Technology either serves the architecture or it argues with it, and the difference is decided early, on paper. Regent5 works with Northern California architects as a technology design and low-voltage engineering partner: contributing to the plan set, coordinating with interior designers and other consultants, protecting design intent through construction, and treating visible hardware as an architectural decision first. C10 electrical and C7 low-voltage licensed, CSLB 1033103.
Keypads and switches live on finished walls and get touched every day, which makes them the place where technology either honors the architecture or quietly undermines it. We design wall hardware the way you design everything else: consolidated so a bank of switches becomes one engraved keypad, specified across Lutron's Alisse, Palladiom, and seeTouch lines in metal and finish options that belong to your palette, and placed on the drawings, at heights and locations you approve, not wherever the installer found a stud. Every keypad line and finish is on display at our San Carlos showroom, so selections happen with the hardware in hand, the way material selections should.
Lighting changes everything about how a space feels, and we treat it as part of the design rather than a trade that happens to the design. We engineer Lutron HomeWorks QSX lighting control around your lighting designer's intent, place Ketra full spectrum fixtures where color rendering matters, in galleries, kitchens, and rooms with significant art, and detail Lutron Palladiom and Sivoia shading into window pockets drawn for them, with fabrics selected alongside your interior scheme. The result reads as architecture: light that follows the day, shades that disappear into the head detail, and no visible compromise explaining itself in the finished room.
The eraser on the drafting table beats the sledgehammer on site, so our value is greatest at schematic design, when equipment rooms, ceiling depths, conduit pathways, and panel locations are still lines on paper. We produce low voltage plans, lighting circuit schedules, and device locations coordinated with your architecture, answer RFIs quickly, and attend the meetings that matter. Because we hold both the C10 electrical and C7 low voltage licenses, the technology never arrives as a second, conflicting set of assumptions: one team, one drawing set, and a built result that matches what you drew. Bring your clients to the San Carlos showroom and let them experience lighting, shading, and control living in real rooms before a single fixture is specified.
For complex custom residences, low voltage and integrated systems touch nearly every architectural package: reflected ceilings, millwork, glazing, doors and hardware, lighting, landscape, mechanical, electrical and interiors. Regent5 works early enough to coordinate the technical requirements before they become field conflicts, while keeping visible devices, controls and equipment subordinate to the architecture.
Device locations, structured wiring, fiber pathways, network infrastructure, security, access control, AV and automation are coordinated against the architectural set rather than laid out independently in the field.
Speakers, access points, sensors, cameras, lighting devices, projector lifts, screens and shade pockets are coordinated with ceiling geometry, trim conditions, framing, millwork and finish tolerances so the technology disappears into the composition.
Rack elevations, equipment rooms, conduit pathways, ventilation, service access and inter-building fiber are planned before square footage is committed elsewhere. The finished home remains maintainable without sacrificing the architectural program.
The project closes with systems tested together, scenes and controls calibrated, documentation brought current, and the owner or estate team trained. That protects both the design intent and the residence after the construction team leaves.
Regent5’s C10 electrical and C7 low-voltage capabilities allow lighting controls, motorized shades, networking, security, AV, automation, service upgrades and resilient power to be coordinated as connected systems rather than separate subcontractor assumptions. Where a project has a lighting designer, security consultant, landscape architect or specialist AV/acoustics consultant, Regent5 works with that team and carries the engineering and installation interfaces required to realize the design.
For deeper construction documentation, see Residential Technology Preconstruction & Low-Voltage Engineering. Builders can use the General Contractors & Builders resource, and owner-side teams can use the Owner’s Rep & Family Office resource.
Architectural lighting control & Ketra · Motorized shades & drapery · Architectural lighting fixtures · Invisible & small-aperture audio · Structured wiring & fiber · Security & access · Resilient power & microgrids
Regional and city-specific project conditions are organized through the Services & Cities hub, including Peninsula estates, San Francisco renovations, South Bay hillside homes, Marin/coastal residences and the Carmel/Monterey Peninsula.
Schematic design, alongside your other consultants. That is when equipment rooms, ceiling depths for shades and speakers, conduit pathways, and panel locations are inexpensive lines on paper instead of change orders. We contribute planning documentation to your set from that point forward.
Consolidation and specification. Banks of switches become single engraved keypads, device locations are placed on the drawings at heights you approve, and hardware is selected from Lutron's Alisse, Palladiom, and seeTouch lines in finishes that belong to the interior scheme. The wall stays yours.
Yes, and it shortens the selection process considerably. Our San Carlos showroom runs Lutron, Ketra, Savant, Control4, and Crestron systems live, with every keypad line and finish on display, so clients make lighting and control decisions with the hardware in hand rather than from a cut sheet.
With them. The lighting designer owns the intent; we engineer the control system, circuiting, and fixtures such as Ketra that realize it, and we make sure the drawings agree before the field does. Where there is no lighting designer on the project, we carry that scope ourselves.
We are, and the goal is that it never reaches the site. Holding both the C10 electrical and C7 low voltage licenses means the power and technology are one coordinated drawing set from the start, we answer RFIs quickly, and conflicts get resolved on paper where they are cheap.
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