Melrose Company Names AVI Technology Integrator for Echelon, Home of the Georgia Tech Club ATLANTA, GA, Aprill 2005 The Melrose Company of Hilton Head, South Carolina, a developer of prestigious golf clubs and residential communities across the country, has selected Alpharetta-based AVI, Inc. as the technology integrator for Echelon, Home of the Georgia Tech Club, a master-planned, high-tech golf community being built in Fulton and Cherokee Counties. "Echelon / Georgia Tech Club will set new standards for elegance, excellence and technology in master-planned, golf communities," said William R. Shine III, Vice President – University Clubs by Melrose and General Manager of Echelon / Georgia Tech Club. "We selected AVI to help us achieve our technology vision for this community because of their in-depth knowledge of broadband and communications infrastructure and proven expertise in designing and integrating sophisticated home entertainment, control and information systems." As technology integrator, AVI will assist Melrose in developing the technology plan for Echelon and coordinate the work of service providers in several key areas: installation of telephone, cable TV and broadband communications infrastructure; gate security and other controlled access systems; a community-wide camera system; a community intranet; and the installation of wireless hot-spots. AVI also will specify the wiring standards to ensure that every home in the community will have the wiring infrastructure to support and enable the networking of today’s and tomorrow’s digital technology products for home theaters, multi-room audio and video, entertainment PCs and media servers, as well as sophisticated security, surveillance, lighting and climate control systems. AVI also will equip the clubhouse and Golf Learning Center with state-of-the art video, audio, security and automation systems and install a home technology demo theater in the Information Center. Echelon, Home of the Georgia Tech Club, is a 610-acre tract in Alpharetta off of Birmingham Highway that will have over 200 home sites. It will feature an 18-hole, Rees Jones-designed golf course and the southeast's largest Golf Learning Center. The golf course will be the home course of Georgia Tech's NCAA Golf Team. The community also will include a Jr. Olympic-sized swimming pool, a fitness center and first-class tennis center designed by U.S. Open and Wimbledon Champion, Stan Smith About The Melrose Company – Founded in 1984, the Melrose Company of Hilton Head, South Carolina is one of the nation's largest and most active recreational, golf and residential community developers, with projects completed or under way in Colorado, Utah, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Georgia, Indiana and Texas. Relationships with renowned golf course architects such as Rees Jones, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Fazio, Tom Weiskopf and Arthur Hills have resulted in courses that have received national recognition. Melrose has created some of the nation's best-known recreational communities, including the 4,000-acre Hilton Head Plantation on Hilton Head Island, Sagamore in Indiana and the Tradition's Club at Texas A&M. About AVI – AVI is one of the Southeast’s leading home technology integrators. Working with custom builders, architects, developers and homeowners, it designs, installs, integrates and services a broad range of home entertainment, control and information systems, including: Home theaters; distributed audio-video; lighting and climate control; home automation; security and surveillance; phone and computer systems and networks. The company has offices in Atlanta, St. Simons Island, Asheville, NC and Destin, FL.