Audiovisual consulting and design-build for Fort Worth boardrooms, offices, hotels, restaurants, and retail. We engineer the system, specify it, install it, and support it, working with your architect and general contractor under Fort Worth's own approval process.
The audiovisual scope on a Fort Worth project usually lands with whoever is holding the pen when the question comes up. Often that is an architect placing displays on an elevation with no idea where the speakers have to go, or an IT manager picking the system that will generate the fewest support tickets. The people who have to live in the room get asked after the ceiling is closed and the conduit is run. By then the fix is a change order at construction rates.
That is the gap an AV consultant is supposed to close. We come on as the technology partner, work out what each space has to do, design the system around it, and hand the architect and general contractor requirements they can bid and build from. Then we install, commission, train, and support what we designed, so one company is on the hook for the room. We have done it that way since 2008, and in Fort Worth we work under Fort Worth's jurisdiction and with Fort Worth trades rather than treating the city as an extension of Dallas.
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Every system is designed, installed, and supported by our own team in Fort Worth — never subcontracted.
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From Sundance Square boardrooms to Stockyards hospitality and the Alliance corridor, we consult on audiovisual design for Fort Worth offices, hotels, restaurants, and retail, and we plan every install around local approvals and local trades.
North Texas storm season is hard on exterior equipment, so outdoor displays, speakers, and enclosures get selected for impact and water exposure rather than for price.
Weeks of extreme heat and direct sun cook anything outdoors, so patio and exterior gear gets specified with shade, ventilation, and thermal headroom accounted for.
The region takes real freeze and ice events, so outdoor systems are designed to stay in place through the cold rather than being pulled inside each winter.
Downtown and Stockyards structures can carry historic review requirements, so mounting, penetrations, and concealment get resolved in design and the path gets confirmed per site.
How we work
Your technology partner belongs in the room while the architect is still drawing. Once the building is going up, the window that mattered has already closed.
Nobody wants to spend on AV a year before opening, and nobody has to. What a project that far out needs is its technology requirements written into the architectural plan, because the permit set and the GC bid both depend on them. Leave them out and the general contractor guesses at conduit, pathways, and structure, and every one of those guesses gets corrected later at construction pricing. So the trigger is the architect's first floor plan. We model what each space has to accomplish, then send requirements back so the plan set is complete and the bids are comparable. Projects that engage us at that stage run roughly 95% fewer change orders than the ones that call after framing.
Treating Fort Worth as a Dallas suburb is how schedules slip. Approvals here run through Fort Worth, the trades are local, and downtown and Stockyards buildings can carry historic review requirements that shape what is allowed to be mounted or made visible, so we design to those conditions and confirm the path per site rather than assuming it. What the general contractor needs from us does not change: conduit sizing, pathway plans for open ceilings, blocking and backing behind every display, power for the rack, and cooling for the AV room. Getting that package over early is the highest-leverage move on the job. On schedule, engineering and design take two to three weeks after contract, equipment runs thirty to forty-five days, and new construction is nine to twelve months from groundbreak to opening.
What we consult on
Fort Worth consulting work concentrates in four kinds of space. Each one asks a different design question, and in every case the equipment list is the last thing decided.
Fort Worth's aerospace and defense employers run meetings where the room has to be dependable and discreet, and where an internal IT and security group already has rules about what can touch the network. So we design with them rather than around them, and the system gets documented so their team can maintain and audit it. The rest is the discipline every boardroom needs and rarely gets: a room designed from its dimensions and acoustics instead of from a manufacturer's room-size chart, because a system built for five people fails a table of twenty. That sets microphone and camera coverage, display size for the furthest seat, and a control layer that behaves the same in every room. Training and briefing spaces get treated separately, since presenting to a large group is not a scaled-up huddle room.
A hotel is several venues sharing an address, and the common error is buying one system for all of them. The lobby needs sound that sets a tone without competing with the front desk, the restaurant and bar each need their own zone, and event space carries the revenue risk because a group that cannot present cleanly will not rebook. Downtown and Stockyards properties add a constraint on top, since in historic buildings the requirement is often that nothing is visible, so speakers and screens get concealed into the architecture and coverage is solved through placement. So the design goes zone by zone, with distributed audio under local control, displays specified for the light they sit in, and meeting rooms that support whichever platform a guest walks in with.
Two complaints give away a room whose audio was never engineered: guests cannot talk, or the operator cannot hear the program they chose. Both come from speakers placed with no attention to direction, height, and a room full of brick, concrete, and glass. So audio gets zoned, and the dining room, the bar, and the patio each get tuned to the concept instead of sharing one level. Displays sit off the primary sightlines so a screen reads as content rather than clutter, and control stays simple enough for a manager to change during service. Patios in North Texas mean weather-rated hardware on a dedicated zone, specified for summer heat, hail, and the occasional hard freeze.
Big public spaces fail differently from a dining room. The room is large, the crowd is loud, and a message still has to be understood at the back of it. So distributed audio is designed for intelligibility zone by zone rather than for output, and paging and public address get specified so an announcement is followed instead of merely audible. When the acoustics work against us we study the layout before picking a speaker, because the space decides the type and the placement. In galleries and design-led retail the brief is usually that the sound is present and the hardware is invisible, so equipment gets concealed and coverage comes from geometry rather than from adding boxes.
Plain answers
Two things separate a useful consulting engagement from a document nobody can build from. Here is what we deliver and why we stay on the project after the drawings are done.
Plenty of consulting engagements end with a report, which is not something a trade can build from. Ours ends with drawings and schedules: system elevations and equipment locations, signal flow and single-line drawings, an equipment schedule, conduit and pathway requirements for the GC, power and cooling requirements for the rack and the AV room, mounting and structural backing details, and network requirements. When a call is hard to picture on paper, we show the space visually before an order goes out, which keeps a redesign from landing mid-construction. The architect folds the package into the plan documents, the GC bids against it, and on ground-up work our drawings ride along in the permitting set.
The usual consulting arrangement ends at the specification, and the person who wrote it is nowhere near the building on opening night. That is a bad structure, and it gets worse when the underlying bid-spec came from someone working outside their expertise, which happens more often than the industry admits. We carry the whole thing: design, specification, procurement, rack fabrication in our own shop, installation, commissioning, training, documentation, and support afterward. One company, one point of accountability. Since the company spent its early years after 2008 supporting AV before it built it, our designs get made serviceable on purpose, labeled and documented so a technician can open the rack in three years and follow it. Where a scope is genuinely settled, we will price it as a fixed bid.
Fort Worth is its own market and we run it that way. Approvals go through Fort Worth rather than Dallas, the trades and subcontractors are local, and the building stock downtown and in the Stockyards is nothing like a new suburban shell, so a project here needs a design and a schedule built around local conditions. That means we confirm the approval path for the specific site, coordinate with the general contractor and trades who are actually on the job, and account for historic review where the building falls under it. It also means someone from our team gets to the site rather than working off photographs. The engineering standard is the same one we apply everywhere: technology requirements into the architectural plan early, drawings your GC can bid, and a system we install and support ourselves.
Both, and the accountability is the whole argument. A design-only consultant delivers a specification, collects the fee, and has no stake in whether the room performs the day you open it, which is how owners end up refereeing between a designer and an installer. We handle design, specification, procurement, rack fabrication in our shop, installation, commissioning, training, documentation, and support afterward. One company, one point of accountability. We will work design-only if that is what you need, and we will be direct about the risk of handing our drawings to the lowest bidder. We will also review a spec or a proposal you already have and tell you honestly where the gaps are.
More than owners expect, but it has to be designed rather than improvised. Historic buildings in these districts carry review requirements that shape what is allowed to be visible, mounted, or penetrated, so we settle those questions in design and confirm the path with the jurisdiction for that specific address. Practically, the constraint usually means the hardware cannot show, so speakers and displays get concealed into the architecture, mounting and structural backing details get drawn so nothing gets hung off something that cannot carry it, and coverage gets solved through placement rather than through more equipment. We do not interpret code or review requirements for you. We design the system to meet what the project is held to and keep the documentation clean so review does not become the reason you open late.
Yes, and the right sequence is to get your IT and security people into the design conversation early rather than presenting them a finished specification. Where an internal team owns the network and the security posture, we design with them, meet the requirements they set for what connects and how, and hand over documentation their staff can maintain and audit later. On the room itself, we design from the space rather than a product chart: dimensions, acoustics, who speaks, who listens, and which platforms your people and your visitors actually use. That sets microphone and camera coverage, display sizing for the furthest seat, and a control layer that behaves identically room to room so nobody needs a walkthrough to start a meeting. Briefing and training rooms get designed as their own problem, because a large presenting room is not a bigger huddle room.
Client successes drive Crunchy Tech to become better. Below is how our customers feel about us.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
Just do it. Spend the money. It’s well worth it. It’s not worth your time, hassle, energy, and stress of trying to make it look right and do it right when there’s somebody who has been doing it for years and has perfected the craft.
You're a great partner with Florida Hospital and this project will make a difference in Children's Health.
Working with Crunchy Tech was a fantastic experience from start to finish. They handled the sale and installation of all our sound and TV equipment at The County Bar in Aviston, IL, and absolutely nailed it. We were on a very tight deadline, and they not only met it—they delivered top-notch quality and service the entire way. Highly professional, responsive, and easy to work with. We couldn't be happier with the results.
Crunchy's AV Services are outstanding. Staff members are experts, who really extend themselves to find the right technology for helping us reach our marketing goals in creative ways. The best thing about working with Crunchy is collaborating with the staff – they are patient, responsive, knowledgeable, and available.
Crunchy has been great to work with. They communicate well and deliver as promised.
The work Crunchy has been doing is a game changer for this industry.
Being able to reuse the existing structure created a much lower cost for the client and they were ecstatic.
Crunchy has done an amazing job on our A/V install. The sound is perfectly balanced throughout our many zones and the entire system is super simple to use.
We don’t sell you what we have. We design what you need. That line is the operating principle I’ve built Crunchy Tech around for the last 20 years. And it’s the single sentence that separates us - and the small handful of firms like us - from the other 97% of the commercial AV industry.
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Read article arrow_forwardSend over the basics: the address, the phase the project is in, who your architect and general contractor are, and what is already locked. If the drawings are still open we will work from them and return requirements for the plan set. If construction has begun we will get to the site, confirm what the building and the city allow, and come back with one engineered consulting scope rather than an equipment list.
