AV Drawings for Houses of Worship: What Changes
House of worship AV is some of the most demanding documentation an integrator will produce, and it rarely gets treated that way. A sanctuary asks for…
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House of worship AV is some of the most demanding documentation an integrator will produce, and it rarely gets treated that way. A sanctuary asks for…
Read articleAn AV site survey is the half day that decides whether your drawings describe the building or describe the drawings. Architectural files tell you what was…
Read articleEvery AV drawing sits on top of somebody else’s drawing. Get the architectural backgrounds right and the AV set almost draws itself; get them wrong and…
Read articleControl room AV drawings are the most demanding documentation most integrators produce. A command centre packs a video wall, a dozen operator positions, continuous occupancy and…
Read articleHealthcare AV drawings carry constraints that corporate and education work simply does not: infection control procedures that govern when you can open a ceiling, clinical equipment…
Read articleMost AV integrators meet the permit process late, and usually badly — a general contractor asks for your sheets to go into the permit set, an…
Read articleAV CAD drafting is the process of producing scaled technical drawings for audio, video and control systems using computer-aided design software such as AutoCAD. Those drawings…
Read articleWhether you are working AV design-build or bidding to someone else’s specification changes almost everything about your drawings — who produces them, who owns the risk…
Read articleAV trade coordination is the work of making sure the electrician, the cabling contractor, the ceiling crew and the general contractor all know what the AV…
Read articleAn AV over IP network diagram is the sheet that turns a networked AV system into something a contractor can actually build and a network team…
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