Design-build audiovisual for Sunnyvale's tilt-up campuses, labs, offices, and civic rooms, fitting a modern spec into a 1980s building.
Sunnyvale has a very specific mismatch, and it sits inside almost every project here. The city's commercial fabric is the single-story concrete tilt-up, built by the thousands during the chip boom, low ceilings, slab walls, no plenum, power sized for a different era. The companies moving into those buildings now are anything but 1980s: cloud teams, hardware startups, lab operations, all carrying AV standards written for modern construction, glass conference fronts, ceiling microphones, cable pathways that assume space above the tile. Then the spec meets the slab. The ceiling is too low for the standard mount, there's nowhere to run the cable the drawing assumes, and the wall that was supposed to hold a video wall is structural concrete. That collision is the Sunnyvale project, nearly every time.
So we design for the building that exists, not the one the spec imagined. That means adapting the corporate standard honestly, same experience, same controls, same result, achieved through routing and mounting the tilt-up can actually support. We survey the real structure first, find the pathways a 1980s shell actually offers, and engineer around the slab instead of pretending it's drywall. Done right, the room meets the spec's intent so cleanly nobody asks how. The craft underneath is steady: drawings the contractor can build from, a rack we prove at our own bench, precise installation, tuning, training, and documentation that outlasts the tenancy, with support that mostly resolves from our desks. Since 2008.
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The valley shakes, and in a tilt-up the bracing story changes: heavy gear anchors into structural concrete, engineered to California seismic rules, never guessed.
Long dry summers run bright and warm, so outdoor displays get high-brightness panels, shade, and headroom against the heat.
Fire season pushes smoke and ash across the valley, so anything outdoors is sealed and filtered instead of inhaling the grit.
The wet season swings cool and damp, so outdoor enclosures get sealed against moisture and rated for the range.
What we do here
Four kinds of buyers drive our Sunnyvale work, and most of them just moved a modern company into a 1980s shell.
This is the defining Sunnyvale project: a modern company, often carrying a global AV spec, moving into a single-story tilt-up from the chip era. The spec assumes plenum and framed walls. The building offers slab, low ceilings, and pathways from another age. We close that gap by design rather than by change order, surveying the shell first, adapting the mounting and routing to what the concrete allows, and delivering the spec's intent, the same room experience, the same controls, without pretending the building is something it isn't. Where the standard's hardware genuinely can't work, we propose the equivalent that does and document why, so the corporate team stays in the loop instead of discovering a deviation later. The result reads like the standard. The engineering under it is pure Sunnyvale.
Sunnyvale still makes things, and its lab and R&D floors need AV that serves real work. Test benches and cleanroom-adjacent spaces want displays and audio that survive a working environment, training rooms have to bring new engineers up to speed with nobody standing at the front, and the all-hands space has to reach a floor that's half lab, half desks. Tilt-ups complicate all of it, since a slab ceiling limits where anything hangs and RF-heavy environments punish sloppy wireless planning. We route for the building, coordinate with lab operations so installs never disturb sensitive work, and keep the systems simple enough that a hardware team busy with its own product never has to think about ours. It's practical, unpretty engineering for people who respect exactly that.
Sunnyvale's dining runs from historic Murphy Avenue's compact blocks to the El Camino corridor and the downtown redevelopment, rooms that feed a tech workforce at lunch and a hometown crowd at night. Audio has to hold conversation through a rush and still carry on a busy evening, zoned so the bar stays off the dining tables. Murphy Avenue's older buildings bring their own quirks, small rooms, hard surfaces, so placement and tuning beat volume every time. Screens go where people actually look. Where a room hosts live entertainment, we build the connections and hand the show to the performers' crew, because we do not book talent, we do not mix live shows, and we do not do production camera work. The aim is a room that earns regulars, well beyond the lunch rush.
Sunnyvale's public side buys carefully: the city's rooms, the libraries, the community and senior centers, and the school and college spaces nearby. Public rooms live on one measure, whether the resident at the back follows the entire meeting, so microphone strategy and gain structure lead the design and the controls suit whoever chairs the session. Accessibility and assistive listening go in as standard, not as an afterthought, and bid and records requirements get met exactly as written. Rooms that stream get the outlet built in while your staff runs the feed. It's methodical work on public money, and it deserves the same precision as any campus across town, which is precisely how we treat it.
Now you adapt the standard honestly, which is most of what we do in Sunnyvale. A corporate spec written for modern construction assumes things a tilt-up simply doesn't have: plenum above the ceiling for cable, framed walls that accept any mount, height to spare for the standard bracket. Force that spec onto slab construction and the project bleeds change orders, or worse, somebody improvises mid-install and the corporate team finds a room that matches nothing. We do it differently. The survey comes first, so we know what the shell actually allows before anything is promised. Then we adapt the standard's intent, the same experience, the same controls, the same result your other offices get, through routing and mounting this building can genuinely support, and we document every adaptation so your global facilities team approves it rather than discovers it. Crunchy Tech has been doing this since 2008, and fitting a modern spec into a chip-era shell without drama is close to a Sunnyvale specialty.
Three things, and they compound. First, the ceiling: tilt-ups run low, often with structure directly above the tile instead of a plenum, so there's little or no space to run cable the way a modern spec assumes, and the standard ceiling-mount hardware may not even fit. Second, the walls: tilt-up panels are structural concrete, so hanging a display or a video wall means drilling slab with the right anchors, engineered for seismic load, not tapping into a stud. Third, the era: power and riser capacity were sized for 1980s office life, and a modern conference floor asks far more of both. None of this makes the buildings bad, they're honest, useful shells, and half of Silicon Valley grew up in them. It makes them buildings you design for deliberately. We survey the structure, plan pathways that exist rather than pathways we wish existed, and engineer the anchoring the concrete and the code require. The tilt-up rewards respect and punishes assumptions, and that's the whole trick.
Different desks, same state rules, which makes this easier than most multi-city footprints. Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Santa Clara, and Cupertino each run their own building department and inspections, so every location files fresh at its own counter, and each city has its own temperament about review. What carries across all of them is California itself: the seismic requirements and the Title 24 energy rules are identical citywide to citywide, so the engineering we do for one building translates directly to the next, even when the plan-check desk doesn't. We handle the per-city filings, the inspectors, and the honest scheduling when one office runs slower, and your team just gets a date. Meanwhile the rooms themselves behave identically at every site, one interface, one startup, so nobody relearns anything driving ten minutes up the expressway. A valley footprint should feel like one company, and that's how we build it.
Yes, and in Sunnyvale that's often the actual constraint, more than the building. A lab that's mid-test or a hardware team driving toward a ship date can't absorb dust, downtime, or a contractor wandering through sensitive space, so the install plan matters as much as the design. We coordinate with lab operations up front: which areas are off-limits and when, what needs protection from dust and static, which hours the noisy work can happen, and where staging can live without crowding the real work. Cable pulls and slab drilling get scheduled around test windows, and anything that risks disturbing sensitive equipment gets flagged and planned rather than discovered. The AV goes in clean, the lab never stops, and the product team barely notices we were there, which is exactly the review we want from an engineering client. Respecting the work around the install is part of the install.
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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