Technology planning and design.

A technology plan for a new build, remodel, retrofit, or upgrade, drawn before anything is bought: what goes where, and what it connects to.

Floor plan drawings, a scale ruler, pencils and samples of oak, limestone and brass on a table, seen from above

Why design the technology
before buying equipment?

Because most of the failures we are called to fix were decided before installation: a rack with no ventilation, a network with no capacity, keypads nobody agreed on. A design settles those decisions on paper, with your architect and designer, while changes still cost nothing.

The scope.

01A needs assessment and a written brief
02Drawings, elevations, and device locations agreed with your architect and designer
03Equipment room, rack, power, heat, and cable routes
04A device schedule the trades can build from

What you do not see.

A finished double-height living room with a limestone fireplace wall, an oatmeal sofa and tall steel windows onto a lawn with bare oaks. — 02Every device located on the drawings

A studio wall with twelve drawings pinned in a grid on a gray felt board beside oak shelves of stone, wood, fabric and metal samples. — 03Plans, elevations, device schedule

The timber frame of a new house seen from inside at golden hour, with a swept floor and bare oaks beyond the open stud walls. — 01Cable routes set before drywall

Questions worth asking early.

When should technology design start?

Before the electrical plan is fixed. On a new build or a major renovation that is usually during design development, so cable routes and device locations are in the drawings rather than added later.

Is a design useful for an existing home?

Yes. For a retrofit or upgrade the design starts from an evaluation of what is installed, then sets out what stays, what goes, and in what order.