High-Rise Buildings - Nortel Meridian Companion Reference Manual

Page 58 of 102 Planning complex sites

High-rise buildings

Left-right-s
553-3601-106 Standard 2.00 September 1996
• Plan atriums to their full height.
• Do not plan an atrium floor by floor but as one full size room.
• Place cell centers within an atrium only when they are intended to cover
the atrium.
• Do not put cell centers in an atrium if they are intended to serve adjacent
areas. To serve adjacent areas put the cell centers in these areas.
• If cell centers in adjacent dense areas serve one floor of an atrium, check
the coverage of the cell on all of the floors that meet with the atrium.
• If the atrium is large enough (more than one third the size of the building
or more than one cell in size), consider planning the atrium first, as you
would plan outdoor coverage.
Figure 25 : Covering an atrium
This section describes the steps in planning a building from the top floor down.
When planning multiple adjacent floors in a high-rise building, consider the
radio signals passing through the adjacent floors above and below.
kip
The left-right-skip technique keeps the cell centers from being stacked on top
of each other. A cell center has coverage on its own floor as well as on the