Containment
Containment and trade coordination for data cabling
Basket, tray and trunking interfaces — who owns pathways, how shared routes fail, and what to lock in the package.
Most programme pain on copper jobs is not RJ45s — it is pathways.
Basket vs trunking
Agree early: decorative trunking on occupied floors, basket/tray in risers and voids, fire-stopping ownership, and whether containment is in the cabling quote.
Shared pathways
When power, data and other services share routes, fill, segregation and installation sequence matter. Crushed basket and last-minute route changes destroy test margins.
Interface with M&E
Write the interface: who installs tray, who pulls data, who seals penetrations, who labels pathways. Ambiguity becomes a variation order.
Engage
Structured Cabling · category context: Cat6 vs Cat6A · PMs: tender checklist.