About Us

Luxury homes were just starting to be built in Kamala and Surin, and we were asked by developers to offer audio-visual systems and trouble-shoot electrical issues. We were also asked to assist with systems installed by Bangkok and overseas companies, as Phuket didn’t have any specialists. We quickly expanded to automation systems, and whole-house solutions

Large villas have a lot of lights, both internally and externally. Controlling, more importantly dimming them to create moods and scenes became the norm for these huge houses. Integrated with AV and Home Aautomation, our “Smart Home” offered owners and guests the ability to activate All Off, Welcome Home, and Party Mode at the touch of a button.

Over the course of 2005, AVC raised funds and built nearly 200 houses for 500 people (many of them families) that had been left homeless. AVC secured land, designed buildings, and sourced local contractors to house everyone quicker than most other projects even began. Wally spent most of his time running AVC, while Robin was on site daily coordinating the works in Kamala, Surin and Bang Tao. For these efforts, AVC was awarded by HRH Princes Soamsawali for outstanding contributions to the people of Thailand.

Following the Tsunami, Phuket projects slowed down, while Samui became very busy with development. Starting with villas where the project teams had already been working in Phuket, we opened a small office and had immediate work. There were several beachfront villas being constructed all needing our lighting, AV and Home Automation services. Over the course of several years we initially installed AV systems, then onto full smart-home systems, and finally onto engineering MEP systems and lighting design for Nikki Beach.

Prior to 2008, all of our drawings needed to be sent to an engineer (typically in Bangkok) to incorporate into their drawings for construction. This caused administration issues as well as a higher cost to the client, so we began to offer the full “electrical” scope of design work. At the same time, we realized that many luxury villas were using the lighting layouts supplied by the engineer as opposed to a coordinated design, resulting in under-lit buildings and major retrofit work towards the end of construction. We expanded our team with qualified engineers, an in-house lighting designer, and a specialist lighting consultant in Hong Kong to create unique designs for each project.

Having secured a small piece of land, we purpose-built our new office in under one year of construction. The layout includes a generous reception and meeting/showroom space, a comfortable working environment for design and engineering, a workshop and repair area for our growing team of technicians, and a large secure store room.

We quickly learned that customers and project teams wanted the full package of services and not only electrical engineering. We expanded our design team with plumbing and mechanical (HVAC) engineers, with an emphasis on working together to fully plan the technical systems of each unique project. We also trained our staff to engineer to International Standards, to offer customers the same high specifications they were used to in other parts of the world.

Engineering full developments not only gave us the opportunity to offer our full scope of services to more projects, but also gave developers an advantage of dealing with a local company (as opposed to Bangkok), better on-site presence, and increased coordination that is cost effective and time saving. Projects benefit from our future-use planning that allows them to keep up with technology without having to dig up roads and gardens.

Our expansion into Bangkok started with existing customers building a second home/penthouse. Each project that we’ve worked on has been truly unique, specialized, and very high-end.

Partnering with a long established company in both Thailand and Malaysia with a proven track record of durable long-lasting systems, and utilizing our in-house engineers and specialist technicians, we offer a variety of solar-powered solutions. Solar systems have the ability to greatly offset your monthly electric bill, as well as offering backup power during Phuket’s common brown and black-outs.