Standing Agenda / Infotech 200

“The Special Surgical Auxiliary Hospital”1918 / John Hodgson Lobley

The 2020 National Electrical Code (NEC) contains significant revisions to Article 517 Healthcare Facilities.  Free access to this information is linked below:

2020 National Electrical Code

We drill into technical specifics and there is no better place to get a sample of the debate than in the transcripts of public input, committee discussion and balloting, public response and final balloting.  The links below provide the access point:

Public Input Report Code-Making Panel 15

Second Revisions Report Code-Making Panel 15

We typically do not duplicate the work of the 10’s of thousands of National Electrical Code instructors who will be fanning out across the nation to host training sessions for electrical professionals whose license requires mandatory continuing education.  That space has been a crowded space for decades.   Instead we co-host “transcript reading” sessions with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee to sort through specifics of the 2020 NEC and to develop some of the ideas that ran through 2020 proposals but did not make it to final ballot and which we are likely to see on the docket of the 2023 NEC revision.   That committee meets online 4 times monthly.  See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting

Issue: [16-102]

Category: Electrical, Healthcare

Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Robert G. Arno, Neal Dowling, Jim Harvey

4.7.2020