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Cheshire building committee accepts conduit compromise after electrical installation error
Summary
After finding MC cable installed where rigid conduit was required, the Town of Cheshire building committee directed contractor O&G to install empty EMT raceways for future wiring and requested a formal credit and detailed plan; Ferguson offered an $80,000 credit if the alternate approach is accepted.
The Town of Cheshire Building Committee directed construction staff to pursue an alternate fix after project staff reported that much of the electrical “home-run” wiring on the second floor of the new North End (Barnum) Elementary School had been run using MC cable rather than the rigid conduit (EMT) specified in the contract and in the Connecticut School Building Standards.
Project staff told the committee that the condition was discovered during a September field review and further confirmed during a November walk-through. "This is a mistake," the project representative said, describing the discrepancy as a coordination and execution error involving the contractor and parts of the project team. He said the work is currently code-compliant but does not match the…
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