After a job in Dubai, I'm convinced our cable planning for tall buildings is all wrong. | Alarm System Installers - Freelance Forum - The Community for Independent Professionals

Everything we add these days just piles up.

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Yeah, what about the sheer weight of all that cabling on the building's structure? We might be adding tons of extra load nobody calculates.

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joelh296mo ago

Seriously, that's such a good point. It's like what @patricia_bennett52 said about piling on until things break, but with actual physical weight. I saw a server room retrofit once and the floor was literally sagging from all the new wires.

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patricia_bennett526mo ago

Working in Dubai showed me how fast they build up, literally. It reminds me of how we just keep adding apps and devices to old home Wi-Fi until it gives out.

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