General Guidelines Summary
(Revised Oct. 4, 2007)

Architect's responsibilities

For new building projects on the UCSD campus, or major renovations of an existing building, the architect is responsible to:

• Design physical pathways for installation of telecommunications cables
• Provide rooms dedicated to telecommunications cabling and equipment
• Identify telecommunications outlet (TO) locations in conformance with the customer's requirements

In general, buildings will have one room known as the Telecommunications Equipment Room (T-E-R), also referred to as the main telecommunications room, located in the basement or on the first floor, and one or more smaller rooms known as Telecommunications Rooms (TRs) on each floor above.

ACT's responsibilities

The Administrative Computing and Telecommunications (ACT) department provides design requirements for the telecommunications infrastructure. ACT gives its comments to the architects through the Facilities Design and Construction office's electrical engineer and project manager.

Cabling: ACT designs both outside plant (OSP) and inside plant (ISP) telecommunications cabling schemes for the building. ACT also prepares drawings, called TE-series drawings, and written specifications, Section 16750, for the installation of cables to the building and within the building. These drawings and specifications must be included in the general bid documents.

Equipment and costs: ACT gives FD&C a cost estimate for the cabling. UCSD also includes data and video communications networking equipment in the budget for new buildings. ACT specifies the networking equipment, sees that it is included in the budget, orders it and installs it once the building is complete. The architect is not concerned with any aspects of the networking equipment, aside from providing sufficient space (at ACT's direction).

Inspection: During the construction phase, ACT provides consultation and worksite inspection services to FD&C's site inspector regarding all aspects of the telecommunications infrastructure and cables.

Questions? Please contact Eddie Mardon, (858) 534-5960.