How the band is built
A tower, a hotel or an office is priced from the drawings, never from a form, so the builder gives you a band per unit and the order of magnitude across the building rather than pretending to a total. The per-unit figures come from what we already publish: lighting control at our per-zone range of AED 2,550 to 5,100, scaled to the zones a standard apartment, key or office floor actually carries; a KNX backbone per villa from AED 153,000 on an estate; and the network, access, CCTV and audio-visual lines taken from the same whole-villa system split our residential cost guide uses.
Building-level items do not get a number here on purpose. BMS integration depends on the plant, the metering and the building's own systems; a maintenance contract is priced from the asset list after a survey. Both are listed so the specification pack covers them.
Why per unit, not a total
Developers and consultants budget by apartment, key or floor because that is how the cost is compared against the sale price or the rent. The band per unit multiplied across the scale band you chose gives the order of magnitude a board can react to; the specification pack, with layouts, single-line schematics and standardised unit packages, turns it into a figure your consultant can tender. Volume pricing is set there, not here.
What we deliver at each stage
At concept, specification consultancy is at no cost, and the earlier we are involved the cheaper the risers, containment and rack rooms are to get right. At design development we produce AutoCAD layouts, schematics and the specification pack. At tender we price against the drawings. An existing building is surveyed first: what is installed, what still works, what the risers can carry. An installed system that needs looking after is priced from its asset list under a maintenance contract covering Lutron, KNX, Crestron and Control4.
What we need from you to start
The architectural drawings or the unit mix, whichever exists; the stage the project is at; the systems the specification must cover; and the name of the consultant or contractor we will be coordinating with. A tender pack, if there is one, saves a round. From that we return the specification pack, the standardised unit packages and the budget, written so a board can approve it and a consultant can tender it. Everything you enter here travels with the request, so the first conversation starts from the building, not from a blank page.