Client: Rowberry Morris | Sector: Solicitors| Duration: 1 Month
Rowberry Morris is a law firm with several offices in Reading / Berkshire, Richmond, and Tadley. Due to an upgrade to a new VOIP Telephone system in the Reading and Staines offices, new Cat5e telephone cabling was required throughout both buildings.
Telephone Cabling
The existing telephone cabling in the offices was legacy BT, which wasn’t suitable for VoIP transmission. VoIP telephone cabling requires a data cabling installation for transmission. Furthermore, it requires professionally installed and tested data cabling. Moreover, if the cabling is poorly installed, voice quality is compromised, or dropouts occur regularly. Thus, new data cabling needs to be installed for VOIP when old legacy cabling is found. This can be data cabling ranging from Cat5e to Cat6a and beyond
Therefore, at the two Rowberry Morris offices, new Cat5e cabling was required throughout. However, the Cat5e wiring in both buildings was of totally opposite requirements
Reading Office
The Reading office is located in a listed 16th Century House, previously incorporated as a Village Inn
Therefore, due to the listed nature, the structured cabling installation had very specific rules and requirements with regard to routes, drilling and containment of the telephone cabling
Firstly, special consideration was given to the building’s timbers and structure due to its listed status. Furthermore, these timbers couldn’t be drilled or clipped to maintain their listed nature.
Secondly, care had to be taken to avoid drilling walls and floors, which were also in places listed and restricted
As the photos sho,w the building shows its age and character, and everything was done to maintain the aesthetics and credibility of this structure
Staines Office
The Staines office was of a more straightforward data cabling installation.
Firstly, it was located in a main row of shops and commercial buildings. Furthermore, the building consisted of 3 floors of modern commercial construction.
Although the upper two floors had solid ceilings and required data cabling trunking to be installed throughout. However, the trunking was possible to install and to run the Cat5e cables
Furthermor,e there was an existing loft which allowed for easier installation of the telephone cabling on the top floor
Once agai,n all work was undertaken overnight to minimise disruption to the business, as it was a fully staffed operational office
Out of Hours Telephone Cabling
Due to the nature of the business, all these works were carried out out of hours over several weeks of overnight working, requiring the data cabling installation and replacement of the office to its working condition for the next day.
