Projects · Recent work

Recent commercial projects

Structured cabling, fiber, camera systems, and closet remediation in working commercial buildings. We are in the process of collecting photos and written approval from the owners before anything goes up here, because their buildings are not ours to publish.

Recent work

Our work, as it actually looks

These are our own installs, photographed on site. We have kept the captions to what is in the frame: no invented square footages, drop counts or dollar figures, and no client named without their say-so. If you want the detail behind any of them, call and we will talk it through.

A floor-to-ceiling distribution rack: patch panels landed and dressed above, switching below, service demarcation on the wall alongside.

Main distribution rack

Structured cabling. Horizontal drops brought back to a single distribution point, terminated to patch panels and dressed into vertical management. Every run labeled at both ends and tested before handover.

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Cable bundles combed into an open-frame rack and terminated across patch panels, with switching mounted below

Terminations and dressing

Structured cabling. Bundles combed out, cut to length, and landed across patch panels in order, so the next person to open this rack can trace a run without pulling on anything.

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A stack of network switches with patch cords routed through horizontal cable management between each panel

Switch stack and patch management

Structured cabling. Patch cords cut to length and routed through horizontal management between every panel and switch. Nothing draped, nothing blocking a port, nothing blocking airflow.

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A wall-mounted access control enclosure with labeled terminals and conduit run to the ceiling, beside a ceiling-height wireless access point

Access control and wireless

Low voltage devices. Controller mounted, terminals landed and labeled, conduit run in to protect the cable where it leaves the enclosure. The access point beside it was cabled by the same crew.

Camera and access systems →
A wall-mounted enclosed rack in a utility closet, with patch panels, switching, and a rack-mounted UPS

Closet rebuild

Network closet cleanup. An unmanaged closet rebuilt into an enclosed wall-mount rack: patch panels, switching, and a UPS on rails. See the before shot on the closet cleanup page.

Closet cleanup →
A finished office workstation with dual monitors, a ceiling speaker and a wireless access point overhead

Workstation delivery

Office fit-out. What the cabling is actually for: drops landed at the desk, coverage overhead, and a workspace that works on the day people move in.

Structured cabling →
In the meantime

How to judge a cabling contractor without a portfolio

Photos of ceiling tile all look the same anyway. Here is what actually tells you whether an install was done well, and what you should ask any contractor bidding your building.

  • Ask how they price it. If they will quote a commercial building over the phone, they are guessing, and the correction arrives as a change order.
  • Ask what you get at the end. Labeling at both ends and test results should be part of the base scope, not an upgrade.
  • Ask who is actually on site. Find out whether the person quoting the job will be in the building or whether it is going to whoever is cheapest that week.
  • Ask about occupied buildings. A contractor who has never worked around staff will discover the hard way that you cannot pull cable through an open clinic at 10am.
  • Ask about outside plant. Direct burial and aerial work is where inexperience shows up first, usually after weather.
  • Ask for the closeout package. If they cannot describe it, they do not produce one.

We are happy to answer all six of those on the phone. More on how we work is on our about page, and the full scope we handle is on our services page.

Types of work

Where this work usually happens

New construction

Rough-in and trim sequenced against the general contractor's schedule, with sleeves and pathways coordinated before walls close. For general contractors.

Occupied retrofits

Buildings full of people, where the disruptive work moves to nights and weekends and the cutover has to land before Monday morning.

Multi-site rollouts

Several locations built to one standard, each with its own walkthrough so no site gets scoped off an assumption from the last one.

Let your building be the next one

Tell us what you are working with and we will schedule a walkthrough. You get our read on what the building needs and a scope you can hold us to.