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The Tax Integration

Five Systems, Five Separate Decisions

Week before final walkthrough. The Frame TV isn’t flat on the wall because there is an outlet in the way. Each vendor did exactly what they were hired to do. None of them talked to each other first.

This is the cost nobody priced into the proposal. It shows up during commissioning instead: motorized shades that have to use a battery because there’s no pre-wire. A lighting keypad relocated at the last minute because the AV rack landed on the same wall. A TV that’s way too high because it wasn’t considered in the fireplace design. None of it is expensive on its own. All of it adds up on a schedule with no room left to absorb it.

Raise this at schematic design, not at trim-out: how are lighting, shading, security, AV, and networking meant to work together- and with who is answering that before any one of them gets specified? Put the answer in writing before the first system gets bid.

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