I’ll Have What She’s Having: AV and Building Management May Finally Click
(Published by rAVe on February 25, 2025)
If you’ve ever seen “When Harry Met Sally,” you know it’s a great example of a relationship that didn’t work the first time. Or the second. Or even the third. But eventually, after years of near misses, misunderstandings and stubborn resistance, Harry and Sally found themselves perfectly matched.
That’s an apt analogy for what’s happening in the AV and collaboration space and its long-overdue dance with building management systems (BMS).
A Longtime Love-Hate Relationship
For years, building management and AV lived in separate worlds, despite being two crucial components of modern workplaces. Building systems controlled lighting, HVAC and security. AV teams handled room booking, occupancy data, and conferencing technology. These two disciplines never spoke the same language — often quite literally in large-scale construction projects where AV integrators always seemed to be an afterthought in the timeline. (Really, can you even name a large building project where the AV integrator was given all the time it clearly stated it needed to do a good job? I can’t.)
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