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Facilities Design and Construction (FD&C) architects and engineers use these guidelines todesign physical pathways for telecommunications cables with new building projects on the UCSDcampus.
(Revised Oct. 4, 2007)
For new building projects on the UCSD campus, or major renovations of an existing building, the architect is responsible to:
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.
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.
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.
Refer to the full version of Telecommunications Design Guidelines fordetails of ACT's requirements.