Commercial AV Integration in New York

What Is Commercial AV Integration?

Commercial AV integration is the discipline of making individual audiovisual components — displays, cameras, microphones, loudspeakers, signal processors, control systems, conferencing platforms and the network they run on — work as a single, documented, supportable system. The integrator is responsible for the outcome: the room works, the people who use it understand it, the people who support it have the documentation, and it keeps working as software and hardware change.

That responsibility is what distinguishes an integration company from an equipment reseller or a general electrical contractor. A reseller is responsible for delivering boxes. An electrician is responsible for power and cable. A commercial AV integrator is responsible for the meeting starting on time.

Commercial AV Installation Services in New York

Commercial AV installation is the physical build of an audiovisual system: mounting displays and cameras, running and terminating cable, building racks and installing microphones, loudspeakers and control. As an AV installation company in New York, we install to our own designs or to an existing specification, with every room tested and documented before handover.

Installation work in Manhattan buildings is planned around certificates of insurance, freight elevator windows, after-hours rules and plenum cabling requirements, so installs land on schedule in occupied offices.

• Display, projector and video wall mounting
• Camera, ceiling microphone and loudspeaker installation
• Plenum-rated cabling, termination and labeling
• Rack builds and equipment room fit-out
• Control panels, scheduling displays and wireless presentation
• Testing, commissioning and as-built documentation

Commercial Audiovisual Systems We Integrate

Conference rooms are the largest part of our work, but integration extends to every space where an organization presents, communicates or gathers.

• Conference room AV — displays, cameras, microphones, DSP, control, Teams/Zoom/Webex
• Video conferencing systems and room standards
• Boardrooms and executive spaces with concealed technology
• Training rooms and divisible rooms with room combining
• Town hall and all-hands spaces with video walls or projection and streaming
• Commercial audio — ceiling microphones, loudspeakers, DSP, paging, background music
• Video walls — direct-view LED and tiled LCD
• Digital signage and lobby displays
• AV control systems and room automation
• AV-over-IP distribution across floors and buildings
• Wireless presentation and room scheduling

Conference room AV installation

Multi-Room and Multi-Floor AV Deployments

Large New York offices are not one room; they are forty rooms in five sizes. We design a small set of room standards, stage and pre-configure equipment off site, and install floor by floor so the office never loses more than a few rooms at a time. Every room is commissioned against the same checklist, labeled the same way, enrolled in the same management platform and covered by the same service agreement. The result is one interface for staff, one configuration for IT and one vendor accountable for all of it.

Meeting room standards across an office

AV Integration for New York Office Build-Outs

In a new build-out the best time to plan AV is when the architect is still drawing. Backing for displays, conduit for cameras and microphones, ceiling coordination for speakers and projectors, power and data at the right locations, millwork for concealed equipment — all of it costs little on paper and a great deal after the walls are closed. We work with architects, general contractors and electrical contractors on construction documents, attend coordination meetings and manage the AV scope through the build. The General Motors Building amenity renovation below is an example of AV consulting integrated with construction documentation and construction management.

AV system design and consulting

An AV Integrator Based in Manhattan

Our office is in SoHo, and our work is in the office towers of Midtown, the Financial District, Hudson Yards, Flatiron and Chelsea, the converted industrial buildings of Brooklyn and Long Island City, and institutional facilities across Queens, the Bronx and Staten Island. Working in New York buildings requires familiarity with certificates of insurance, freight scheduling, union and after-hours requirements, plenum cabling rules, landlord approval for penetrations and landmark restrictions — we plan every project around them.