Services
Phase One - Discovery, Design, and Pre-Construction Services
Understanding Your Needs: We start by truly understanding your lifestyle, preferences, and technology aspirations through in-depth discovery meetings.
Unbiased Advice: Receive unbiased recommendations on the latest home technologies. Our advice is driven by your needs, not product sales.
Realistic Budgeting: Our proprietary budget calculator provides instant price transparency, ensuring clear expectations from the start.
Comprehensive Planning: We review all design documents, assist with lighting, and design your lighting control system, ensuring seamless integration.
Best Contractor Selection: We create a detailed bid package and provide a normalized analysis of proposals, helping you choose the right partners.
Benefit: Avoid costly mistakes and delays by planning thoroughly upfront. Our early involvement saves you time and money.
Phase Two - Engineering, Specification, and Documentation Services
Detailed Engineering Drawings: Spexi creates a full set of engineering drawings detailing device locations, equipment room layouts, power requirements, and wiring.
Comprehensive Equipment Specification Package: We assemble detailed specification documents for all recommended products and components.
Proactive Document Maintenance: Spexi tracks all changes impacting technology systems and updates all associated engineering and specification documentation accordingly, ensuring all team members have access to the latest information.
Creation of Specialty Documentation: Spexi provides detailed drawings and specifications for items requiring specific installation details, such as TV mounting, shading pockets, and specialized lighting.
Phase Three - Construction Administration
Client Advocacy During Construction: Spexi acts as the client's representative, ensuring their best interests are always at the forefront by reviewing contractor designs, recommendations, and suggestions.
Proactive Project Management and Communication: Spexi attends relevant construction meetings, updates documentation, and oversees communication of technology-related decisions to all involved parties, ensuring everyone is working from the same information.
Interaction with Contractors and Design Professionals: Spexi serves as a point of contact and translator between the client and the construction team, facilitating clear communication and resolving any questions or issues that may arise.
Thorough Expense Review: Spexi reviews and approves all subcontractor invoicing and change orders to ensure adherence to contracts, budgets, and industry standards, safeguarding the client against unnecessary costs.
Evaluation of Work Performed: Spexi periodically reviews the work performed by contractors to ensure it aligns with the agreed-upon scope and industry standards.
Final Walkthrough and Punch List Management: Spexi performs an on-site inspection upon completion and prior to the client walkthrough, reviews system programming, and creates/maintains an installation punch list to ensure all systems are working correctly and meet the client's needs. They also attend the post-installation walkthrough with the client and contractor to address any remaining issues.
