Technology designed in, not bolted on.

Technology engineers. A technology design and integration practice.

Lairds of Troon designs and installs the technology infrastructure of a building: the network it runs on, the security that protects it, and the audio, video, lighting and control that sit on top. Family-run from Ayrshire since 1999, working throughout Scotland.

Most technology arrives too late. A communications room has to be drawn at RIBA Stage 2. Containment has to be coordinated at Stage 3. Anything introduced after Stage 4 is not design, it is retrofit, and the client pays for it twice. We work to the RIBA Plan of Work with architects across Scotland, and we are the AV partner to the Glasgow Institute of Architects.

Infrastructure and security

Structured cabling, enterprise networking, and wireless designed against the building rather than hoped for. Cyber security is engineered in, not added afterwards. This is the part of the system buried in the fabric, and the part that cannot be redone cheaply.

Smart home and control

Lighting, heating, blinds, audio and access on one interface. Designed to be operated by whoever lives or works in the building, not by the person who installed it. If a system needs its installer, it has been designed badly.

Private cinema and listening rooms

Rooms measured and calibrated rather than fitted to a template. We work with Steinway Lyngdorf, Sonance and Screen Research, and we hand over the measurements.

Sports simulation

Golf and sports rooms planned to their spatial footprint before the walls go up, with the ceiling height, throw distance and acoustics resolved on the drawing rather than on site.

Commercial and hospitality

Bars, restaurants, boardrooms and events. Zoned audio, presentation and networks that bar staff and receptionists can run on a shift without calling anyone.

Security and surveillance

CCTV, access control and monitoring on the same designed network as everything else, so the security system is not a separate estate of cabling nobody documented.

Smart home technology · Our qualifications, awards and clients

Founded in 1999. Family-run and veteran-owned, based at Marathon House, Olympic Business Park, Kilmarnock.

Qualified, and able to prove it

Two master’s degrees, in network security and in cyber security, sixteen years apart. HNDs in cyber security across the engineering team through the Open University graduate apprenticeship scheme. Every certification on our About page is named with the body that awarded it and the year, so any of them can be checked.

Fourteen awards, each one linked to its issuer

Including Gold, Veteran Owned Business of the Year at the Scottish Veterans Awards, and Regional Winner for The Workforce Developer at the Chamber Business Awards. We publish the issuer and the verification link beside each one.

Fifty-four named clients

From Barclays and Ryanair to the Scottish Prison Service, the Scottish Maritime Museum and the Glasgow Institute of Architects. At Carnell Estates we were engaged directly by the United States Embassy during the Vice President’s visit in 2025. See the full client list.

We tell clients when not to proceed

At the St Enoch Centre we carried out acoustic and SPL testing for a restaurant fit-out and advised the client the space was unsuitable. That advice cost us the installation. It is the same reason we hand over test results on every cabling job rather than asking anyone to take our word for it.

Tell us about the building. Not the kit list. The building, the programme, and who else is on the team. That is what determines whether we can help, and what it costs to do properly.

If there is an architect involved, the earlier we speak the less it costs. If there is not, we can still design it properly, we just have fewer options.