As a small business owner in San Francisco that specializes in remodeling the time for shrugging off the importance of green building is over.  My east coast roots and years spent building there had, in the past, left me with a bad taste in my mouth regarding the concept of so called green building and, to some extent, rightfully so. Read more

Plan!t Now Scholarship Interview

June 19, 2009

Whole Home Integration

June 18, 2009

An Interview with Noah Stokes of AVT

Mason Kirby: Thanks for joining me today. How did you get involved with AVT, and what’s the nature of AVT’s business?

Noah Stokes: Our business model includes doing all of the high and low voltage work on a project.  This starts with the design and includes the running of the wires, providing the equipment, the installation and all the way through to the programming and final instruction.  We have this approach for a couple reasons.  With the low voltage industry as a whole, everything has gotten so complicated and there are so many options out there that work great independently but, “don’t play well with others” to quote our Lead Programmer Joe Hutton that everyone has to be really careful with each piece they select.   Read more