Case Study: McIlwain Civil Engineering improves job site safety and remote visibility with Verkada

How a Top Australian Contractor Leads Job Site Safety with Verkada

McIlwain Civil Engineering, a leading Australian contractor, needed a better way to secure and monitor remote road, bridge, and infrastructure job sites across Queensland and New South Wales. Their legacy CCTV systems were difficult to maintain in rugged, low-connectivity environments, requiring frequent trips to troubleshoot power and network issues. They turned to Verkada’s Command platform with cameras and LTE connectivity to improve visibility, safety, and site oversight.

With Verkada, McIlwain Civil Engineering deployed solar-powered cameras, cellular gateways, and PTZ cameras to support remote security, traffic automation, project monitoring, and evidence sharing. The results included saving more than 3 hours per site visit, reducing footage sharing time from 2–3 hours to under 30 minutes, cutting 9 traffic controllers per day on one project, and enabling 20 remote traffic gates to be managed from a single site. Verkada also helped McIlwain reduce maintenance demands to near zero and improve compliance and incident response across its worksites.

McIlwain Civil Engineering

Kyle Mitchell

IT Manager