/ Whitepapers · checklists · templates · packs
The library,
deepened over time.
Long-form documents, planning checklists and procurement packs the practice publishes for architects, consultants, facilities teams and clients who want depth past the website. Available on request — we respond within one working day.
/ A working library
Documents written for the desks they will sit on.
The pieces below were not written as marketing collateral. They began as internal references — the documents an engineer reaches for when an architect calls about NBC compliance, when a facilities lead is benchmarking a BMS, when an owner is reading a BOQ for the third time and trying to understand what was actually being quoted. We have polished and made them available because the same questions come from the outside as from within.
Every item is supplied on request rather than as an anonymous download — what you receive is the version we ourselves use this quarter, not a static PDF from a launch. Request any item by email with the title in the subject line, or send your project brief and we will pick the right ones for the stage you are at.
/ The working library · 6 documents
Whitepaper · 18 pages
Smart Home Architecture — Rako vs Fibaro vs KNX
Platform-selection logic for premium residential automation. When each platform is decisively right, when each is wrong, and the protocol-fit matrix that drives the recommendation.
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- Owners, architects and interior designers planning premium residential automation.
- Helps decide —
- Which automation platform fits the project — and when each is decisively wrong.
Technical guide · 22 pages
Acoustic Design for Premium Boardrooms & Auditoria
RT60 targets, STI compliance, absorber-layout principles, EASE modelling notes. With illustrative case studies from civic auditoria and corporate boardrooms.
- For —
- Architects, PMC teams and owners of boardrooms, auditoria and performance spaces.
- Helps decide —
- RT60 and STI targets, absorber strategy and where acoustic modelling is genuinely needed.
Reference guide · 32 pages
ELV Compliance Under NBC 2016 — A Practitioner's Reading
Mandatory life-safety and ELV systems by occupancy class and building height, with the relevant IS-code citations. The document we hand architects at the design-coordination stage.
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- Architects and consultants coordinating life-safety and ELV scope.
- Helps decide —
- Which life-safety and ELV systems are mandatory by occupancy class and building height.
Whitepaper · 14 pages
BMS Energy Benchmarking — Eastern India Commercial Tower Sample
Anonymised energy data across BMS-driven and unautomated commercial towers. Documented energy-saving ranges for HVAC optimisation, daylight harvesting, peak-shave and tariff arbitrage.
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- Facilities heads and owners benchmarking building-management performance.
- Helps decide —
- What a BMS retrofit can realistically change in a commercial tower's energy profile.
Operations guide · 12 pages
AMC Operational Discipline — Documentation, Response Targets and the Spares Pool
What a serious AMC programme actually contains. Quarterly check schedules, response-target structure, baseline-storage protocols, spares-pool sizing, and the documentation pack we hand to facilities teams.
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- Facilities teams and owners evaluating or running a maintenance programme.
- Helps decide —
- What a serious AMC programme actually contains and how to hold it accountable.
Procurement guide · 8 pages
International Procurement & Customs — A Practical Note
How we manage IEC-driven import procurement of premium fixtures for our Indian projects — documentation, customs liaison, last-mile freight, lead-time planning.
- For —
- Owners and procurement teams importing premium fixtures for Indian projects.
- Helps decide —
- How IEC-driven import procurement, customs liaison and lead-time planning are run.
/ Planning checklists · 11 documents
Coordination checklist
Architect ELV Coordination Checklist
The provisions an architect should freeze at design stage — conduit and containment routes, riser allocations, rack-room positions, ceiling-void clearances and the hand-off points between disciplines.
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- Architects coordinating ELV, fire, security and AV scope on new builds.
- Helps decide —
- Which containment, riser, power and clearance provisions to lock before the slab is cast.
Coordination checklist
Fire / ELV Coordination Checklist
Detection zoning, voice-evac coverage, hydrant and sprinkler interfaces, cause-and-effect matrix sign-off and the inspection milestones that keep a fire NOC on schedule.
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- Project teams sequencing fire-alarm, PA voice-evac, hydrant and ELV interfaces.
- Helps decide —
- The cause-and-effect interfaces and inspection milestones to schedule before handover.
Planning checklist
Building Technology Planning Checklist
A discipline-by-discipline walk through the building technology stack — fire, security, AV, networking, BMS, power continuity — with the design-stage questions each one must answer.
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- Owners and PMCs scoping the full technology stack of a new building.
- Helps decide —
- Which systems belong in the project and in what sequence they should be designed.
Planning checklist
Home Automation Planning Checklist
Room-by-room scoping prompts — lighting circuits, scene logic, blinds, climate, audio zones and the network backbone — written for the stage when the electrical drawings are still editable.
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- Homeowners and interior designers planning automation for a residence.
- Helps decide —
- Which rooms, circuits and scenes to bring into scope before wiring closes.
Planning checklist
Conference Room AV Planning Checklist
The room-by-room questions that decide a conference space — display size against viewing distance, microphone and speaker coverage, codec and platform fit, lighting and acoustic finishes.
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- IT and admin teams specifying boardrooms and meeting rooms.
- Helps decide —
- Display sizing, microphone coverage, codec choice and cabling provisions per room type.
Planning checklist
BMS Readiness Checklist
Plant inventory, points-list discipline, protocol audit (BACnet / Modbus), panel readiness and the operational questions that decide whether a BMS will actually be used after handover.
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- Facilities heads and MEP consultants assessing a building for BMS scope.
- Helps decide —
- Whether the plant, points and protocols are ready for supervisory control.
Sector checklist
Hotel Technology Planning Checklist
Guest-room technology, hotel TVs and casting, Wi-Fi and PMS integration, CCTV and access control, PA and background music, signage — sequenced by property archetype.
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- Hotel owners, operators and project teams planning a property's technology stack.
- Helps decide —
- Which guest-facing and back-of-house systems each property tier genuinely needs.
Sector checklist
School / Smart Classroom Technology Checklist
Panel sizing against room depth, classroom acoustics, network and power provisioning per room, digital-library and PA integration, and a phased rollout plan that survives the academic calendar.
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- School managements and administrators planning interactive classrooms.
- Helps decide —
- Interactive panel sizing, classroom networking and the rollout sequence across blocks.
Sector checklist
Healthcare ELV Planning Checklist
Fire detection and voice evacuation for clinical occupancies, CCTV and access zoning, structured cabling for clinical networks, PA and the coordination points with medical-gas and BMS scope.
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- Hospital project teams and consultants planning ELV scope for clinical buildings.
- Helps decide —
- Which ELV systems clinical areas need and the standards each must meet.
Planning reference
CCTV Storage & Bandwidth Ready Reckoner
Resolution, frame-rate, codec and retention worked through to storage and bandwidth figures — the printed companion to the interactive storage calculator, for site meetings without a laptop.
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- Security teams and IT heads sizing surveillance recording and networks.
- Helps decide —
- Retention-driven storage sizing and the network headroom a camera plan needs.
Planning sheet
UPS / BESS Load Planning Sheet
A load-schedule template that separates life-safety, IT-critical, comfort and deferrable loads, with runtime classes and the questions that decide between online UPS and BESS-based systems.
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- Electrical consultants and facilities teams sizing power continuity.
- Helps decide —
- Which loads belong on UPS or BESS backup and the runtime each class needs.
/ Brief templates & blueprints · 3 documents
Brief template
Smart Home Brief Template
A fill-in brief that captures the residence the way an automation engineer needs to read it — rooms, daily routines, lighting moods, AV expectations, network reality and future-proofing intent.
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- Homeowners and designers preparing a written automation brief.
- Helps decide —
- How to describe rooms, routines and priorities so the first proposal is the right one.
Brief template
Auditorium AV Brief Template
Seat count, programme types, acoustic intent, PA and line-array expectations, projection or LED choice, stage lighting and control — structured so the brief survives procurement intact.
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- Institutions, government departments and PMCs briefing an auditorium project.
- Helps decide —
- The acoustic, AV, lighting and control intent a tender or design brief must pin down.
Sector blueprint
Hospitality Technology Stack Blueprint
The reference architecture we use for hospitality work — guest room, public area, back-of-house and infrastructure layers, with the integration points between PMS, networking, AV, CCTV and fire.
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- Hotel owners and operators planning or refreshing a property's full stack.
- Helps decide —
- How the guest-facing and back-of-house layers fit together across a property.
/ Procurement, handover & AMC · 6 documents
Company profile
TechnoGuru Company Profile 2026
The current company profile — disciplines, statutory registrations, certifications, selected reference projects and the engagement process — in a single document suitable for vendor files.
- For —
- Procurement teams, consultants and institutions evaluating TechnoGuru.
- Helps decide —
- Whether the practice's disciplines, registrations and references fit your project.
Procurement pack
Procurement / Vendor Onboarding Pack
GST, PAN, IEC, MSME / Udyam and bank details in the format vendor-registration portals ask for, plus the statutory document copies a procurement file typically requires.
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- Purchase and accounts teams onboarding TechnoGuru as a vendor.
- Helps decide —
- Everything an empanelment or vendor-registration file needs in one request.
Procurement reference
System Integration Procurement FAQ
The questions we believe every SI tender should ask — scope boundaries, commissioning deliverables, documentation standards, training, spares and AMC terms — with why each one matters.
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- Procurement officers comparing system-integration bids.
- Helps decide —
- The technical questions that separate comparable bids from incomparable ones.
Scope template
AMC Scope Template
A scope-of-work skeleton for ELV / AV / automation AMC — system inventory, visit cadence, response-target structure, escalation chain, documentation deliverables and renewal checkpoints.
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- Facilities teams drafting or renewing a maintenance contract.
- Helps decide —
- What a complete AMC scope covers — visits, response targets, documentation, spares.
Operations checklist
Preventive AMC Checklist
System-by-system preventive routines — fire alarm and PA test points, CCTV and recording health, network and UPS checks, automation scene verification — with the records each visit should leave behind.
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- Facilities engineers running scheduled maintenance on integrated systems.
- Helps decide —
- What a preventive visit must actually inspect, test and record per system.
Handover checklist
Project Handover Documentation Checklist
As-built drawings, configuration baselines and offline archives, test records, credential handover, warranty registers and training sign-off — the checklist that decides whether a handover is real.
- For —
- Owners, PMCs and facilities teams receiving an integrated-systems project.
- Helps decide —
- Which documents, baselines and credentials a complete handover must include.
/ Looking for something specific?
We commission resources on request.
For sector-specific or project-specific reference material — sample documentation packs, indicative commissioning reports, calibration test plans, AMC scope templates — write to us with your brief. We supply documentation, redacted as necessary, that helps you make a well-informed engagement. You can also start from the brief wizard or the planning tools.