Yes it was a common method for these 60,000 to 100,000 sq ft stores. Now under the 2002 code we use MC, in exposed areas it is EMT.

Personally I never liked pulling NM through steel truss and I-beams, even though you could easily pull 5 or 6 home runs at a time with NM, we can not pull that many at a time with MC.


Bob Badger
Construction & Maintenance Electrician
Massachusetts