No electrical contractor wants to snap a wire. It can be a
safety issue to the worker, you lose material, you lose productivity. At the
same time, you will be hard pressed to find someone who is not looking to
minimize pull locations. Moving the crew, moving the equipment with each
additional pull point adds a very real cost to the number of locations you’ll
be pulling at. Recently, we’re hearing of a growing trend of building owners
requiring documentation and planning of wire pulls. One major upside to this
trend is that the jobs that are pushing for documentation are the bigger, more
power intensive jobs, the kind of jobs that will likely make use of BIM.
Here at GTP we’re hoping to provide the tools to the
electrical contractor working in Revit to optimize the installation while
providing the data required for documentation and improving wire take-off. Our
new wire pull calculator provides automatic wire pull calculations as you
coordinate your drawing and recognizes both tension and side wall bearing
pressure failures. Wire data is imported automatically from the feeder schedule so there will be no redundant input of the data. The pull calculator ensures that your design is with the
configurable requirements you set for your project and allows you to optimize
the location of pull points by providing the information so you can minimize
pull locations while still meeting safety and job spec requirements.
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