Grouch1980
Senior Member
- Location
- New York, NY
Hello all again..
So i'm dealing with a 'structure'... it's a large electrical room, located remotely from other buildings on the site... all buildings and this electrical room are under the same ownership / management... inside the electrical room is a couple of service switchboards. One of the service switchboards has an 800 amp service switch... 3 conduits go from the switch, across the campus (run mostly underground.. the underground is back-of-house hallways, offices, etc.), and then the conduits terminate in an 800 amp switch in a building about 500 hundred feet away. we need to re-route a portion of this feeder to accommodate new construction going on. We're looking at cutting a portion of the feeder, rerouting it, and will provide a new splice box where we connect the new portion to where the existing feeder was cut.
My question is, does the NEC allow for splicing on a feeder that goes from one building (or structure in this case) to another building? I can't find anything in the NEC that prohibits splicing. If prohibited, we would have to pull a new feeder along the entire run, which would be expensive.
EDIT: I'm working off of the 2008 NEC, and i'm looking at article 225, part II.
Thanks!
So i'm dealing with a 'structure'... it's a large electrical room, located remotely from other buildings on the site... all buildings and this electrical room are under the same ownership / management... inside the electrical room is a couple of service switchboards. One of the service switchboards has an 800 amp service switch... 3 conduits go from the switch, across the campus (run mostly underground.. the underground is back-of-house hallways, offices, etc.), and then the conduits terminate in an 800 amp switch in a building about 500 hundred feet away. we need to re-route a portion of this feeder to accommodate new construction going on. We're looking at cutting a portion of the feeder, rerouting it, and will provide a new splice box where we connect the new portion to where the existing feeder was cut.
My question is, does the NEC allow for splicing on a feeder that goes from one building (or structure in this case) to another building? I can't find anything in the NEC that prohibits splicing. If prohibited, we would have to pull a new feeder along the entire run, which would be expensive.
EDIT: I'm working off of the 2008 NEC, and i'm looking at article 225, part II.
Thanks!
