Explore the intricate workings of a cabling and construction details sheet, complete with symbols, mounting heights, and technology types. Discover how this vital resource provides clear and organized information for project specific installations such as typical telephone outlet cables, ceiling mounts, and wireless access points.
Key Insights
- The cabling and construction details sheet is a comprehensive guide to project-specific installations, including telephone outlet cables, cable TV outlets, and wireless access points, each represented with specific symbols and mounting heights.
- Each symbol on the sheet has a purpose; for example, a square indicates a floor mount, a line through a symbol signifies above a counter, and a circle denotes a ceiling mount. The use of different shapes for the symbols, such as rectangles and hexagons, also distinguish between different technology types.
- The sheet provides standard guidance for cabling identification plans in guest suites, ensuring clarity and organization. This systematic approach extends to the representation of other equipment, such as interior dome cameras, card readers, and door contact cabling, among others.
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Let's look at our cabling and construction details sheet. Over here in the top left corner you'll see the cabling keynotes and the raceway keynotes. These will be identical to the ones that we just saw on our guest room technology drawings.
Now this drawing is relatively project specific in that they're addressing the generics of how to install and what to use on different kinds of technology cablings. So the details are going from the right to the left and then down. So they're addressing typical telephone outlet cables.
So you can see that they're calling it, they're showing the symbol, they're showing a mounting height, and they're saying what's there. It's an RJ45 jack using Cat5e or Cat6 cable. Typical data, different symbol.
They tell more about it here. If it's a typical voice data, again you can see how this symbol is solid filled in. This is not filled in.
This duplex is half white, half black. This one over here is a typical dual voice data outlet. You can see that it has the number 2 over the number 2. We pan over to here.
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You can see the different symbols that they're using, how they're calling out the mounting height, a plus 48 here. If it's a floor mount, it's a square. Above a counter, the symbol with a line through it.
A ceiling mount with a circle. And we're seeing that if we remember back to our reflected ceiling plan for the speakers in the public spaces, that the surface mounted fixtures for the speakers were also surrounded by a circle. They're denoting the height.
Cable TV outlets, the symbols. Typical digital signage outlet cables. So again, CATV is round.
The others are rectangular or hexagons. Interior dome camera cabling. We've also seen this same symbol for the cameras in the building.
Wireless access points. We've seen the WAPs in the drawings. So again, there's saying go to the IDF or other venues.
Then the keynotes that talk about it. The card reader. We've seen the card readers.
Door contact cabling. Electric door strikes. Electric door latches.
Keypads. The duress buttons. And yet another duress button.
Motion egress cables. Signal light cabling. Intercom cabling.
And code blue assistance panel. You will also see that they are providing standard guidance for cabling identification plans on the guest suites. And this is very similar to what we just saw in our guest room technology drawings.
So they've put a good package together. The information is very clear. It's very well organized.
And there's a logic between the different symbol representations. Let's review our next drawing.
