Power Poles in Parking Garage

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Hey guys simple request for information. I have a project where we are putting an island in the middle of a parking garage for a card reader and gate arm. I currently call out for the contractor to trench cut the floor to the nearest column to install the conduit. From there install a floor box, run conduit up the column and then along the ceiling to the electrical room. I was wondering if there was a product similar to a power pole you would find in an office space where I can avoid having to trench cut? Need something more industrial. Thinking like a 4" square tube run vertical, just don't now how we can get this to terminate in a ceiling mounted J-box cleanly?

Thanks for the help.
 
Sean.Day72 said:
Hey guys simple request for information. I have a project where we are putting an island in the middle of a parking garage for a card reader and gate arm. I currently call out for the contractor to trench cut the floor to the nearest column to install the conduit. From there install a floor box, run conduit up the column and then along the ceiling to the electrical room. I was wondering if there was a product similar to a power pole you would find in an office space where I can avoid having to trench cut? Need something more industrial. Thinking like a 4" square tube run vertical, just don't now how we can get this to terminate in a ceiling mounted J-box cleanly?

Thanks for the help.
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If you want to run 4" square tubing up to the ceiling [for support and protection] that's fine. Run some seal tight down the tubing for power and terminate that at the junction box.
 
growler said:
If you want to run 4" square tubing up to the ceiling [for support and protection] that's fine. Run some seal tight down the tubing for power and terminate that at the junction box.
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Can go with pretty heavy tubing if you feel the need because of potential abuse. If dry location doesn't need to be seal tight, could be FMC, MC cables, etc. and even could put communications or other items within the tube if necessary.
 
If you can get power overhead why trench at all? Your making an island, pour what ever you need to facilitate power, control, communication, conduits dropping from above.
 
It more of for aesthetic reasons. We'll be punching a hole in the existing electrical room wall, running overheard approx. 200' using existing conduit racks to the island. Then running down the nearest structural column and then saw cutting to the island (about 10' from column to island). I guess using something like 2" RGS conduit would work too in lieu of square tube. Just think a vertical pipe going up 12' to the ceiling in the middle of a large parking area would like silly? no? Would need bollards around it too.
 
Sean.Day72 said:
It more of for aesthetic reasons. We'll be punching a hole in the existing electrical room wall, running overheard approx. 200' using existing conduit racks to the island. Then running down the nearest structural column and then saw cutting to the island (about 10' from column to island). I guess using something like 2" RGS conduit would work too in lieu of square tube. Just think a vertical pipe going up 12' to the ceiling in the middle of a large parking area would like silly? no? Would need bollards around it too.
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We feed machines overhead all the time, why do you find this a problem?

It looks fine.
 
Sean.Day72 said:
Just think a vertical pipe going up 12' to the ceiling in the middle of a large parking area would like silly? no? Would need bollards around it too.
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IMHO if you _just_ had a pipe in the middle of a large parking area, it would look kind of silly. Sort of like the lamp post in the middle of the driveway.

But I presume that you don't have just the pipe. You have the island, the card reader, and the gate arm. IMHO a pipe to the equipment would make perfect sense to people, and as something expected it wouldn't look silly.

-Jon
 
Sean.Day72 said:
It more of for aesthetic reasons. We'll be punching a hole in the existing electrical room wall, running overheard approx. 200' using existing conduit racks to the island. Then running down the nearest structural column and then saw cutting to the island (about 10' from column to island). I guess using something like 2" RGS conduit would work too in lieu of square tube. Just think a vertical pipe going up 12' to the ceiling in the middle of a large parking area would like silly? no? Would need bollards around it too.
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Won't there bollards already in place to protect the gate and card reader? Just put your drop in the protected zone.
 
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