hbendillo
Senior Member
- Location
- South carolina
I am an engineer and recently performed an field inspection on a project for which our AE company was the design firm. It is a health care occupancy and in particular an Critical Care ward. I was not a part of the original design team.
Value engineering was done on the project to use MC cable. I do not have many projects in which I have been involved where MC cable was used and none in a Health Care Occupancy. Among other issues I am having with the Contractor is using MC cable to support other MC cable in a bundle. The Contractor claims that one can support up to two MC cables to another MC cable that is supported and fastened according to code requirements. In other words one MC cable fastened and supported and the other two tie-wrapped to it. I cannot find where that is explicitly allowed. I am thinking he may be confusing the derating requirements of bundled MC cables.
Can anybody guide me to the requirements for this condition?
Value engineering was done on the project to use MC cable. I do not have many projects in which I have been involved where MC cable was used and none in a Health Care Occupancy. Among other issues I am having with the Contractor is using MC cable to support other MC cable in a bundle. The Contractor claims that one can support up to two MC cables to another MC cable that is supported and fastened according to code requirements. In other words one MC cable fastened and supported and the other two tie-wrapped to it. I cannot find where that is explicitly allowed. I am thinking he may be confusing the derating requirements of bundled MC cables.
Can anybody guide me to the requirements for this condition?