Elevated slabs in a Hospital

[ron.pomeroy@pomeroyelectr]

Is there anything in the NEC or Florida Building code that prohibits installation of EMT, PVC or RMC in an elevated deck slab other than prohibited by NEC 517.13
We have an engineer telling us that we cannot put any conduit in an elevated deck slab of a hospital and that the conduits have to be installed in the ceilings.

 

[augie47]

Don't know of anything in the NEC and have no knowledge of FL Code but we have had jobs in TN where the installs were prohibited by the engineer of record and the building inspector due to weakening of the slab.

 

[Fulthrotl]

Is there anything in the NEC or Florida Building code that prohibits installation of EMT, PVC or RMC in an elevated deck slab other than prohibited by NEC 517.13
We have an engineer telling us that we cannot put any conduit in an elevated deck slab of a hospital and that the conduits have to be installed in the ceilings.

what engineer is telling you this? structural would be the only one
who'd really have a say so in the matter.

i've had inspectors who wouldn't let you run parallel above a bond beam,
and nobody really wants you to run in a bond beam. i've run 3/4" smurf
so thickly on a deck you can't really see the plywood falsework under it
in some places, and nobody has said no.

in the huntington beach hilton, which is not a large hotel, the fourth floor
was the spreader deck for the tower. it has 30,000' of smurf in the pour.
that was in 1989. it hasn't fallen down yet.

 

[peter d]

what engineer is telling you this? structural would be the only one
who'd really have a say so in the matter.

i've had inspectors who wouldn't let you run parallel above a bond beam,
and nobody really wants you to run in a bond beam. i've run 3/4" smurf
so thickly on a deck you can't really see the plywood falsework under it
in some places, and nobody has said no.

in the huntington beach hilton, which is not a large hotel, the fourth floor
was the spreader deck for the tower. it has 30,000' of smurf in the pour.
that was in 1989. it hasn't fallen down yet.

And you're the single greatest electrician who has ever lived too. :roll:

 

[peter d]

I assume this is poured in place construction? We don't have that around here, it's all steel frame.

 

[augie47]

it hasn't fallen down yet. Keyword

 

[Fulthrotl]

And you're the single greatest electrician who has ever lived too. :roll:

why no, peter, but someday i hope to be good enough to be worthy of
carrying your tool buckie.

 

[peter d]

why no, peter, but someday i hope to be good enough to be worthy of
carrying your tool buckie.

It's a worthy goal, unattainable to the majority.