LDM provide Audio Visual & Broadcast system design management services for projects large and small, local to international. We have a unique ability to get inside our clients’ organisational goals and objectives. That insight allows us to understand the business issues that  technology can help address, develop plans that respond to those drivers and design systems that support them.

It is crucial to clearly establish at the outset what the client's project-specific needs and aspirations are in order to agree a project brief that will provide a stable platform upon which to design. From our first meeting we work closely with our clients to understand their business objectives, their brand and the ethos and culture of their company. This process should be challenging & energetic, creative & collaborative, because it is the essential first step in the design process; where aims and objectives are shared, tested and challenged before being enshrined as the ‘project brief’. Experience is a valuable tool in informing and developing a brief and our depth of knowledge across a wide range of sectors and building styles enables us to advise our clients with confidence.

The briefing process assists our clients in defining what they want and helps them to optimise the effective use of their assets to meet their business objectives. A good brief will outline the clients’ requirements in technical, programme and budgetary terms. It is then possible to develop the brief and monitor the project progress against it, ensuring that delivery is a controlled and measured process, which is a positive experience for the client and end users. In partnership with our clients we develop the preferred concept into a feasibility design that can be costed, appraised and tested against the brief before being signed-off as the basis for full and intuitive design development of tender.

At the beginning of any project we collaborate with our clients to determine their requirements and a full appreciation of their company’s technology ethos. The brief is then established, developed and fully tested to ensure that it accurately reflects the clients’ aspirations. We analyse the constraints and opportunities of the brief in order to formulate a conceptual design response that can then be progressively developed as a fully designed solution.

We believe that one solution rarely fits all; therefore, our designs are not defined by a pre-determined product list. Rather, our approach embraces diversity and ensures that design solutions are environmentally responsive and appropriate to context, brief, corporate culture and also the end user. Four over-arching principles help us achieve our aim:

Skilled, experienced, professionals within our team have an in-depth understanding of the design process, offering an objective approach whilst working empathetically alongside architects, designers and clients alike. We are flexible, responding to the particular needs of each client or project we are involved with and our specific understanding of the challenges involved in the management of the design process can create measureable efficiencies.

Project management is far more than the application of a process. Of course the application of a process is essential, but done in a regimented manner it can be more of a hindrance than a help. Our skill is in knowing how to successfully mix leadership, process, administration and management in the correct proportions to match the requirements of each project. It comes down to the fact that we care and do what is needed to match or surpass the aspirations of our clients.