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Issue/Question
What information should be provided to Facilities Management (FM) regarding audiovisual installation (AV) on new or remodeled construction?
Environment
- New or remodel construction
- Classroom
- Conference or meeting room
- Digital signage
Cause
Contractor hired by FM needs to have specifications for power, network, conduit, and scope of work.
Resolution
ITS STAFF ONLY
- TV installations
- Blocking: 4' x 4' blocking with power/network in center
- Network: 2 network
- Power: 1 duplex outlet
- Typical mount: Chief model #LTM1U
- Conduit: 1.25" from TV location to
- Laptop connection below TV
- Accessible ceiling space
- Contractor and AV installer scope of work
- Contractor installs blocking, TV mount on wall, conduit, power and network
- AV installer installs TV, laptop connection and any cabling back to AV equipment rack
- Typical TV: NEC E Series, Samsung Commercial Grade
Note: American with Disabilities Act (ADA) requirements are that the display may not protrude more than 4" from the wall unless the bottom of the display is at 80" or higher.
- Projector
- Typical mount: Chief model #RPAU
- Network: 2 network
- Power: 1 duplex outlet
- Conduit: if hard ceiling - 1.25" to AV equipment rack
- Contractor and AV installer scope of work
- Contractor installs conduit, power, network and structure above ceiling for mount
- If hard ceiling - contractor installs 1.5" National Standard Pipe Thread (NPT) pipe through ceiling and secures to structure
- Pipe length is decided by ITS
- AV installer installs projector mount, projector and any AV cabling back to AV equipment rack
- Typical projector: Maxell MP-EU5002, Aspect Ratio 16:10
- Conference Table
- Media well: power and room for coiled laptop connection cables
- Floor box: 1 duplex power, network, space for AV cabling (see Slagle Hall room 104 for good example)
- Power: at least 1 duplex outlet per media well
- Network: 2 network (VOIP conference phone, Touch Panel controller)
- Conduit: 1.25" AV conduit from floor box to AV equipment rack
- Contractor and AV installer scope of work
- contractor installs floor box with power, network and AV conduit
- AV installer installs AV cabling and laptop connection
- furniture installer/contractor connects media well power to floor box power
- Instructor Desk and/or Equipment Rack
- Network: 6 network
- Power: 1 duplex outlet
- Typical desk:
- Network
- Power
- Conduit
- Contractor and AV installer scope of work
- Projector screens
- Typical style and options: wide 16:10, electric 120v, matte white, in-ceiling recessed, low voltage control
- Note: do not install low voltage wall switch. Screen will be controlled from equipment in the AV system rack
- Typical model: Dalite model Advantage Series with Closure Door (previously named Advantage Deluxe Electrol)
- Note: this is not the tensioned version
- Conduit: path from screen motor to AV equipment rack for low voltage control cable
- Contractor and AV installer scope of work
- Contractor provides and installs screen
- AV installer runs and connects low voltage control cable to screen