Client: Lloyds Building| Sector: Commercial| Duration: Various
Lloyds IT Direct – Office Cabling Services
Based within the Lloyds building in The City of London, Lloyds IT Direct was an internal IT Support and Solutions department. Subsequently, they would use collective buying power to secure better pricing and installation of IT services. Primarily, these were to the Lloyds of London companies, in-house and off-site. In addition, they would offer office cabling services to support the IT hardware installations. Therefore, the structured cabling, fibre-optic cabling, and electrical installations were services supplied by NM cabling on behalf of Lloyds IT Direct.
Lloyds Building Clients
The data cabling and electrical projects consisted of installations within the Lloyds building itself. This is where members would have smaller offices or open-plan desk layouts. Therefore, during employee changes, they would require additional electrical and data cabling installations. Furthermore, floor boxes were also constantly moved to suit new layouts and numbers
The in-house installations had their challenges. Firstly, the internal commercial space within Lloyds is very congested. Therefore, the majority of the work had to be undertaken out of hours. Secondly, the moves and changes were generally made with short notice, so engineering had to be moved from other projects. Lastly, each client in the building would have different requirements regarding their office cabling services. Although within the same building, the requirements were ever-changing
Off-Site Office Cabling Services
The larger number of installations, however, was undertaken at off-site offices. These were the offices that the Lloyds member companies were moving into or expanding.
In these new offices, the requirements for the number of outlets were generally higher. Therefore, additional requirements and work are required to install these user outlets.
In contrast to the offices based within Lloyds, these offices required new data cabling cabinets, containment, floor boxes, and grommets. Furthermore, at times, upgraded electrical circuits. The works were usually on short time scales. In addition, the offices could be anywhere in the country. However, they were generally based close to the Lloyds building
Additional works also included moves and changes to existing spaces, including the relocation of floor boxes and grommets. Subsequently, the data cabling and patching would be redone after the desk layout necessitated moving the IT equipment. The majority of these works were undertaken out of hours due to the delicate nature of avoiding downtime when the markets were open
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