Send us the plan at whatever stage you are at and it comes back marked up — access point positions dimensioned off the nearest wall, cable routes coordinated with the other services, and a point schedule your MEP consultant can price. The markup is free and carries no obligation.
Send the plan at any stage and it comes back marked up: access point positions dimensioned off the nearest wall, cable routes coordinated with the slab and the other services, and a point schedule your MEP consultant can price. Nothing has to be chased into a finished wall later.
| Ref | Position |
|---|---|
| AP1 | Living, ceiling |
| AP2 | Bedroom 2, ceiling |
| AP3 | Bedroom 3, ceiling |
| R | Utility, wall |
A DWG, a PDF or a photo of the print, at whatever stage you are at. The markup costs you nothing and carries no obligation.
Access point positions dimensioned off the nearest wall, cable routes, conduit sizes and a point schedule your consultant can price.
We join the services coordination meeting if it helps, and stay reachable through construction so the detail survives to site.
Three things come back, in formats that drop into the set you already have rather than sitting alongside it as a PDF nobody opens.
Access point positions dimensioned off two walls, cable drops, and the route back to the utility. Drawn on its own layer so you can freeze it, print without it, or hand it straight to the electrical consultant.
Every point with a reference, a location and a mounting type, in a table your MEP consultant can price line by line without ringing us to ask what something means.
Conduit sizes, drop points, back box types and the clearances an access point needs above a false ceiling. The detail that decides whether this is buildable, written down before it reaches site.
Earlier is cheaper, but almost no stage is too late. What changes with each one is how much of the answer has to be a compromise.
Nothing to do yet. Worth knowing only that roughly one point per 950 sq ft is coming, and that it wants to sit near the middle of the plan rather than in a corner.
No input neededThe right moment. Positions can still move to suit the ceiling design, the utility cupboard can still grow by the 150 mm it needs, and nothing has been priced yet.
Best value · Free markupStill straightforward. The schedule goes into the electrical package as a priced line rather than a variation somebody has to justify later.
Goes into the packageWorkable. Routes have to follow the conduit already run, so a position may shift by a metre — usually without anybody noticing but us.
Some compromiseStill solvable, rarely elegant. False ceilings and skirting get us most of the way; the rest is a conversation about what the client will accept seeing.
Most expensiveAn access point is a 160 mm disc that needs a cable, a clear-ish line to the room below and somewhere to sit above the ceiling. Almost every problem it causes is one of these four, and all four are cheaper to solve on a drawing.
A ceiling-mounted point needs roughly 60 mm above the tile and a way to get a hand to it. Where the void is shallower than that, it becomes a wall mount — better decided now than by an electrician holding a drill.
Ceiling points land in the same 600 mm grid your downlights want. Coordinated early, the disc sits centred in a bay and reads as deliberate. Coordinated late, it sits 200 mm off a spotlight and reads as a mistake.
The ISP router, a small switch and the terminations need about 450 × 450 mm and a socket. It is almost never on the drawing, and it is almost always found at second fix by someone who then puts it on top of the washing machine.
A mirrored wardrobe wall or a full-height stone clad partition will stop a signal far more effectively than the brick beside it. Tell us where the finishes go and the layout accounts for them instead of fighting them.
The construction on your drawing sets the coverage before anyone has chosen hardware. These are measured values rather than estimates — NIST tested real specimens in an RF-isolated range, at the frequencies WiFi actually uses.
Around 54 dB through a 200 mm reinforced wall. For the band that clients prefer and that carries the speed they paid for, a shear wall between two rooms is a boundary, not an obstacle to be worked around.
The coating that earns the thermal performance is metallic, and it reflects RF for the same reason it reflects heat. Modelled as plain glass, the prediction error can exceed 29 dB — enough to put a point in the wrong room.
The same heavy concrete that costs about 23 dB at 2.4 GHz costs about 45 dB at 5 GHz. The band with the capacity is the band your structure blocks hardest.
| What the signal crosses | Lost at 5 GHz |
|---|---|
| Reinforced concrete, 200 mm | 54 dB |
| Brick-faced concrete | 40 dB |
| Concrete, 100 mm | 26 dB |
| Brick | 15 dB |
| Blockwork | 15 dB |
| Timber | 3 dB |
| Plain glass | almost none |
| Plasterboard partition | almost none |
Measured values from NIST NISTIR 6055. The 2.4 vs 5 GHz comparison is from iBwave’s material library; the Low-E figure is their published modelling error.
Practices and projects across Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Panvel — residential towers, individual homes and small commercial fit-outs. Send a drawing from further afield and we will tell you honestly whether we can be useful at that distance.
Share the floor plan — a DWG, a PDF or a photo of the print is enough — and we come back with access point positions, cable routes and a point count you can drop straight into your set. That part costs you nothing. We can run it as your subcontractor or deal with your client directly, whichever suits the project, and it is the same two of us on site every time.
Talk about a projectBrought in at drawing stage, the cabling is part of the build — no chasing, no surface trunking, no repeat visits.
One survey, one design, one install per unit. We re-test before handover and give you the readings in writing.
Your client hears about it from you. We turn up, do the work, and leave the site the way your finishing team left it.
You can draw this into the set yourself, and plenty of practices do. It is mostly coordination rather than engineering — but almost all of it has to be settled while the layout is still moving.
Where the fibre lands, how it crosses from the boundary to the building, and a room with the space, power, ventilation and access to hold an operator’s equipment. Straightforward at concept stage. Expensive once the core is set and the room has quietly become a store.
Coverage is a function of construction, not floor area. RCC shear walls, blockwork, full-height glazing and a metal-framed ceiling all behave differently. One point per floor, placed where there happened to be room, is the most common way this reaches the snag list.
Conduit routes, back-box positions, riser sleeves, pull-boxes at the bends, and the fire-stopping detail at every penetration. Drawn properly this is what makes a tender comparable; left vague, every contractor prices something different and the cheapest one wins.
Against the MEP services, the duct runs, the sprinkler heads, the lighting layout and the ceiling grid. The reflected ceiling plan is where this is either resolved on paper or discovered on site.
Cable category, testing standard, acceptance criteria, and a performance requirement expressed as something measurable. Without it you have no grounds to reject work that was, technically, installed.
Checking what the contractor proposes against what you drew, then attending when it is tested and actually reading the results. This is the part that quietly consumes fee long after the drawings are issued.
All of it is doable in-house. It is also several days of coordination per project, on a package that is usually worth less in fee than the time it takes to resolve.
Send the plan insteadNothing, and that is not a loss-leader with a catch in it. Most of the value to us is that the job arrives buildable. If the project then goes to another installer with our drawing, that is a normal outcome and we do not chase it.
A DWG is ideal because the markup comes back on its own layer. A PDF is fine. A phone photo of a print is genuinely fine for a first look — we will ask for something better before anything gets dimensioned.
Either, and it does not change the drawing. Some practices want us invisible and inside their fee; others prefer we contract to the client so the liability sits with us. Tell us which and we will hold that line for the whole project.
Yes, in person for Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Panvel, and on a call anywhere else. We would rather sit in one services meeting than answer the same clash by email for three weeks.
Then you may not need us. The distinction worth checking is whether those points were positioned for coverage or for symmetry — a data outlet in each bedroom is a different thing from an access point layout, and only one of them makes the WiFi work. Send it over and we will tell you honestly which one you have.
We stay in our lane: WiFi coverage, the structured cabling that feeds it, and the switch it plugs into. We are not AV, security or automation consultants, though we are used to leaving the right cable in the right place for whoever is.
Usually nobody's, which is why it surfaces on site. The electrical contractor prices power. The MEP set may carry data outlets, but a symbol without a mounting height, a containment route or a check against the wall construction is not a coverage design. Networking then falls through the gap until first fix, by which point the cheapest remaining answer is trunking on a finished wall. Much of what we do at drawing stage is simply making it somebody's scope.
Whatever stage the set is at. Tell us the project, the unit types and roughly when it goes to tender, and we will come back with positions, routes and a schedule. It costs nothing and there is nothing attached to it.
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