Now that the electrician, HVAC and plumbers have done all their rough in work, we brought in 11,000 feet of video, audio and network cable to run through to all the suites. We’re doing all this initial work ourselves and Bob Zelin will come on up here towards the end to add all the connectors and label everything up. Per Bob, we ordered everything direct from GEPCO cables in Chicago, prices are much lower than anything from Belden and Canare these days. Ordered the cables on Monday, they were here on Wednesday!
While we were working inside, the front end loader was taking down the dirt outside in preparation for the parking lot.
John and Adrienne mark the floor in 10′ increments to make it easy to pull the lengths of cable. Yeah, we could use a cable counter, but we don’t have one, so we’re going old school. One of the advantages of a 100′ building. LONG hallways!
Jenny organizing all the labels in the kitchen.
Video, Audio and network cable stretched down the hallway with John manning the boxes at the end of the hall. We used string initially to figure out all the cable runs by simply running the string exactly as we wanted to run the cables, and then just measure the string. Very simple, very low tech and very accurate.
John hanging out with rolls of cable. You like that pvc pipe support for the video spool? Yeah, it held up well enough….
Me and John pulling the longest cable runs out to the Conference Room. These are 95′ long.
Adrienne gathering up some labels in the kitchen.
Runs of cable ready and waiting in the Media Library to be pulled up through the ceiling. All edit suites got 2 video, 4 audio and 6 network cables.
Cable runs from Edit Suites 4 and 5 hanging down from the ceiling and you can see some of the serious air conditioning ducts that will feed into that room.
Remember that front end loader out front? I thought he was going to make the parking lot lower. Um, apparently this will be the VIP parking for my four wheel drive clients……
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