Branch offices in Cairns and Ayr have rapidly extended the company's reach, with 21 employees now spread across Queensland, and the award-winning builders enjoying the kind of growth opportunities to make any director proud.

To support this growth, however, founders Wayne and Therese Lamont have also had to grow up quickly when it comes to their IT infrastructure.

Having started off with a single PC in a spare bedroom, their 'network' soon grew to include two PCs and things just got more complicated from there.

The company recently renovated the stand-alone office it moved into several years ago, adding a second floor and a host of potential workspaces with scores of conventional data ports.

Recognizing all the hallmark signs of a network that could quickly grow out of control, the Lamonts have worked with local integrator PromoNet to keep their costs low and scalability high. Initially, this resulted in a file-and-print-based infrastructure built entirely around Sun Solaris servers running the BizPrac Toolbox administrative application, and accessed by employees using conventional Windows desktops.