Houston keeps showing up on our project list, and not for the reason people expect. We are not a Houston company. We are an Orlando company that keeps getting called to Houston because the work there is interesting, and because the clients want a partner who treats AV as more than a rack of gear behind a wall.
Two projects define what that looks like right now: a 360 degree immersive LED room at Burns & McDonnell's headquarters, and a full audio, video, and control system upgrade underway at the Four Seasons Houston.
The Burns & McDonnell Immersive Room
We built a room where the walls disappear. Direct view LED wraps three walls and the ceiling, calibrated seam to seam so there is no visible break between panels. Step inside while content is running and you are not looking at a screen anymore, you are standing inside a pipeline network, or a job site, or a storm system moving across a prairie.
Burns & McDonnell is a global engineering and construction firm, and their work is genuinely hard to explain in a slide deck. Infrastructure at that scale does not fit on a monitor. So instead of another conference room presentation, we gave their team a space where clients can step inside the project itself, at scale, from every angle. It gets used for client walkthroughs, engineering review, recruiting, and internal events, all on the same hardware, just different content.
We wrote the full story of that build, including what it takes to keep 360 degrees of LED from ever showing a seam, in our case study on the immersive room.
Four Seasons Houston: A Resort-Wide Upgrade
The second Houston project is a different kind of scale problem. The Four Seasons Houston is bringing 42 Audio Visual in to redesign the audio, video, and control systems across the hotel's ballrooms, meeting spaces, and convention areas. This is not a single room. It is a resort-wide standard, built so that every event space, from a small breakout meeting to a full ballroom activation, runs on one unified control platform instead of a patchwork of legacy gear from a dozen different eras.
That means new projection and display systems in the meeting rooms, an upgraded amplifier and speaker architecture that actually gets replaced rather than patched, and a Q-SYS control backbone tying it all together so hotel staff can run any space from a single interface instead of learning a different remote for every room. Our team is heading to Houston in October to walk the property and finalize the install plan with the hotel's technology group.
"A resort only feels seamless to a guest when the AV behind it is actually unified. That's the whole point of this project."
Projects like this are why we like working in hospitality. A hotel's AV system is invisible when it works and painfully obvious when it does not. Guests do not notice good sound in a ballroom, they just notice that the event felt right. Getting there means designing for the staff who run the system every day just as much as for the guests who experience it once.
Why Houston, and Why Now
We are seeing more of this kind of work outside Florida: corporate campuses that want an immersive space instead of another conference room, and hospitality groups that want one AV partner across a whole property instead of a different vendor per system. Houston has both right now, and we are glad to be there for it.
If your team in Houston, or anywhere else, is looking at an immersive space, a resort-wide AV standard, or anything in between, reach out. We will tell you honestly what is realistic and what it takes to get there.
