Planning Ahead and Laying Conduit

As we get ready to pour the floor of the activities center, we needed to plan ahead and think about where we might need to run wires around the building.  What if we needed to run a wire from the scorers table to control the scoreboard? What about running microphones? Where would we need internet connections?

The building committee brainstormed over all these questions with the builder and our audio/video contractor to develop a list of our needs.  Then we buried conduit (plastic pipes) throughout the site so when we need to run a wire somewhere, we can simply feed it through our buried pipes.  Once the cement sub-floor has been poured, these pipes will be hidden, except for small stubs emerging from the floor.  We may not even use some of the conduit we buried, but it's inexpensive insurance for some time in the future when we need to get a wire from one side of the building to the other.