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x COMPLETE ERCES HANDBOOK17 PHYSICAL FACILITIES AND RF SURVEYS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303 17.1 The Pre-Design Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 17.2 Occupied Buildings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 304 17.3 The RF Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 17.4 The Physical Facility Survey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309 17.5 Primary BDA Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 17.6 Assess Staging Areas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 17.7 Distribution Antenna Systems. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 17.8 Penetrations Required and Permitting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312 17.9 Rooftop Donor Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31417.10 Considerations for Special Facility Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31617.11 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31818 THE DESIGN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .321 18.1 Project Stakeholders. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 18.2 Starting a Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324 18.3 Designing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 18.4 Stages of the Design Process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 18.5 Using a Link Budget to Estimate Antenna Radius . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 18.6 Product Selection Criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 18.7 Starting the Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334 18.8 Fine-Tuning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 18.9 Metrics to be Tuned to Match Real-World Conditions . . . . . . . . . . 34118.10 Propagation Types and Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34118.11 Design Document Aesthetics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34218.12 Constructing a Link Budget. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34418.13 Constructing a Bill of Materials. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34518.14 Constructing a Project Data Submittal Package . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34618.15 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34719 INITIAL PROJECT DOCUMENTATION AND SUBMITTALS . . . . . . . . . .349 19.1 Pre-Installation Design Submittals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349 19.2 Requirement Documents from the AHJ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352 19.3 Floorplans for the Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 19.3 RF Design Documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 19.4 Submittals for AHJ Design Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 19.5 Submittals for FCC License Holder Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357 19.7 Submittals for Building Engineer (New Construction) . . . . . . . . . . 357