VA Hospital Essential Electrical System

[mshields]

A colleague of mine is doing work at a VA hospital built in 2003. He's noticed that they have a single ATS that goes to a DP which in turn feeds a Critical branch panel and a Life Safety branch panel. Clearly this violates the NEC and although I wasn't doing hospital work at that time, I don't think this was permissible in the 2002 NEC. Assuming you agree with that, is anyone familiar with a military standard that permits this.

It's so blatent, my assumption is that they knew what they were doing.

Thanks,

Mike

 

[north star]

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mshields,

The military [ aka - the DoD ] does not have any standard that would

allow this type of electrical gaff......They also do not have enough

qualified personnel to inspect every aspect of a project, even the

critical parts.......IMO, the contractor shaved themselves some profit

in to their pockets by not installing the correct number of ATS's &

circuits.

All of the various branches of the U.S. Armed Forces have

contractors perfoming a lot of construction work, worldwide......People

might be amazed at how the U. S. taxpayer is not getting what they

are paying for.

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[codeworks]

how could anybody not be amazed. when the military was paying 57.00 for toilet seats 30 years, if no one caught on then, they never will. it's like trying tio say the president "runs the country", maybe in the comics