Course Code: NCSA 103
Academic Year: 2024-2025
This course will demonstrate to students how to interpret and apply codes and standards to perform installation, according to job specifications and related legislation; identify related drawings and specifications; identify and select hand tools and power and powder actuated tools required for installation; identify select and maintain test equipment; perform site inspections to confirm that job specifications, industry standards and building codes match the drawings; and calculate the box fill and conduit fill ratios according to industry standards. Students will learn to select routing for the installation of the cable plant according to work-site conditions; create openings in a structure to allow for the installation of inside and outside cable plant; install supports, cable trays and raceways in an inside and outside plant; select and use test procedures and prepare the cable for installation in various types of environments; label and dress cables to the termination points; install and connect equipment in an inside and outside plant; label a cable plant; and test equipment interconnecting cables, coaxial cable plants, unshielded twisted pair/shielded twisted pair/screened twisted pair (UTP/STP/ScTP) cable systems, optical fibre cable plants. Students will also learn to perform final inspection and documentation for various types of cable plants and communicate with client to ensure that the installation is to job specifications.