Course Code
Academic Year
This course will demonstrate to the students how to interpret and apply codes and standards to perform the installation, according to job specifications and related legislation, identify related drawings and specifications, identify and select hand tools, power and powder actuated tools required for the 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. 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, 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. Perform final inspection and documentation for various types of cable plants, communicate with client to ensure that the installation is to job specifications.