For architects and interior designers
Commercial Technology Design
Bring security, audiovisual, network, and low-voltage infrastructure into the project while they can still strengthen the architecture—not after the finishes are selected.
A specialist at the design table
Technology deserves the same early attention as lighting, acoustics, landscape, and other design disciplines.
Commercial buildings depend on access control, video surveillance, intrusion detection, fire interfaces, conference systems, displays, networks, and structured cabling. Those systems are too often deferred until late construction, when device locations, pathways, millwork, ceilings, door hardware, and power are difficult to change.
Kelltech gives architects and interior designers a dedicated low-voltage resource during programming, schematic design, design development, and construction documentation. We translate owner needs into coordinated decisions that protect the design intent and make the project clearer to price, build, commission, and support.
The value proposition
We extend your services and help the finished project reflect well on your team.
Preserve the visual concept
We coordinate cameras, readers, displays, speakers, racks, panels, pathways, and controls with ceiling plans, elevations, millwork, lighting, and finishes. Technology should feel intentional rather than attached to a completed interior.
Reduce late surprises
Early decisions clarify power, cooling, network, door hardware, backing, conduit, cable routes, and equipment space before they become field conflicts. The architect, consultants, and contractor receive better information for coordination and pricing.
Make client conversations easier
We turn broad owner expectations into practical options, budgets, and performance criteria. Your team gains a specialist who can answer technical questions without forcing the architect or designer to become the technology expert.
Create a supportable result
Design choices are evaluated for appearance, performance, cybersecurity, commissioning, service access, expansion, and long-term ownership. A beautiful project should remain understandable after occupancy.
A peer design discipline
Low-voltage design closes a gap that architectural and engineering sets do not always cover in detail.
Just as a lighting designer protects the experience of light, an acoustical consultant protects sound quality, and a landscape designer shapes the exterior environment, a technology consultant protects how electronic systems function and appear within the architecture. The discipline touches ceilings, walls, doors, millwork, equipment rooms, reception areas, conference rooms, loading areas, parking, and the IT environment.
Kelltech works within the architect’s process. We can attend design meetings, review drawings, develop device plans and risers, coordinate specifications, respond to RFIs and submittals, review substitutions, and support commissioning. Our job is to make the architect and designer more complete in the owner’s eyes, not compete for control of the design.
Flexible engagement
Independent design consulting or one accountable design-build partner.
Standalone design and RFP consulting
Kelltech can develop or analyze owner requirements, prepare plans, system narratives, device schedules, specifications, budgets, and bid documents, and help evaluate proposals. This supports competitive procurement while giving bidders a consistent basis for pricing.
We can also review an existing RFP or consultant package for gaps, conflicting assumptions, product restrictions, serviceability, and alignment with the owner’s operating needs.
Design, installation, and lifecycle service
Kelltech can package design with installation, programming, testing, training, monitoring, and ongoing service. The same local organization that coordinated the details remains accountable for delivering and supporting them.
Experienced Kelltech technicians complete the installation rather than subcontractors, creating continuity between design intent, field conditions, commissioning, and future service.
A practical process
From owner requirements to a coordinated, supportable system.
- Discover.Define operations, risks, experience, aesthetics, budget, standards, and future growth with the owner and design team.
- Survey and program.Review conditions, IT constraints, door hardware, equipment spaces, and system interfaces.
- Coordinate.Develop locations, pathways, power, rack requirements, risers, schedules, and details alongside architectural and engineering documents.
- Procure.Prepare or analyze an RFP, compare scope, identify exclusions, and evaluate substitutions on more than price alone.
- Deliver and verify.Support submittals, field coordination, testing, training, closeout, and the transition to service.
Commercial scope
One coordinated view across connected systems.
- Access control and door-hardware coordination
- Video surveillance coverage and privacy
- Intrusion detection and monitoring
- Fire and life-safety interfaces
- Visitor management, intercom, and entry
- Conference and distributed audiovisual systems
- Structured cabling, networks, and Wi-Fi
- Power, pathways, cooling, and service clearances
- Budgets, alternates, phasing, and RFP support
- Submittal review, testing, and closeout
Frequently asked questions
Technology design consulting
When should Kelltech join the design team?
Design development is often ideal, but earlier is welcome while owner programming is taking shape. Joining before ceilings, doors, millwork, electrical requirements, and equipment rooms are fixed gives the team more options and cleaner coordination.
Can Kelltech work under the architect?
Yes. We can structure the engagement around the architect’s established process and contract path. Scope, deliverables, reliance, and communication responsibilities are defined at the outset so decisions are documented clearly.
Can you prepare a vendor-neutral RFP?
Yes. We can define performance requirements, narratives, drawings, schedules, and bid forms that give qualified bidders a consistent scope. Where a platform is justified, we distinguish required outcomes from unnecessary product restrictions.
What if another contractor installs the systems?
That works with a standalone design engagement. Kelltech can support bidding, submittal review, RFIs, observations, testing criteria, and closeout so the design team retains informed oversight.
Bring technology into the design conversation
Add an experienced low-voltage designer to your project team.
Share the project stage, anticipated systems, and current drawing set. Kelltech will help define a practical next step.