Electrical panel on emergency per floor?

[anbm]

For medical office building (occupancy class B), does anyone know any codes require to have emergency electrical panel per floor or can we share panels between floors?

(Note: electrical emergency panels shall be backup by building generator through ATSs).

 

[charlie b]

I know of no code requirement to have a panel of any kind on any given floor. I commonly use one emergency panel to serve two or three floors (i.e., put it on floor 2, and have it serve floors 1, 2, and 3). That works well because most of the time the only emergency loads are egress lights. That is a small load, and the branch circuits are not very long.

 

[anbm]

Texas healthcare department rule and some similar other states:

For healcare building (occupancy class I-2) requires critical and normal power panel can serves only load of floor where panel is located.

Life-safety panel can serves load up to three floors (the floor panel stays plus above, below floors).

 

[steve66]

Texas healthcare department rule and some similar other states:

For healcare building (occupancy class I-2) requires critical and normal power panel can serves only load of floor where panel is located.

Life-safety panel can serves load up to three floors (the floor panel stays plus above, below floors).

That's pretty similar to Illinois Dept. of Public Health. I don't think they want the staff to go searching for panels to reset a breaker.

I wonder if they realize nurses and other people shouldn't be just flipping tripped breakers back on anyway??