Temp Generator for TCO?

[rmerz01]

Has anyone had a situation where your project's permanent generator was arriving in a considerable amount of time AFTER the project is scheduled to finish? This generator being for the legally required and life safety loads. That's my situation and I'm trying to feel it out and anticipate the next steps as we're not going to get our 600KW generator until 6 months after final.
Our system has a docking station that can accept a temporary roll-up generator. My solution to our client is to bring in a temp gen for TCO, but I'm not sure of the legality of removing that generator after getting the TCO. The facility, which is an emergency services facility (combo police and fire station) will technically not have any back up power for legally required and life safety loads. No egress lighting, exits, etc. That sounds like a red flag to me in terms of life safety but I'm not sure how TCO's work in that regard if the owner of the building wanted to occupy it. My solution to that would be to not only have the temp gen in place, but to also run a temp ATS start cable out to the gen for autostart, so they won't need anyone running out to turn on the generator in the midst of an extended outage so that people can have egress lighting and such.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

[zbang]

TCO - Temp. certificate of occupancy?

If the occupancy permit requires a generator that's kind of the end of the discussion, and for something like a police/fire station removing it after inspection sounds like an incredibly bad idea (I edited out what I first wrote). As for "legality", talk to a lawyer ; the AHJ might have something to say about it, too.

IMHO, you have it right- temp generator, autostart from the ATS, weekly exercise, etc; just like a permanent generator.

 

[rc/retired]

TCO - Temp. certificate of occupancy?

Yes

 

[rc/retired]

Has anyone had a situation where your project's permanent generator was arriving in a considerable amount of time AFTER the project is scheduled to finish? This generator being for the legally required and life safety loads. That's my situation and I'm trying to feel it out and anticipate the next steps as we're not going to get our 600KW generator until 6 months after final.
Our system has a docking station that can accept a temporary roll-up generator. My solution to our client is to bring in a temp gen for TCO, but I'm not sure of the legality of removing that generator after getting the TCO. The facility, which is an emergency services facility (combo police and fire station) will technically not have any back up power for legally required and life safety loads. No egress lighting, exits, etc. That sounds like a red flag to me in terms of life safety but I'm not sure how TCO's work in that regard if the owner of the building wanted to occupy it. My solution to that would be to not only have the temp gen in place, but to also run a temp ATS start cable out to the gen for autostart, so they won't need anyone running out to turn on the generator in the midst of an extended outage so that people can have egress lighting and such.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

You need to check with your AHJ.
Unless something has changed since I retired, the building would not receive a TCO without the permanent generator.
Good luck,

Ron