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Do you happen to have any pictures? In some instances the cable tray is a good 20 feet away from where say 40 drops need to go.

Maybe a better question is do you guys run the trays right over where the workstations are?

Thanks!

235 per CAT 6 loc is right in line.

We normally run our paths in the aisles between the cube runs if going to the wall to drop down (easier to do the ladder work on install and later adds), and you can get 2 cube runs usually with each path. Use j hooks for those and attach to struts w/beam clamps. If they will provide power poles you need to get the furniture schedule with the power poles laid out. Otherwise you can waste a LOT of expensive cable just making sure your runs are long enough.

Coordinating with the furniture guys can be a real hassle but it will be extremely important to your bottom line when the job is done. Many of the companies I have worked with stage material and supplies during the first 3 days of the week and only assemble cubes at the end of the week. To you that means keeping up with (sometimes large) furniture crews doing the bundle drops for 2 days and then getting stuck working long weekends running cubes, jacking and testing so the customer can move in on monday.

Cube work always seems to be late night or weekends, unless the project manager (if there is one) has things planned out plenty ahead of time. Moves are usually this way just because of the short time allotted for tear-down, move, and setup. In that case, you almost always have to opt to have extra cable just in case. I did one about a year ago where the customer and furniture guy and I all were there discussing power pole placement. When they actually setup the cubes, the customer's boss changed where the pole was to go, and it added considerable length to the required length of cables. At that point I was glad I pulled extra length.

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