AV Wall Elevations: Mounting Heights, Blocking and Backboxes
AV wall elevations are the drawings that get built before the equipment exists. The wall is framed, the blocking goes in, the backboxes are set and…
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AV wall elevations are the drawings that get built before the equipment exists. The wall is framed, the blocking goes in, the backboxes are set and…
Read articleAV commissioning is the point where the system meets the documents. Every check asks the same question — does it do what it should? — and…
Read articleTheme park AV drawings document a system that performs for a moving audience. In a theatre the audience sits still and the show happens in front…
Read articleAirport AV drawings are drawn for a building with a security line through the middle of it, a timetable that never stops, and an operator who…
Read articleBroadcast studio AV drawings describe a system where everything is connected to everything else, and most of it has to agree on time. In a meeting…
Read articleMuseum AV drawings are drawn for a building whose real client is not a person. In most AV work the equipment serves the people in the…
Read articleHotel AV drawings look like the easiest vertical in the trade until you count the rooms. A hotel has fewer genuinely difficult spaces than a hospital…
Read articleMarine AV drawings are the hardest documentation in the trade, and almost nobody writes about them. A yacht refit takes everything that makes a building project…
Read articleResidential AV drawings get treated as a lighter version of commercial ones, and that is the mistake. A custom home has fewer devices, a smaller budget…
Read articleLoudspeaker coverage is the other calculation on an AV drawing that is pure geometry. Like a projector throw, it comes down to a distance, an angle…
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