The Right Audio Visual Integrator Makes All the Difference.

You want to upgrade the audio visual capabilities of your existing facility, or you want to build better audio visual systems into your new facility.  Choosing the right AV professional to help you plan, design, install, and maintain your new system can make your life much easier.

Choose your AV Integrator with these four areas of service in mind.  Planning, Design, Installation, and Maintenance

Planning 
Find an integrator who has experience.  Check on how long they have been providing this type of service, and whether they have done the same types of facilities before.

You have an idea of how you want your building, suite, or room to perform for sight and sound.  Since this isn't an area that you deal with every day, find a professional who can look at your plan and ask the right questions to make certain you are thinking of all of the things you really need.  

With a comprehensive plan in place, your integrator should be able to apply costs to the various features you want.  Your integrator should have the knowledge to help you choose where to cut or add in order to meet your budget and still achieve what you want.

Design
With your needs expressed in a basic plan and budget, your AV Integrator needs to have the experience and knowledge to select the right equipment, marry them to the right applications, and design the most efficient distribution through cabling or wireless.  Again you want to see that your AV professional has the experience to handle this daunting task. 

When choosing the right AV Integrator review the facilities they have in their portfolio.  Choose some of their installations that match fairly closely what you need.  Arrange a visit to these facilities with your prospective AV Integrator.  Take the tour, push the buttons, touch the screens, see and hear the results.  Are the controls intuitive?  Is the design effective?  Choose the designer who has put together systems that you feel comfortable using, and that you feel meet your needs.

The design also has to function within the limitations of walls, floors, and other requirements that you have in your building.  Your choice for an AV integrator must communicate with other people involved in the project including architects, general contractors, and the other sub-contractors.  Make certain that your choice has the professionalism to deal with the other people involved, and is proficient in AutoCAD, the language of construction design.

Installation
Your choice for an AV Integrator must be able to carry through with the planning and design work.  When you make your site visits to your prospective installer’s previous completed projects, look at the quality of the installation.  Did it fit well in the overall construction of the facility?  Was the job done neatly and professionally?  Take a look behind the equipment to see if the cabling is adequately labeled, and neatly arranged.  The brains of your AV Integrator choice must reach out with caring hands to complete the work you need done.

Most system upgrades and of course all new construction require teamwork.  You will have numerous contractors all working to meet your time-line and budgets.  Is your AV Integrator known by your architect or contractor?  Were your AV Integrator’s previous customers happy with the speed and efficiency of the installation crew?

Choose and AV Integrator who has shown they can get the job done well in a busy environment.

Maintenance
Once your AV system has been installed and fine-tuned, you need someone who will stand with you to keep it running well, provide upgrades where necessary, and repairs when required.  Your choice for an AV Integrator needs to give you this support after the installation. 

How long has the prospective AV contractor been around?  Talk to the references of your prospective AV Integrator.  What issues have come up with their systems?  How well has the AV Integrator responded?  Is the AV company knowledgeable about the evolutions of the industry’s technology and application?

Choose well
You have toured facilities, talked with past and present users of your AV Integrator, and have talked with contractors who have worked with and around them.  You are comfortable that your choice can help you with your AV plan, can create an effective and efficient AV design, provide you with an installation crew who cares, and you know that your AV Integrator will be around to help you maintain and improve your audio and visual equipment.

Doing your research and choosing the right AV professional will allow your system to perform the way you need to, while limiting the concerns and frustrations.

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