Watercare Head Office
The Customer’s Requirement
Watercare is a council organisation, wholly owned by the Auckland Council. It provides water and wastewater services in the Auckland region.
When Watercare relocated its head office to a new building at 73 Remuera Rd, Newmarket, staff from three Watercare sites relocated into the new building, which meant space within the building was at a premium, and a key objective for Watercare was ensuring they had a cabling solution that permitted maximum flexibility into the future.
The solution encompassing Category 6A cabling has achieved this key objective as it has enabled Watercare to grow, whilst minimising the additional structured cabling requirements.
Since the initial installation, ITL Technologies have continued to support Watercare with their Infrastructure Structured cabling requirements, within Head office and their various sites within the greater Auckland area.
The Customer’s Solution
ITL proposed a Krone Category 6A Unshielded Solution for Watercare’s new premises at 73 Remuera Road Auckland.
The solution was configured so that the structured cabling serving the environment is routed via ceiling-mounted Consolidation Points. This approach allows additional workstations and office reconfigurations to be completed with minimal changes to the Floor Distribution Rooms, as new outlet ports can be connected directly to the in-ceiling Consolidation Points.
The Customer’s Outcome
Horizontal Cabling
- The solution proposed and deployed was a TE Krone Cat 6A UTP Solution
- Installation of Horizontal cables from the FD’s to the TO’s, CP’s and Muto’s
- Installation of Dual Compartment Cable Droppers for Power and IT Cabling
Consolidation Points (CP) & Muto’s
- Installation of 24-Port Consolidation Points with spare capacity
- Installation of 6-Port Muto’s (Multi-User Telecommunications Outlet)
Wireless Access Points
- Installation of client supplied WAPs
Cabinet and Accessories
- Installation of 13x Cabinets as per the Specification. These Cabinets will be Bayed together and earthed as per the specification
Documentation CAD / As-builts
- During the project ITL provided Shop Drawings and Issued for Construction (IFC) drawings
- On completion ITL provided OM / As-built, Manuals in Hard and Soft copy, which required these to be in folders, neatly bound, durable hard backed, permanently labelled vinyl covers
Testing Commissioning/ Witness Testing
ITL Fully tested and commissioned the Structured Cabling Distribution System prior to practical completion. This included;
- A comprehensive test sheet detailing all commissioning test items
- All compliance tests shall be carried out to comply with AS/NZ 3080
- Ensure compliance with the contract documents
- Check all labelling
- Check and test the performance of all ‘basic links’
- Test from all FD’s to all TO’s, spare CP ports and MUTO’s
- Provide written test result schedules of all commissioning tests and checks carried out.
- Individual ‘PASS’ test results for each permanent link
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