If you’re planning a data cabling installation, here’s a checklist to help you achieve the ideal design and to ensure it goes smoothly:
Specification
1. What locations are available for the data cabinet(s)?
2. Where are data outlets required?
3. What cable specification do you need for your present and future purposes? Here’s a helpful resource to help you understand cable selection.
4. Can the cabling system installer carry out a site survey or calculate the requirements from plans?
Cable routes
5. Are cable routes available and accessible to meet the installation schedule?
6. Is containment, such as cable tray or trunking, required, either for aesthetic reasons or cable protection?
7. If cables are to be pulled through underground ducts, are they suitable and complete with draw ropes?
8. Can the cables be installed without damaging existing cables?
Safety
9. Are the premises or cable routes free of asbestos and is an asbestos register is available for reference?
10. Any there any other known health and safety risks associated with the route? E.g. Unstable infrastructure, harmful substances, vermin?
11. What safety precautions will be required? E.g. Testing for gas hazard; Erection of guards and protective structures; Warning signs.
Program
12. Where does the cabling system installation fit into the program of works?
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