Elements and Performance Criteria
- Scope the project
- Prepare for given work according to relevant legislation, codes, regulations and standards including work health and safety (WHS) processes and procedures
- Obtain building plans and specifications from planning section
- Determine type of facility and building services required to house telecommunications network equipment and plant to efficiently support the network
- Determine the purpose of the main areas or rooms in the network building and note special requirements to support safe operation of the facility
- Verify who is responsible for planning, provisioning, maintaining and operation of a facility
- Evaluate power requirements
- Assess how functions of the main power and building services support network equipment and the impact if building services are not provided correctly or fail
- Produce a schematic diagram of the relationship of electrical components in an end-to-end power and building services system
- Assess different types of power sources likely to supply network equipment and determine benefits or deficiencies
- Determine how resiliency is built into provisioning of a reliable power supply and how different levels of reliability can be achieved
- Evaluate the impact of energy use and energy loads in the facility and determine how energy use can be minimised
- Evaluate requirements of air conditioning services
- Assess the main types of air conditioning components or plant available and their suitability to building requirements, and draw a schematic diagram of proposed layout
- Determine how different equipment rack heat dissipation and size of a load can affect cooling needs
- Evaluate how deployment of network equipment and other supporting infrastructure can affect performance and loading of the installed air conditioner
- Evaluate requirements of fire safety services
- Assess type, functions and components of fire service protection systems for fire and smoke required in a network facility for the safety and protection of people and assets
- Use the building plan to locate fire systems to be deployed to comply with fire regulations
- Evaluate effect equipment deployments may have on fire services and its ability to protect the site and maintain regulatory obligations
- Evaluate requirements of alarm systems
- Determine alarm requirements from the building plan and specifications
- Assess if basic monitoring is to be used with system or plant interrogation capabilities to produce an integrated alarm system for the facility
- Determine where alarm systems are monitored and actioned and the personnel responsible
- Evaluate what systems are used to connect power and building services output alarms, and the software requirements needed to allow interrogation
- Produce evaluation document