Aske Estate Receives ict active Award

Lord Ronaldshay Receives the ict active Award for the Aske Estate.

Lord Ronaldshay was present on Wednesday 24th November to receive an ict active award on behalf of the Aske Estate from Steve Bacon, the Lead Assesor for the scheme.

The Aske Estate attained an award of Part-Fitted, Excellent reflecting the high standard of the refurbishment of the historic buildings for the implementation and operation of ICT facilities on site.

'Part-fitted' means that the office space available requires further fitting-out before it is ready to offer the full complement of active telephony and broadband services usually required by a modern business. For example, most part-fitted properties could need internal cabling or electricity points to be installed in the office space before ICT equipment can be used. In addition, tenants usually have to make their own arrangements for telephone and Internet services.

Unusually for a part-fitted property, the offices at the Aske Estate have already been fitted with either an underfloor distribution system, wall-mounted dado or floor-level trunking complete with data cabling and a high-speed leased line fibre optic broadband service, to offer a very good level of broadband service to current and future users. It also offers significant scope for expansion should higher bandwidth be needed.

This beautiful rural location is therefore an attractive proposition for those businesses looking for rural office accommodation, but worried about access to high-speed broadband services.

The site achieved an ict active award of Part-Fitted, Excellent to demonstrate the site's conformance with the national standard behind the ict active scheme and to show potential tenants that the property is capable of supporting modern ICT facilities necessary to operate a small business.