Lairds of Troon · Since 1999
Technology projects in Scotland
Completed work in private houses, estates, bars, restaurants, boardrooms and commercial buildings. Every project starts with the infrastructure: structured cabling, enterprise networking and cyber security. What the client sees and uses is built on top of it.
Four kinds of building, one method. Choose the one closest to yours.
Private houses and estatesBars, restaurants, hotels and workplacesDesign and consultancyEvents and community
Private houses and estates
Owners and their architects ask for the same three things: nothing on show, one control for the whole house, and a system that still works when the person who commissioned it is away. We are usually appointed at RIBA Stage 2 or 3, before first fix, because that is when the decisions that are expensive to reverse get made.
Greystones, Kilmacolm
Whole-house control in 2021, then a top-floor cinema in 2025, in a listed house
A modern mansion, Ayrshire
Lighting, distributed audio and control across a large family home
Racing simulator room
Motion simulator and display built into a dedicated games space
Ballochmyle Estate, Mauchline
An inherited Control4 system rescued and kept running
Coodham, Ayrshire
Smart technology fitted into a listed country house
Golf simulator, Troon
A simulator room built into a private house
Bars, restaurants, hotels and workplaces
Hospitality and commercial systems have to be heard and not seen, and survive a Saturday night. Zoned audio, video distribution, conferencing and secure guest Wi-Fi, designed with the interior architect and installed around the fit-out programme. Every link is tested and the results are handed over.
Hendrick’s Gin Palace, Girvan
Building-wide audio, 4K video and secure network for William Grant & Sons
Duck & Waffle, Edinburgh
Restaurant audio and video at the St James Quarter site
Ryanair Training Academy, Prestwick
Classroom AV and network for an engineering academy
Ayrshire Hospice capital build
AV throughout the new hospice, with Microtech Group
The Killie Community, Kilmarnock
Full AV installation in the charity’s new building
Studio King Street, Stirling
A podcast studio built into a commercial space
Design and consultancy
Some clients need the drawings, the specification and an honest opinion rather than an installation. We produce infrastructure designs, acoustic and sound-level surveys, and advice to architects and developers, and we say so when a scheme should not go ahead.
The Beresford, Glasgow
Technology design package for an Art Deco venue
Ludo Primal Wellness
Consultancy for a gym that works as hard as it looks
Events and community
Charity balls, movie nights in a castle, awards evenings and community buildings. The same engineering, on a tighter clock, often for nothing. It is how a family business stays part of the place it works in.
Ayrshire Hospice Ball, Seamill
Supporting the Hospice on its biggest night of the year
Dundonald Castle pop-up cinema
Our own pop-up cinema in one of Scotland’s most historic castles
Hansel Foundation Ball
Event sound, lighting and video for the annual charity ball
Sometimes the right answer is no
At the St Enoch Centre we ran acoustic and sound-level tests for Thai Express and advised them not to proceed. We lost the job and kept the client. If you want that kind of advice before anything is built, tell us about the building rather than the kit list: the programme, the drawings, and who else is on the team.