Ten projects using Crestron solutions that are truly “best in class”

Dec. 1, 2023 - In September — during the 2023 CEDIA® Expo tradeshow — we announced the winners of this year’s Crestron Home Technology Awards. Ten firms were honored for their work in nine categories. Since the announcement, we’ve been gathering info on these amazing projects, and here are all the details.

The winners are:

Ultimate Crestron Home:

• Stoneledge by Enhanced Home (See the full case study)
• Tenenbaum by Bliss Home Entertainment (See the full case study)

Ultimate Multi-Dwelling Unit: One Thousand Museum by AHT Global  (See the full case study)

Best Design Meets Technology: Camping Out by Quality Audio Video  (See the full case study)

Best Entertainment Everywhere Solution: Jones Residence by Pacific Audio & Communication  (See the full case study)

Health & Wellness Home of the Year: The Viscardi Center by Path Audio Visual  (See the full case study)

Best Integration Utilizing Crestron Partners/Extensions: Meta Residence by Think Simple  (See the full case study)

Best Shading Application: Kowalchuk by Future Technologies  (See the full case study)

Best Lighting Application: Fort Myers Residence by Phil’s Phancy Programming  (See the full case study)

Best Showroom/Demo Space: Haas Showroom by Haas Home Technology  (See the full case study)

Ultimate Crestron Home

Project: Stoneledge

Integrator: Enhanced Home

Alpesh Patel, the founder of the firm behind this masterpiece, really does take his work home with him: Stoneledge is both his family’s residence and a showroom that demonstrates the true scope and potential of a complete Crestron system. Patel actually “walks the walk” — he’s able to demo the very solutions he recommends to customers as they’re in use in his own home. “Crestron technology has helped us achieve our goal of creating unique spaces that you can actually use,” says Patel.

The solutions in those spaces include automated lighting, shading, HVAC, distributed audio and video, touch screen control, and more — all powered by Crestron technology. The home isn’t a “set it and forget it” showplace, either, according to Cortney Combs, the design and client relations specialist for Enhanced Home. “In the first year following the home build, we changed the custom system to Crestron Home,” says Combs. This has been a game changer for Enhanced Home, as it has made the system more approachable and easily scalable to homes of any size.”

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Ultimate Crestron Home

Project: Tenenbaum Residence

Integrator: Bliss HTA

Ready for a party? One of the most often-used scenes programmed into this home’s automation system can entertain thousands of guests — yes, thousands — with the push of a single button. Acting as a kind of “electronic butler,” triggering the “Entertain” mode orchestrates a synchronized sequence complete with lighting, shading, music, water elements, and even fire features. Every detail’s accounted for, including customized screen savers for the home’s displays and automatic temperature control to keep the partygoers comfortable.

More sedate functions include a daily routine that automatically adjusts lighting and shading in the morning hours and transitions into bedtime mode at 11:00 p.m. nightly. The scale of the project is notable, including 16 video zones, 11 HVAC zones, six patio heaters, control for two pools, and a dedicated home cinema. The project also includes a showroom purpose-built for the client’s luxury car collection.

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Ultimate Multi-Dwelling Unit

Project: One Thousand Museum

Integrator: AHT Global

Creating the right MDU solution has its own set of unique challenges: Can the home automation be repeatable and scalable? Is there room for customization among the individual residences? And what kind of solutions are right for the common areas? There’s another challenge particular to this project: A system that provides the kind of luxury expressed by the building itself. One Thousand Museum is the late architect Zaha Hadid’s only residential skyscraper in the Western Hemisphere.

AHT Global turned to Crestron for a base package that offered audio, lighting, HVAC, window treatments, and security solutions powered by the Crestron Home® OS. Individual owners of the units (ranging in size from 4,600 to 10,000 square feet) can customize the package with the addition of DM NVX® AV-over-IP technology, for example. AHT Global Project Manager Doug Hirsch notes, “Crestron Home gives us the ability to control just about everything. It’s extremely broad in its scope, and the quality of the product itself is so incredibly high.”

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