Audio Visual Consulting & AV System Design in New York

What Does an Audio Visual Consultant Do?

An audio visual consultant defines what a space needs and documents how to build it: requirements, room standards, drawings, specifications and a realistic budget. Our AV consultants work for owners, architects and IT teams on New York office build-outs, amenity floors, boardrooms and multi-room conference programs.

Consulting can stand alone — for planning, bidding or a second opinion on another integrator's proposal — or lead straight into installation by our team. On the General Motors Building amenity renovation, our consulting scope included sound mapping, projector mapping, construction documents, budget validation and construction management.

• Needs analysis and program of requirements
• Room standards and technology roadmaps
• AV drawings and specifications for bidding
• Budget validation and value engineering
• Proposal and submittal review
• Construction administration for the AV scope

General Motors Building AV consulting project

Why Should AV Design Come Before Purchase?

The commonest failure in commercial AV is not bad equipment; it is equipment specified before anyone measured the room, asked IT about the network or found out how the organization actually meets. Design fixes those questions first. It sizes displays from viewing distances, chooses microphones from ceiling heights and finishes, positions cameras for the table, plans conduit and backing before walls close, confirms network and power, and produces a budget the organization can rely on.

For build-outs the design becomes part of the construction documents, so the general contractor bids the AV infrastructure alongside everything else and there are no surprises after the ceilings are in.

AV Consulting and Construction Management

On larger projects we act as the owner's AV consultant: writing the AV scope into construction documents, validating budgets, reviewing contractor submittals, attending coordination meetings and managing the AV scope through construction. The General Motors Building amenity renovation — 18,381 square feet of presentation hall, event space, restaurant and gym — was delivered this way: sound mapping, projector mapping, construction documents, budget validation and construction management from design through completion.

General Motors Building AV consulting project

AV Design for Architects, Contractors and IT Teams

Architects use our design to coordinate AV with ceilings, millwork and finishes. General contractors use it to bid and build the infrastructure. IT teams use it to plan the network, identity and management side. Facilities and workplace teams use it to standardize rooms and plan budgets across years. Design can be engaged on its own — for planning, for bidding, for a second opinion — with installation by us or by another contractor.

Commercial AV integration