Hot Line ... what can I say? Follow Shakespere and say 'second, shoot all the architects?
You have an 'electrical room' that, more often than not, also houses the telephone equipment, the alarm system, the sprinkler main, the video surveilance system, the main computer server,a transformer, the water heater, and some HVAC stuff. Nearly everything that's needed to make the building work ... and, if the trades do their jobs, it's almost never necessary to actually get in there to work on the stuff.
Add to this the complete disregard (by both the customer and the architect) for the needs of the maintenance staff. Why do you think we're always having to move the mop bucket, or find the top of the tranny has become a desk?
Which makes me wonder ... perhaps we need to re-think this idea of having everything in a central location. Instead of designing a bank of panels all neatly grouped together, maybe scatter them about, in the open, closer to the areas they actually serve. After all, I really can't think of any particular reason that the electrical HAS to be grouped together with the plumbing.
