[K12OSN] Help design a new elementary school!

[Rob Owens]

Regarding the conduit:

Every bend you put in conduit makes it harder to pull
wires through it -- especially if there are a lot of
wires in a single conduit.  I would try to eliminate
all bends by terminating all your straight conduit
runs in some sort of access panel.  The access panel
will serve as your "information highway intersection".
 If you need to have a blind bend somewhere (I mean a
bend that is inaccessible), I would definitely try to
limit it to one.

You might want to see if there are any regulations as
to how many wires you are allowed to run through a
certain size conduit.  I know there are rules for
power wiring, but I doubt there are any for low-power
stuff like ethernet, etc.  Still, you should check
into it so you know how much conduit you should
install.

-Rob

--- The Prof <joseph.bishay at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks to everyone who has replied so far - I've
> taken notes for some
> good points.  In terms of specific questions people
> have been asking,
> we are building an entirely new structure, not
> renovating an old one.
> And the design is a typical school - 3 floors,
> fixed-size classrooms
> (average 800 sq feet) for each grade, art, library,
> etc.
> 
> To summarize the points so far:
> 1) lots of conduits for pulling cables now and in
> the future!
> 2) wiring for ceiling projectors in each classroom
> 3) planning for wireless (what does this mean
> anyway? thinner walls?)
> 
> (The other options, such as smart boards, etc, are a
> bit beyond our
> budget, but I doubt they affect anything in the
> design phase.)
> 
> There was some discussion about the IDFs - I'm not
> sure what that
> stands for, but I'm assuming that it refers to where
> all the servers
> are.  We currently don't have anything like that in
> our school. We
> just have the tower for the lab sitting in a corner
> of the lab room. 
> Is that the best approach? I thought a server room
> was mainly for
> rack-mounted servers.
> 
> Along those lines, are there any comments or
> suggestions about how to
> distribute the thin-clients around the school? Our
> location doesn't
> have a specific curriculum for computers, so it is
> up to us to decide.
> What are the pros vs. cons of a 'computer lab' where
> all the machines
> are situated, vs. spreading them out in all the
> classrooms?  As well,
> during how first wiring phase, how many drops should
> be going to each
> classroom? I've heard numbers as high as 4 or 5.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joseph
> 


		
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