Bus duct is more restrictive of the TI build out...
The Service is just inside the perimeter of the curtain wall. A direct rise vertically takes the bus duct right through the most valuable rental footage: the window zone.
Owners hate that.
Never seen that done, our electric rooms are located in the core or in some cases the buss duct will travel horizontally through a lower floor before going vertical.
No way do we use up window space with electric rooms.
Further, bus duct requires higher skill levels from the troops. Out my way the designs are dumbed down to our 'talent pool'.
Sorry to here that...time for some training.
Which also explains the pervasive use of MC. This selection is so automatic with some contractors that they ignore lower cost EMT runs.
MC is always cheaper than MC in an overall picture.
EMT beats MC in retrofits of places open for business since you can assemble it stick by stick. It also beats MC in dead straight runs with multiple round robins. Yet I've seen this ignored time and again.
I have been doing this work 20+ years and have no idea what you mean here.
Also bus duct is a little bit more of a lead time item.
Agreed, it is not on the shelf locally.
Not installing it makes all feeders pure bread and butter and no one loses their job.
This is an odd statement to me.
It is the customers responsibility to foot the bill for more labor hours just to 'keep the guys working'?
Bob
