Lairds of Troon · Technology engineers
Architectural AV Design & Technical Consultancy
Bridging the gap between creative vision and technical reality. We design systems that work, documented to the last cable.
Design. Document. Deliver.
Technology is complex. Construction is expensive. We ensure they align perfectly. By engaging Laird AV at the RIBA Plan of Work stages 2-4), we eliminate costly on-site clashes, clarify cable schedules for M&E teams, and ensure the final result matches the client’s dream. We don’t just “figure it out on site”, we engineer the outcome before the first wire is pulled.
CAD & Schematics
We provide full drawing packages to layer over architectural plans, ensuring perfect placement of hardware.- Rack Elevations
- Floorplan Overlays
- Reflected Ceiling Plans
Cable Schedules
Eliminate guesswork for electricians. We produce precise “Point-to-Point” cable schedules defining every connection.- Cable ID & Labelling
- Termination Types
- Cable Pathing
Lighting Design
Comprehensive planning for Lutron and control systems, ensuring load balancing and panel locations are accurate.- Load Schedules
- Panel Layouts
- Keypad Engraving
Acoustic & Heat
We model the invisible factors. Ensuring your rack room stays cool and your cinema sounds perfect.- BTU/Heat Calculations
- Speaker Dispersion Maps
- Sound Isolation Specs
User Interface (UI)
We design the “Human Experience.” Custom interfaces for touchscreens that are intuitive, branded, and simple to use.- Custom Graphics
- User Flow Design
- Branded Control Apps
Thermal Engineering
Electronics generate heat. We calculate BTU outputs and airflow requirements to ensure equipment never overheats.- Rack Cooling Systems
- Active Extraction
- Airflow Modelling
BMS Integration
We bridge the gap between AV and mechanical systems. Unifying underfloor heating, HVAC, and pool controls.- KnX / Crestron / Lutron
- HVAC Control Logic
- Energy Monitoring
VR Visualisation
Don’t just imagine the result—step inside it. We create immersive 3D VR walkthroughs before construction begins.- Modus VR Renderings
- Sightline Analysis
- Virtual “Seat Tests”
Trusted by Professionals
For Architects: We protect your aesthetic vision. By planning early, we hide technology within the fabric of the building—invisible speakers, hidden motorised lifts, and flush-mounted controls that blend into your joinery.
For M&E Consultants: We speak your language. We provide detailed power requirements, heat outputs, and data infrastructure specs, ensuring your mechanical and electrical plans are robust and conflict-free.
Start With a Solid Plan.
AV design and consultancy across Ayrshire, Glasgow and Edinburgh
We work from Marathon House in Dundonald, across Ayrshire, Glasgow and Edinburgh, and elsewhere in Scotland where the project justifies the travel. The design work is the same wherever it happens: resolve the technology on the drawing, before the walls close.
Work designed this way includes the Ballochmyle Estate project, a new build control system at Mauchline, and a modernised Victorian house.
Who we work with
Architects and design teams
You need the AV resolved at the same stage as the M&E, in a form you can issue. We produce drawings and schedules that coordinate with yours rather than arriving afterwards as a variation.
Interior designers
Your concern is what the technology does to the room. Most of our design decisions are about what is not visible: where speakers sit in a ceiling, how a keypad aligns to joinery, what a screen does to a wall when it is not in use.
Developers and main contractors
You need a specification that can be priced, repeated across plots and installed to programme. We design once and document it so the same room can be built the same way many times.
Private clients
You may be running your own project, or you may want a design you can put out to tender. Either works, and the design is yours in both cases.
How the design work runs
1. Brief and survey
We walk the building or the drawings, establish what you want the technology to do, and say early where an idea will not work in that space.
2. Concept and budget
An outline of the systems, what each one is for and what it is likely to cost, so the scope is agreed before anyone draws detail.
3. Detailed design
Containment routes, cable schedules, device positions, rack layout, power and ventilation. This is the stage that decides whether the installation is straightforward or a fight.
4. Tender or build
We issue documentation a contractor can price against. If you use us to install, the design fee is discounted against the project. If you do not, the design still stands on its own.
5. Site coordination
Attendance at the stages that matter, first fix and second fix, so that what was drawn is what gets built.
Questions we are asked
Can we buy the design without the installation?
Yes. The design is available as a standalone engagement, and what you receive is yours to tender or build with whoever you choose. We would rather produce a design that survives being handed to someone else than one that only works if we install it.
Is there a fee, and what happens if you then do the work?
There is a design fee, agreed before we start. If you go on to use us for the installation, that fee is discounted against the project. That way the design stands on its own commercially and you are not paying twice for the same thinking.
Do you produce tender documentation?
Yes. Drawings, schedules and specifications in a form a contractor can price against and an architect can issue. The point of tender-ready documentation is that three quotes come back comparable, rather than three different interpretations of the same room.
At what stage should we bring you in?
RIBA Stage 2 or 3, alongside the M&E design. The decisions that matter are structural and they are cheap on a drawing: riser positions, containment routes, ceiling voids, where equipment lives and how it is ventilated. After first fix, the design work becomes damage limitation.
What do we actually receive?
Drawings and schematics showing containment, cable routes, device positions and equipment locations, with schedules of what goes where. Enough for a contractor to install from and for you to hold someone to.
Will you specify equipment we can buy elsewhere?
Yes, and the specification says what a product needs to do as well as which one we have chosen. That means you can substitute on price and still know whether the substitute meets the requirement. A specification that only names products is not a specification.