Dr. Steve Walker (HSE) - Chair, EU AORD Working Group
Dr. John O'Hagan (HPA)
Dr. Neil Haigh (NWDA)

EN 50174-1 AND EN 50174-2: THE NEXT GENERATION
Re-defining installation planning and practices for the next ten years

Seminar by
The Cabling Partnership

26th June 2008
Thomson Room,
IET, London

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When EN 50174-1 and EN 50174-2 were published in 2001, they were the first Europe-wide installation standards for the installation of information technology cabling. They both contained flaws - as do the first editions of most standards. Some of these flaws were obvious and further clarifications were required as BSI updated its existing telecommunications cabling installation standard, BS 6701, in 2004. Subsequently, the structure of BS 6701:2004 with its clear definition of roles and responsibilities became the foundation of the second editions of EN 50174-1 and EN 50174-2.

For the last three years work has been going on to revise the two standards in order to deliver the same statements of roles and responsibilities, correct the earlier flaws and add value to the requirements. This became vital once the new EN 50173 series of standards made the application of the EN 50174 series mandatory.

All that work has now been completed and the final “voting” drafts are to be circulated in Q3. These documents are technically stable and are hugely significant for the following reasons - BS 6701 will have to be revised, and yet again simplified, to provide a correct reference to them; Installer Approval schemes such as that operated by the FIA will have to be updated and suppliers of installation accessories (such as trunking, poles, traywork etc.) will be need to understand the changes in order to provide correct instructions for the use of their products.