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We use a consultative, goal-oriented approach to planning high-performing buildings, acting as your data detective and your trusted advisor. This starts by working closely with key stakeholders to understand how a building will function and the people it will serve. We conduct interviews, analyze data, and consider each technology system needed and its functionality to meet overall connectivity goals.
Next, the team dives into the data and draws upon our deep experience delivering smart buildings to develop a technology project strategy. This includes analyzing constructability, planning for potential complications, and creating recommendations for the project timeline and procurement selections. Throughout this process, we emphasize future proofing and are always brand agnostic.
Finally, we deliver a project execution strategy. This is a roadmap for your building’s intelligent integration. It includes scopes, schedules, material needs, risk analyses, and cost estimates. The goal of the strategy is to ensure that every aspect of the technology package is addressed and that expectations are understood, agreed upon, and achievable.
Our in-house Design Phase Services team creates robust drawings detailing every aspect of a project’s technology infrastructure. Think of this infrastructure as the ‘digital rebar’ within the building. It’s a critical component that must be planned early. Our designers carefully consider how to maximize the usable space in a building, how to reduce equipment costs, and how to achieve connectivity goals with the most efficient designs. The technology system design then becomes the blueprint for delivering a fully connected building that is ready to operate on day one.
While our focus is on the entirety of the technology ecosystem, below is an overview of the common individual systems we design.
structured cabling
structured cabling
Successful building technology integration starts with a telecom backbone infrastructure that is efficiently designed with future expansion in mind. Our designs are thorough and provide clients with visuals of how systems will be laid out throughout their building. Our designers consider the bandwidth required to support the digital network and system connectivity that supports high-performance spaces.
security systems
security systems
Security systems tend to be unique and complex. Coordinating security systems between clients, IT groups, and security monitoring services requires firsthand knowledge of how these systems are built and integrated through a network. Aptitude’s design team uses its proprietary tool, the Aptitude Camera Planner, to create 3D simulations providing precise placement of cameras down to the inch.
audio visual
audio visual
It’s one thing to install an audio-visual (AV) system, but it’s another to design a custom AV plan optimized to meet end-user needs. Our AV experts focus not only on individual AV components, but also on how each component functions together. With advanced design tools, we work with the client to help them visualize the design that will best meet their AV goals.
Virtual design & construction services
Virtual design & construction services
Aptitude’s staff of virtual design and construction (VDC) technicians are among the best in the business, with years of commercial construction, low-voltage system, and BIM/VDC experience. Working VDC into the preconstruction process helps perfect designs and ensure goals are being met, and it reduces install time and costly rework during construction.
