https://www.techcorp.com/blog.html Field notes from AV and VTC installs — integrator-side lessons from the job site. en-us https://www.techcorp.com/posts/patience.html https://www.techcorp.com/posts/patience.html Sun, 24 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Two installs — a dormakaba entrance control at a California airport and an Alvarado multi-lane in Colorado — same shape of problem: we showed up ready to work and the site wasn't ready for us. The real story isn't the install. It's the four days of standing around before the install became possible, and the part of the job nobody quotes for: waiting well. https://www.techcorp.com/posts/you-want-to-be-responsible.html https://www.techcorp.com/posts/you-want-to-be-responsible.html Mon, 18 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Four installs across as many years where the right answer was no — a CRT we shouldn't have lifted by hand, a hospital wall spec that ignored physics, a basement wall that moved when I touched it, and a brand-new bank office that wasn't a room yet. The thread running through all of them is the same question. https://www.techcorp.com/posts/you-touch-it-you-own-it.html https://www.techcorp.com/posts/you-touch-it-you-own-it.html Wed, 13 May 2026 08:00:00 -0700 A two-man CRT decommission in an Arizona NOC turned into a near-miss when a 16-foot length of black iron pipe came down through a ceiling like a broadsword. The rust on its threads told a longer story — about who owns the failures left behind by people long gone. https://www.techcorp.com/posts/the-lobby-display-that-shouldnt-have-taken-three-days.html https://www.techcorp.com/posts/the-lobby-display-that-shouldnt-have-taken-three-days.html Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:00:00 -0700 A commercial lobby install in Scottsdale that looked simple on paper — one 86" display, one media player, one wall mount. Here's what the drawings didn't show and how we got out clean.