01 / Environment · Corporate
Buildings that run the way operations want.
Building management, security, network and audio visual infrastructure for offices, towers and corporate workplaces across the UAE.
02 / One workplace, one system
BMS, building automation, fire infrastructure and access tied into one head-end. Enterprise-grade networking and unified Wi-Fi across every floor. Turnkey delivery for a full tower — or a single floor.
Corporate buyers evaluate the same short list: reliability, network performance, access management, scalability, documented change control, supportability and business continuity. We design and document to those criteria — one coordinated technology environment rather than a collection of separate systems.
One head-end, so BMS, fire and access appear on the same operator screen. Switching with segmentation, capacity headroom and accurate as-built drawings. And a clean handover: drawings, manuals, orientation and a support arrangement that continues after week two.
03 / The workplace stack
Six layers. One infrastructure.
- 01 /
Physical infrastructure
Containment, structured cabling, fibre backbone, risers and the equipment rooms everything terminates in.
- Racks
- Power
- Cooling
- 02 /
Network layer
Switching, routing and segmentation sized with capacity headroom rather than to the opening device count.
- Core
- Access
- VLANs
- 03 /
Wireless layer
Access-point density and placement designed against how the floors are actually occupied.
- Coverage
- Roaming
- Guest
- 04 /
Security and access
Cameras, recording, readers and door hardware interfaces running over the same infrastructure.
- CCTV
- Access
- Recording
- 05 /
Building systems
BMS and automation head-ends, with life-safety infrastructure and interfaces coordinated to a confirmed scope.
- HVAC
- Lighting
- Interfaces
- 06 /
Workplace experience
Meeting-room AV, video walls, telephony, intercom and paging — the layer people actually touch.
- AV
- Telephony
- Paging
Outcome /
One operating environment
Documented, segmented and supportable by the team that runs the building.
04 / Selected systems
What we install in a commercial project.
From a single office floor to a full tower delivered as one programme — a typical scope uses a subset of these.
- 01Structured CablingCAT6A / CAT7 copper and OM4 / OS2 fibre backbones, labelled, tested and documented end to end.
- 02Fibre ConnectivitySingle-mode and multi-mode fibre risers, campus links and OSP routes — spliced, tested and documented.
- 03Corporate NetworkingCisco-grade LAN, WAN, security and segmentation for offices and headquarters.
- 04High-Speed Data Networks10G / 25G / 40G LAN, WAN and datacentre fabrics — sized for what the building actually does.
- 05Server Room SetupsCompact server rooms for corporate floors, villas and outbuildings — quiet, cool and cleanly cabled.
- 06High-Speed Wi-FiUnified Wi-Fi 6 / 6E / 7 — surveyed, designed and tuned to the building it lives in.
- 07Seamless ConnectivityOne SSID, one identity, one experience — across floors, buildings and campuses.
- 08CCTV SurveillanceIP camera systems engineered for clarity, coverage and quiet day-to-day operation.
Also frequently specified: Access Control, Video Walls & Large-Format Displays, E-PBX Systems, Building Intercom & PA, Building Management Systems, Fire Alarm.
05 / The project team
Built around the project team.
Workplace projects rarely arrive from one direction. These are the roles we most often sit alongside, and what each of them needs the technology scope to do.
- Owners, IT and facilities teams
- Infrastructure you can actually run: documented networks with capacity headroom, segmentation you can reason about, access rights that can be changed without a site visit, and systems that scale as headcount and floor area change. Everything handed over with drawings, schedules and credentials.
- Procurement teams
- A clearly bounded technology scope with defined deliverables, interfaces and exclusions — so the package can be evaluated on what it includes rather than on what has been left ambiguous between trades.
- Architects and workplace designers
- Coordination on the things that show: ceiling and wall integration, meeting-room technology, display and speaker positions, access readers at entrances, and the equipment environments those systems need behind the scenes.
- IT consultants
- Structured cabling, wired and wireless architecture, rack and server-room layouts, and the dependencies between them documented against your design intent — including where our scope meets your equipment and applications.
- MEP, ELV and technology consultants
- Design coordination, scope definition, interface schedules and specification compliance, through testing, commissioning and the handover documentation set. Where you hold the design, we deliver to it and coordinate the interfaces with the other trades.
- Fit-out contractors and builders
- A defined specialist package that fits your programme — containment and first-fix in sequence, second-fix after finishes, commissioning windows agreed in advance, and one point of contact for the whole technology scope.
- Main and prime contractors
- Zentrum can be considered for appropriately defined ELV and integrated technology packages within larger contracted projects. We take responsibility for a bounded systems-integration scope, coordinate with the other packages, and deliver it with the testing, commissioning and documentation the wider contract requires.
When we come in /
- 01Early designInput on infrastructure, equipment environments and containment before the layout is fixed.
- 02Detailed designCoordination with the appointed IT, MEP or ELV consultant, and with the architect and fit-out team.
- 03Contractor selectionDiscussion of a bounded specialist technology package within a larger contracted project.
- 04Execution and fit-outDelivery sequenced against the construction or fit-out programme, including phased work in occupied buildings.
- 05Testing and commissioningSystem testing, integration checks and documented handover to the operations team.
- 06Existing systemsAssessment, upgrade or extension of infrastructure already in the building.
06 / Disciplines
The disciplines behind a workplace programme.
07 / Common questions
What corporate clients and project teams ask us.
At what stage should ELV and IT infrastructure be planned in an office fit-out?
As soon as the space plan is stable. Cabling routes, containment, rack and comms-room positions, power and cooling for equipment, and access-point and camera locations all depend on the layout — and all of them are cheap to place on a drawing and expensive to move once ceilings and partitions are closed. Waiting until fit-out is under way usually means compromised positions rather than impossible ones, but the compromises are permanent.
Can Zentrum coordinate with an appointed IT, MEP or ELV consultant?
Yes. Where a consultant holds the design, we deliver against their specification, work to their interface schedules, and provide the testing, commissioning and as-built documentation the design requires. Where no consultant is appointed, we can define the technology scope ourselves and set the same boundaries and documentation.
Can several technology disciplines be delivered as one coordinated scope?
That is the normal shape of our work. Cabling, networking, wireless, security, access, communication, audio visual and building systems share infrastructure and interfaces, so delivering them as one package removes the gaps that appear when each is procured separately — a single programme, one set of drawings, one commissioning sequence and one handover.
Can Zentrum work as a specialist package under a main contractor?
Yes. We work as a specialist technology and ELV integrator on appropriately defined subcontract packages, taking responsibility for the systems within that scope, coordinating with the other packages on site, and issuing the testing, commissioning and documentation required by the main contract.
Next step /
Bring us in early.
Planning a workplace, a fit-out or a full building — or looking for a specialist integrator for a defined ELV or systems package? Send us the scope and we will tell you how we would approach it.
For an occupied building, we also handle maintenance, remedial work and infrastructure upgrades.
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