AS/NZS 3084:2017
Telecommunications installations - Telecommunications pathways and spaces for commercial buildings
Provides specific guidance to architects, planners, designers, engineers, builders, installers, maintenance personnel, building owners, managers and users in the planning and installation of physical pathways and spaces in and between buildings to accommodate the equipment and cabling infrastructure necessary for communications, to the extent that this is not adequately covered for Australian and New Zealand purposes in AS/NZS ISO/IEC 14763.2:2014.
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AS/NZS 3084:2017 Telecommunications pathways and spaces for commercial buildings
Preface
Foreword
Section 1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Application
1.2.1 General
1.2.2 Choice of design options
1.2.3 Australia—Application context
1.2.4 New Zealand—Application context
1.3 Referenced and related documents
1.3.1 Referenced documents
1.3.2 New Zealand equivalent documents
1.4 Definitions
1.5 Abbreviations
Section 2 Structure of a pathways and spaces infrastructure
2.1 Multi-storey building (general, single tenant)
2.2 Multi-tenant multi-storey building
2.3 Single storey large floor footprint buildings
2.3.1 General
2.3.2 Single tenant
2.3.3 Multi-tenant
2.3.4 Campus of single storey buildings
2.4 Campus with mixed single and multi-storey buildings
Section 3 Telecommunications rooms
3.1 General
3.1.1 Introduction
3.1.2 Location
3.1.3 Purpose
3.2 Size and spacing
3.2.1 Density
3.2.2 Room linkage
3.2.3 Size
3.2.4 Limited rooms
3.2.5 Ceiling height
3.2.6 Mounting of equipment
3.2.7 Layout
3.3 Floor loading
3.4 Provisioning
3.4.1 Lighting
3.4.2 Door
3.4.3 Ceiling
3.4.4 Treatment
3.4.5 Electrical power
3.4.6 Room penetrations
3.4.7 Fire protection
3.4.8 Environmental considerations
3.4.9 Seismic considerations
3.4.10 Water infiltration
3.5 Common telecommunications room
3.5.1 Purpose
3.5.2 Location
3.5.3 General requirements and pathways
3.5.4 Architectural considerations
3.5.5 Environmental considerations
3.5.6 Electrical considerations
3.5.7 Water infiltration
Section 4 Equipment rooms
4.1 General
4.1.1 Introduction
4.1.2 Purpose
4.1.3 Buildings forming part of a campus
4.2 Location
4.2.1 Expansion provisions
4.2.2 Access
4.2.3 Multi-tenant buildings
4.2.4 Pathway proximity
4.2.5 Floor
4.2.6 Water infiltration
4.2.7 Electromagnetic interference
4.2.8 Environmental considerations
4.2.9 Fire resistance
4.3 Size
4.3.1 General
4.3.2 Guidelines for general voice and data
4.3.3 Specific guidelines for special-use buildings
4.3.4 Guidelines for other equipment
4.4 Provisioning
4.4.1 Layout
4.4.2 Clearance height
4.4.3 Suspended ceiling
4.4.4 Contaminants
4.4.5 Pathways
4.4.6 Optical fibre trunking (raceway) for patch cords
4.4.7 Sprinklers
4.4.8 Heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment
4.4.9 Interior finishes
4.4.10 Lighting
4.4.11 Power
4.4.12 Door
4.4.13 Equipment earthing
4.4.14 Auxiliary fire extinguishers
4.4.15 Seismic considerations
4.4.16 Energy efficiency
4.5 Common equipment rooms
4.5.1 General
4.5.2 Location
4.5.3 Pathways
4.5.4 Architectural considerations
4.5.5 Environmental considerations
4.5.6 Electrical considerations
Section 5 Building entrance facilities
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Main terminal space
5.3 Entrance room or space
5.3.1 Purpose
5.3.2 Provisions for network interfaces and telecommunications equipment
5.3.3 Pathway sizing
5.3.4 Antenna entrance rooms
5.3.5 Location and type
5.3.6 Size
5.3.7 Provisioning
5.4 Entrance point location considerations
5.4.1 Permits
5.4.2 Antenna fields
5.4.3 Unrelated fixtures
5.5 Ingress through entry conduits
5.6 Telecommunications service entrance pathway
5.7 Access
5.8 Wireless
5.8.1 Line of sight
5.8.2 Cable pathways
5.8.3 Location
5.8.4 Support structures
5.8.5 Design considerations
5.9 Carrier telecommunications equipment spaces
5.9.1 General
5.9.2 Location
5.9.3 Pathways
5.9.4 Architectural considerations
5.9.5 Electrical considerations
Section 6 Work area pathways
6.1 Work area planning
6.2 Furniture pathways
6.2.1 General
6.2.2 Furniture pathway bend radius
6.2.3 Service poles
6.2.4 Power/telecommunications separation
6.3 Consolidation points
6.4 Multi-user telecommunications outlet assemblies
Section 7 Horizontal pathways
7.1 General
7.1.1 Introduction
7.1.2 Purpose
7.1.3 Access
7.1.4 Separation from power cables
7.1.5 Bonding and earthing
7.1.6 Asbestos hazard in brownfield buildings
7.2 Access floor
7.2.1 Introduction
7.2.2 Access floor types
7.2.3 Loading performance
7.2.4 Test methods for access floor
7.2.5 Fire rating
7.2.6 Seismic considerations
7.2.7 Building structure
7.2.8 Design guidelines and procedures for access flooring
7.2.9 Installation
7.3 Cable trays and trunking
7.3.1 Introduction
7.3.2 General
7.3.3 Location
7.3.4 General design information
7.3.5 Support
7.3.6 Accessories
7.3.7 Installation
7.4 Ceiling pathway
7.4.1 General
7.4.2 Considerations
7.4.3 Design guidelines
7.4.4 Telecommunications room termination
7.4.5 Wall and partition cabling
7.4.6 Cable support
7.5 Conduit systems and cable ducting systems
7.5.1 Application
7.5.2 Conduit design considerations
7.5.3 Conduit installation
7.6 Under floor pathway
7.6.1 General
7.6.2 Considerations
7.6.3 Design guidelines—Planning
7.6.4 Floor boxes
7.6.5 Distributors
7.6.6 Zones
7.6.7 Telecommunications room termination
7.7 Underground intra-building pathway
7.7.1 General
7.7.2 Considerations
7.7.3 Cable selection
7.7.4 Telecommunications room termination
7.8 Perimeter pathways
7.8.1 General
7.8.2 Types
7.8.3 Design guidelines and procedures
7.9 In-floor trunking and ducting systems
7.9.1 General
7.9.2 Types of underfloor duct
7.9.3 Design guidelines and procedures (in-floor duct)
7.9.4 Layout (in-floor duct)
7.9.5 Service fittings (in-floor duct)
7.10 In-wall cabling
7.11 Pathways with non-continuous fasteners and fixings
7.12 Undercarpet
7.12.1 General
7.12.2 Transition points
7.12.3 Design guidelines
7.13 Pull boxes and splice boxes in pathways
Section 8 Building backbone pathways
8.1 General
8.2 Vertical backbone pathways
8.3 Cable support
8.4 Lift shafts
8.5 Design
8.5.1 Capacity
8.5.2 Spare capacity
8.5.3 Firestopping
8.5.4 Conduit fill
8.5.5 Tray and duct fill
8.6 Horizontal backbone pathways
Section 9 Inter-building (campus) backbone pathways and related spaces
9.1 Campus backbone pathways
9.1.1 General
9.1.2 Directly buried pathways
9.1.3 Underground pathways
9.1.4 Aerial pathways
9.1.5 Tunnels
9.2 Underground pathways
9.2.1 Entrance facilities
9.2.2 Consideration
9.2.3 Trenches
9.2.4 Network service connection at the property boundary
9.2.5 Conduit layout design
9.2.6 Trenchless conduits
9.2.7 Pit design
9.2.8 Access hole (or ‘maintenance hole’) design
9.2.9 Trenched conduit installation
9.2.10 Pit installation
9.3 Aerial
9.3.1 Considerations
9.3.2 Attachment methods
9.4 Tunnels
Section 10 Miscellaneous pathways
10.1 Lift telecommunications
10.2 Separation of pathway and space from electromagnetic energy sources
10.2.1 Considerations
10.2.2 Segregation of power and telecommunications cables
10.3 Earth potential rise (EPR)
Appendix A (informative) Additional guidelines and examples
Appendix B (informative) Pit and pipe installation examples
Appendix C (informative) Equipment room energy efficiency rating considerations
Amendment control sheet
Amendments
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AS/NZS 3084:2017 Telecommunications pathways and spaces for commercial buildings
Preface
Foreword
Section 1 Scope and general
1.1 Scope
1.2 Application
1.2.1 General
1.2.2 Choice of design options
1.2.3 Australia—Application context
1.2.4 New Zealand—Application context
1.3 Referenced and related documents
1.3.1 Referenced documents
1.3.2 New Zealand equivalent documents
1.4 Definitions
1.5 Abbreviations
Section 2 Structure of a pathways and spaces infrastructure
2.1 Multi-storey building (general, single tenant)
2.2 Multi-tenant multi-storey building
2.3 Single storey large floor footprint buildings
2.3.1 General
2.3.2 Single tenant
2.3.3 Multi-tenant
2.3.4 Campus of single storey buildings
2.4 Campus with mixed single and multi-storey buildings
Section 3 Telecommunications rooms
3.1 General
3.1.1 Introduction
3.1.2 Location
3.1.3 Purpose
3.2 Size and spacing
3.2.1 Density
3.2.2 Room linkage
3.2.3 Size
3.2.4 Limited rooms
3.2.5 Ceiling height
3.2.6 Mounting of equipment
3.2.7 Layout
3.3 Floor loading
3.4 Provisioning
3.4.1 Lighting
3.4.2 Door
3.4.3 Ceiling
3.4.4 Treatment
3.4.5 Electrical power
3.4.6 Room penetrations
3.4.7 Fire protection
3.4.8 Environmental considerations
3.4.9 Seismic considerations
3.4.10 Water infiltration
3.5 Common telecommunications room
3.5.1 Purpose
3.5.2 Location
3.5.3 General requirements and pathways
3.5.4 Architectural considerations
3.5.5 Environmental considerations
3.5.6 Electrical considerations
3.5.7 Water infiltration
Section 4 Equipment rooms
4.1 General
4.1.1 Introduction
4.1.2 Purpose
4.1.3 Buildings forming part of a campus
4.2 Location
4.2.1 Expansion provisions
4.2.2 Access
4.2.3 Multi-tenant buildings
4.2.4 Pathway proximity
4.2.5 Floor
4.2.6 Water infiltration
4.2.7 Electromagnetic interference
4.2.8 Environmental considerations
4.2.9 Fire resistance
4.3 Size
4.3.1 General
4.3.2 Guidelines for general voice and data
4.3.3 Specific guidelines for special-use buildings
4.3.4 Guidelines for other equipment
4.4 Provisioning
4.4.1 Layout
4.4.2 Clearance height
4.4.3 Suspended ceiling
4.4.4 Contaminants
4.4.5 Pathways
4.4.6 Optical fibre trunking (raceway) for patch cords
4.4.7 Sprinklers
4.4.8 Heating ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) equipment
4.4.9 Interior finishes
4.4.10 Lighting
4.4.11 Power
4.4.12 Door
4.4.13 Equipment earthing
4.4.14 Auxiliary fire extinguishers
4.4.15 Seismic considerations
4.4.16 Energy efficiency
4.5 Common equipment rooms
4.5.1 General
4.5.2 Location
4.5.3 Pathways
4.5.4 Architectural considerations
4.5.5 Environmental considerations
4.5.6 Electrical considerations
Section 5 Building entrance facilities
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Main terminal space
5.3 Entrance room or space
5.3.1 Purpose
5.3.2 Provisions for network interfaces and telecommunications equipment
5.3.3 Pathway sizing
5.3.4 Antenna entrance rooms
5.3.5 Location and type
5.3.6 Size
5.3.7 Provisioning
5.4 Entrance point location considerations
5.4.1 Permits
5.4.2 Antenna fields
5.4.3 Unrelated fixtures
5.5 Ingress through entry conduits
5.6 Telecommunications service entrance pathway
5.7 Access
5.8 Wireless
5.8.1 Line of sight
5.8.2 Cable pathways
5.8.3 Location
5.8.4 Support structures
5.8.5 Design considerations
5.9 Carrier telecommunications equipment spaces
5.9.1 General
5.9.2 Location
5.9.3 Pathways
5.9.4 Architectural considerations
5.9.5 Electrical considerations
Section 6 Work area pathways
6.1 Work area planning
6.2 Furniture pathways
6.2.1 General
6.2.2 Furniture pathway bend radius
6.2.3 Service poles
6.2.4 Power/telecommunications separation
6.3 Consolidation points
6.4 Multi-user telecommunications outlet assemblies
Section 7 Horizontal pathways
7.1 General
7.1.1 Introduction
7.1.2 Purpose
7.1.3 Access
7.1.4 Separation from power cables
7.1.5 Bonding and earthing
7.1.6 Asbestos hazard in brownfield buildings
7.2 Access floor
7.2.1 Introduction
7.2.2 Access floor types
7.2.3 Loading performance
7.2.4 Test methods for access floor
7.2.5 Fire rating
7.2.6 Seismic considerations
7.2.7 Building structure
7.2.8 Design guidelines and procedures for access flooring
7.2.9 Installation
7.3 Cable trays and trunking
7.3.1 Introduction
7.3.2 General
7.3.3 Location
7.3.4 General design information
7.3.5 Support
7.3.6 Accessories
7.3.7 Installation
7.4 Ceiling pathway
7.4.1 General
7.4.2 Considerations
7.4.3 Design guidelines
7.4.4 Telecommunications room termination
7.4.5 Wall and partition cabling
7.4.6 Cable support
7.5 Conduit systems and cable ducting systems
7.5.1 Application
7.5.2 Conduit design considerations
7.5.3 Conduit installation
7.6 Under floor pathway
7.6.1 General
7.6.2 Considerations
7.6.3 Design guidelines—Planning
7.6.4 Floor boxes
7.6.5 Distributors
7.6.6 Zones
7.6.7 Telecommunications room termination
7.7 Underground intra-building pathway
7.7.1 General
7.7.2 Considerations
7.7.3 Cable selection
7.7.4 Telecommunications room termination
7.8 Perimeter pathways
7.8.1 General
7.8.2 Types
7.8.3 Design guidelines and procedures
7.9 In-floor trunking and ducting systems
7.9.1 General
7.9.2 Types of underfloor duct
7.9.3 Design guidelines and procedures (in-floor duct)
7.9.4 Layout (in-floor duct)
7.9.5 Service fittings (in-floor duct)
7.10 In-wall cabling
7.11 Pathways with non-continuous fasteners and fixings
7.12 Undercarpet
7.12.1 General
7.12.2 Transition points
7.12.3 Design guidelines
7.13 Pull boxes and splice boxes in pathways
Section 8 Building backbone pathways
8.1 General
8.2 Vertical backbone pathways
8.3 Cable support
8.4 Lift shafts
8.5 Design
8.5.1 Capacity
8.5.2 Spare capacity
8.5.3 Firestopping
8.5.4 Conduit fill
8.5.5 Tray and duct fill
8.6 Horizontal backbone pathways
Section 9 Inter-building (campus) backbone pathways and related spaces
9.1 Campus backbone pathways
9.1.1 General
9.1.2 Directly buried pathways
9.1.3 Underground pathways
9.1.4 Aerial pathways
9.1.5 Tunnels
9.2 Underground pathways
9.2.1 Entrance facilities
9.2.2 Consideration
9.2.3 Trenches
9.2.4 Network service connection at the property boundary
9.2.5 Conduit layout design
9.2.6 Trenchless conduits
9.2.7 Pit design
9.2.8 Access hole (or ‘maintenance hole’) design
9.2.9 Trenched conduit installation
9.2.10 Pit installation
9.3 Aerial
9.3.1 Considerations
9.3.2 Attachment methods
9.4 Tunnels
Section 10 Miscellaneous pathways
10.1 Lift telecommunications
10.2 Separation of pathway and space from electromagnetic energy sources
10.2.1 Considerations
10.2.2 Segregation of power and telecommunications cables
10.3 Earth potential rise (EPR)
Appendix A (informative) Additional guidelines and examples
Appendix B (informative) Pit and pipe installation examples
Appendix C (informative) Equipment room energy efficiency rating considerations
Amendment control sheet
Amendments
Previous versions
AS/NZS 3084:2017
Online Library subscription information
Online library subscriptions provide a cost-effective solution for organisations of any size to access the latest standards, offering 24/7 access to a personalised catalogue. The service ensures subscribers have have the most up-to-date version of selected standards, incluing automatic updates for any amendments or versions. Pricing is dependent on the chosen standards and the number of concurrent users, with discounts applied from the standards PDF price. For customised subscriptions or further inquiries, contact the Online Library team.