Electrical room used as office!!!!

[cowboyjwc]

I used to have an office in an electrical room. I can't remember when it changed, but I thought the wording used to be ".....rooms or areas shall not be used for any other purpose", but it could have just been one of those urban code legends. We used to get in trouble with the FD for storing ladders in electrical closets around the plant, but space is a little tighter in those.

 

[brian john]

I have seen a few offices in electric rooms but the number one is as a storage room and public schools are the biggest offenders.

 

[kwired]

I have seen a few offices in electric rooms but the number one is as a storage room and public schools are the biggest offenders.

And churches, office buildings, retail stores, restaurants. Shops always end up with a workbench in front of a panelboard.

 

[ggunn]

I have seen a few offices in electric rooms but the number one is as a storage room and public schools are the biggest offenders.

I'm hip. I designed ~2MW of PV for 11 buildings in an ISD, and some of the electrical rooms I saw were doubling as storage with clearance violations galore, but by far the worst offenders I have seen were restaurants.

 

[Hendrix]

Looking for codes to help justify to a state run facility why they can't use an electrical room(room has multiple transformers and panels)as an office and have an employee working in there on a daily basis. So far I have come up with these codes from the 2017 NEC.

110.26(A)(4) Limited Access
Table 110.26(A)(1) Working Space
110.26(B) Clear Spaces
110.26(E) Dedicated Equipment Space


Can you think of any others?

I have seen "electric rooms" used for many other things.