AV SITE SURVEY

Q: How much does an AV site survey cost?

Nothing. Strive AV's site surveys are free and come before any quote, because a fixed price cannot be given for a room nobody has seen.

Q: How long does an AV site survey take?

1 to 2 hours per site for most offices. Larger estates with many rooms, lecture theatres or venues take longer.

A free survey of every room before we quote, recorded on site in the SiteSurvey app and turned into a written report and a fixed price.

QUICK REFERENCE

Strive AV carries out a free site survey before quoting any AV installation. An engineer spends 1 to 2 hours per site measuring rooms and recording ceilings, power, data, containment, acoustics and existing equipment, room by room, in the SiteSurvey app. The output is a written report with photographs and a marked-up floor plan, and a fixed-price proposal built from it.

AT A GLANCE

Cost: Free, before any quote
Time on site: 1 to 2 hours per site
What you receive: Written report, photographs and a fixed price
Recorded in: SiteSurvey app, room by room

A quote from a floor plan is a guess

A drawing does not show the duct running where the cable route needs to be, the fire barrier above the ceiling or the glazing that washes out the display at 3pm. Those are the things that change the price after the order is placed.

So we visit first. A survey takes 1 to 2 hours per site, costs nothing, and comes before any figure is quoted. It is the first deliverable of our consultation and design service, and it is the reason the price we quote is the price you pay.

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Strive AV engineers working on a boardroom AV installation planned from a site survey

What an AV site survey records

Six things are checked in every room. Each one answers a question the design depends on.

Room dimensions and sightlines

Length, width, ceiling height, seating positions and viewing distances, so the display size and camera position are worked out from the room and not from a brochure.

Ceiling and what is above it

Ceiling type, void depth, fire barriers, ductwork and beams. A tile is lifted and the void is photographed, because that is where cable routes are won or lost.

Power, data and containment

Socket and floor box positions, network points, switch capacity, existing containment and the route from the rack to every device.

Acoustics and light

Hard surfaces, glazing, background noise and how much daylight falls on the display wall, which decide the microphones, speakers and screen brightness.

Existing equipment

Make, model and condition of anything being kept, moved or removed, so it is priced into the scope and not discovered on installation day.

Other trades and access

What the M&E, ceiling and IT teams need to provide, plus delivery routes, working hours and permit requirements for the building.

The software we use on site

Strive AV surveys are captured in SiteSurvey, a site survey app for phones and tablets. Every project is broken into its rooms, laid out on the floor plan, and each photo, measurement and form answer is saved inside the room it was taken in. Nobody sorts through a camera roll afterwards working out which ceiling void belongs to which boardroom.

It replaces the clipboard, the unlabelled photos and the evening spent typing notes into a report. That matters to you for three reasons.

•Nothing is missed. Each room type has its own survey form, so the engineer cannot leave a boardroom without the ceiling void photo or the network point count. The room layout comes from floor plan based surveys, so every space on the drawing is accounted for.

•You see what we saw. The report carries the photographs with the findings they support. On larger sites the engineer can record a Walk Cam video inspection, talking through each room while filming it.

•The survey follows the job. The designer, the project manager and the installers all work from the same record, so what was found on the survey is what gets built.

HOW A SURVEY RUNS

Set up before we travel

The project, its rooms and the floor plan are loaded into the app first, with the survey form each room type needs. The engineer arrives knowing what to capture in every space.

Capture room by room

Photos, measurements, form answers and voice notes are recorded inside the room they belong to. It works offline, so basements, risers and plant rooms with no signal are covered.

Report and fixed price

The captured record becomes the written survey report: photographs, the marked-up floor plan and a list of what other trades need to provide. The fixed-price quote is built from it.

The same record through installation

The survey is not filed and forgotten. Installers open the same rooms on site, then log serial numbers, test results and sign-off against them at commissioning.

What you receive

A written survey report and a fixed-price proposal built from it. If a room cannot deliver what the brief asks for, the report says so before any money is spent.

• Photographs of every room and ceiling void
• A marked-up floor plan with device positions
• Power, data and containment requirements
• What other trades need to provide, and when
• Existing equipment to keep, move or remove
• A fixed price for the whole scope

From there, a named project manager carries the survey through AV project management and installation.

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AV Site Survey FAQs

Q.How much does an AV site survey cost?

Nothing. Strive AV's site surveys are free and come before any quote, because a fixed price cannot be given for a room nobody has seen.

Q.How long does an AV site survey take?

1 to 2 hours per site for most offices. Larger estates with many rooms, lecture theatres or venues take longer.

Q.What does an AV site survey check?

Room dimensions and sightlines, ceiling type and void, power and data points, containment and cable routes, acoustics, daylight, existing equipment and what other trades need to provide. Everything is photographed and recorded against the room it belongs to.

Q.What software does Strive AV use for site surveys?

The SiteSurvey app. Each project is split into its rooms on the floor plan, and photos, measurements and form answers are saved inside the room they were taken in. It works offline, and the captured record becomes the survey report.

Q.Do I need to do anything before the survey?

Send floor plans if you have them, tell us how each room will be used and how many people it seats, and arrange access to the rooms, the comms room and above the ceiling. Having someone from IT available for 15 minutes helps with network questions.

Q.What do I get after the survey?

A written survey report with photographs, a marked-up floor plan and the requirements for other trades, followed by a fixed-price proposal for the whole scope.