Fire stop requirements have become a source of concern lately among the stakeholders of electrical safety (among the electrical designers, contractors, and electrical safety regulators).
Some installers of electrical equipment have a bit of difficulty in differentiating ground fault circuit interrupters and ground-fault protection. And what is the difference between a typical overcurrent protective device and a ground-fault circuit interrupter?
Per the CE Code, a neutral of each separately derived ac system must be connected by the grounding conductor to the dedicated grounding electrode. True?
This feedback demonstrates that there are plenty of misconceptions among the electrical designers, contractors, and regulators on certain provisions of the legally adopted National Building Code of Canada (NBC) and the CE Code on electrical equipment.
The terms “suspended ceiling” and “plenum” are widely used in the Canadian Electrical Code but these two terms are not identical.
The CE Code means that the emergency generator must be installed in every high building as the required emergency power supply source for smoke control and smoke venting fans and dampers
This is the fourth of a series of five articles detailing significant changes approved by the Technical Committee for the 2018 Canadian Electrical Code Part I (CE Code).
Requirements for testing of integrated fire protection and life safety systems are provided in Part 3 and Part 9 of the National Building Code of Canada 2015 (NBC) in respect to newly constructed buildings.
The CE Code states, "Electrical equipment used in electrical installations within the jurisdiction of the inspection department shall be approved and shall be of a kind or type and rating approved for the specific purpose for which it is to be employed."