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I created two
websites in the past couple of weeks and am transitioning away from my old
hellarddesign.com site until I can revise it. One website, trueviewvideo.com highlights the video conferencing consulting/design side of what I do and bhellard.wix.com/hellarddesign
highlights the commercial real estate drafting service that I also do locally.
Now you may
wonder how those can be related, but it’s simple really. When working for the Telesuite
Corporation back in the early 2000’s, there was always what we would call “make
ready” work to be done to the site before installation of the large telepresence
systems. Therefore, someone would have to travel to the customer site and
measure all the room features to see what product could fit or what
architectural work needed done before an install. Sometimes that also involved product
modification as well, or a combination of changing the product and facility.
This is where I learned how critical it was to have accurate measurements of
the office space. The Telesuite product (now known in its current form as the
Polycom RPX) took up a huge footprint and most offices didn’t have conference
rooms large enough to accommodate them. In AutoCAD we were constantly flipping or
rotating the unit, moving walls and doors and either adjusting the ceiling or
the height of the unit to minimize the architectural build out and save time
and money in the process. If our measurements were off a couple of inches, it
could have led to installation delays, increased costs and “field engineering”,
so it was critical to get it right.
Since I’ve
done this work in a video conferencing capacity regularly, I thought I would
make it official, create a simple website and offer this measuring and drafting
service for real estate professionals in Cincinnati. That way, potential buyers
can review accurate floor plans and do some basic space planning before pulling
the trigger on an office building and real estate professionals can have
attractive looking presentation drawings as opposed to blurry photographs of
the exterior and a set of bullet points with facility highlights.
Thanks for reading,
Bryan