Technology Strategy Without the Vendor Agenda

Consolidated Voltage works exclusively on the owner's side to make decisions clearer.

Owner's Representative

Represents building owners and developers through design, bid, and construction — not the installer's interests.

Vendor-Neutral Design

Specifications built on system fit and lifecycle cost, independent of any single manufacturer or integrator relationship.

Deliberately Independent

Operated separately from any installation firm to avoid conflicts between design authorship and bid specification.

Wilson Adams

Wilson Adams, CTS | Principal

What I've seen from the inside:

I've taken over a lot of projects from other integrators and sales engineers, and the pattern is almost always the same. It's rarely the product that failed. 

Someone sold more equipment than the job needed and less labor than it required, because the easy margin lives in the hardware. 

The design, programming, and commissioning that actually make a system work got squeezed.

There's a bigger version of the same problem. Most building technology is designed for the day the developer hands over the keys. 

Nine times out of ten, the plan is the cheapest thing that could be turned over, not what will serve the people who occupy that building for the next twenty years.

My Story

I tend to work with 6 kinds of people. 

The owner or operator of a hotel, apartment community, or condominium. 

Residents and guests touch your technology every day, but developers hand over whatever was cheapest, and the documentation leaves with the last integrator.

I help you plan, bid, and fix those systems so they hold up for the next twenty years.
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HOSPITALITY & MULTIFAMILY

The IT lead who just got handed AV or security. 

Most days you can figure it out. But on the tenth day it's a power problem, a fire alarm tie-in, a door that won't latch, a blown speaker, or a cable run nobody documented, and there's no one to call.

I'm the one to call.
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WORKPLACE TECHNOLOGY

The facilities or construction manager stuck in the middle. 

The office team asked for one thing, the CFO wants to know why it costs that much, and you need to know you aren't getting taken.

I translate in both directions and make sure the number is fair.
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WORKPLACE TECHNOLOGY

The owner or developer putting up a building.

You've got an architect, a GC, and a lender, and nobody on the team is watching the technology until it's too late to change it.

I make sure low-voltage systems are designed in from the start instead of retrofitted after the walls are up.
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REAL ESTATE & DEVELOPMENT

The buyer, lender, or board who needs to know what they're inheriting. 

The building looks fine on the tour. But behind the walls are cameras nobody can log into, an access system that's out of support, and a network that was never documented.

I tell you what's there, what it's worth, and what it will cost to keep running.

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DUE DILIGENCE & CAPITAL PLANNING

The integrator who's in over their head, or who would rather install than design. 

Sometimes a project outgrows the team that sold it. Sometimes you just want a clean design to build from. And sometimes the problem isn't the job, it's the systems you run the business on.

Either way, I can step in.

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INTEGRATOR SUPPORT & SOFTWARE

From strategy to closeout.

Technology planning shouldn't begin with a product list. It should begin with understanding what the project needs.

Consolidated Voltage can engage at any point in the project lifecycle—or provide continuity from pre-design through closeout.

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