Built to Last: COVID-19 Drives McLaren's Infrastructure Modernization To meet pandemic requirements, McLaren Construction Group accelerated its infrastructure modernization work, resulting in a scalable, agile cloud-based architecture that improves its file storage and protection. While it’s tempting to think of the construction industry as one of the last holdouts against modern technology and processes, that’s far from the truth. Construction companies today are actively adopting everything from artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and augmented reality to 3D printing, robotics and supply chain optimization. That’s the path McLaren Construction Group was on when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived, causing the UK-based company to speed up an already ambitious infrastructure modernization plan, improve file storage and data protection, and become a cloud-first enterprise. The company, which has operated throughout the UK and United Arab Emirates since 2001, had been growing exponentially year over year, and its existing infrastructure was showing signs of strain.