access to specialised expertise: Availability of Codec MVP-level cloud security and governance expertise to support the environment.

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Results

Impact we delivered

  • Optimised costs: There has been significant savings in resource, maintenance, and real estate costs, in addition to the ability to optimise workloads so that they cost less to run.
  • Scalability: Our client can swiftly adjust their compute resources automatically in response to increasing demand or when more powerful capabilities are required.
  • Flexibility: Allowing our client to maintain a global presence so that the wider organisation can improve performance by running workloads closer to where their users are.
  • Enhanced security: Built-in security features and specialised cloud security tools help ensure that the companies’ resources are protected.
  • Reduces Overhead: Significant savings in resource, maintenance, and real estate costs by decommissioning on-premises hardware.

 

Results

Since its launch, the construction company's new cloud infrastructure solution has become an integral part of the daily IT operations, accelerating its ability to expand its global employee base. 

By helping the company transition, Codec’s infrastructure solution delivered the following outcomes:

  • Accelerated environment deployment time to onboard new users in days, rather than weeks.
  • Enabled secure, predictable and cost-controlled delivery of new environments to reduce spin-up costs without compromising performance or security.
  • Preserved platform flexibility to seamlessly accommodate new solution integrations in the future. 

Published May 2026.

"The customer is now equipped with a modern, scalable, and secure cloud environment ready for the next generation of engineering innovation"

ICT Manager

Codec

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