Shockedby277v
Senior Member
- Location
- Michigan
Does 250.68 C 2 mean tie wire from rebar to anchor bolts for steel eliminate the requirement for a ufer? Do you always need a ufer for your grounding system?
Ufer requirement
- Thread starter Shockedby277v
- Start date
- Location
- Illinois
- Occupation
- retired electrician
It means that if you connect a GEC to the steel, you have also made a connection to the concrete encased electrode.
Shockedby277v
Senior Member
- Location
- Michigan
So the need to run another GEC from a ufer to the grounding system isn’t needed IF it is connected like this AND steel is connected to the grounding system?
- Location
- Illinois
- Occupation
- retired electrician
Exactly
- Location
- Bremerton, Washington
If the rebar is present and meets the requirements for a CEE then it must be used. I have seen installations where concrete was chipped out to make the comnection
Shockedby277v
Senior Member
- Location
- Michigan
In your opinion then 250.68 C 2 doesn’t satisfy the ufer requirement? This article was brought up and haven’t heard it used before.