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NEIS Seeking Consensus Body Participants

NEIS Seeking Consensus Body Participants


NECA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to develop standards using a "canvass" (consensus body) process. The canvass process is used to approve the creation, revision, reaffirmation, or withdrawal an American National Standard (ANS).

Participation in the standards development process is open to all persons who are directly and materially affected by the proposed standard. Voting membership on the consensus body is not contingent upon NECA membership.

NECA 715, Standard for Installing Power Distribution Equipment in Data Centers

The National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) is seeking to develop NECA 715-202X: Standard for Installing Power Distribution Equipment in Data Centers as an American National Standard under the accredited Consensus Body method of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). On the Consensus Body method, organizations and individuals directly and materially interested, and competence in the subject covered by the scope of the standard are canvassed or polled by e-mail to gain consensus for approval of the standard.

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The scope of the proposed standard NECA 715-202X: Standard for Installing Power Distribution Equipment in Data Centers:
 
1.     Scope
 
This Standard describes the procedures for installing electrical power distribution system equipment typically used in a data center environment and is intended to describe what is meant by installing equipment in a professional and skillful manner in accordance with NEC Section 110.12 and in a neat and workmanlike manner in accordance with NECA 1.  
 
 
1.1       Products and Applications Included
 
This Standard applies to electrical conductors and equipment typically installed within the confines of a data center, which may include conductors and equipment from uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) to rack mounted PDUs, inclusively, including:
Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPSs).  
Transfer switches, including manual transfer switches (MTSs), automatic transfer switches (ATSs), and static transfer switches (STSs).  
Transformers.  
Switchboards and panelboards including remote power panels (RPPs).  
Substation type Power Distribution Units (PDUs) and rack mounted PDUs.  NOTE:  Substation type PDUs may consist of an STS or other primary switching device, transformer, and/or secondary distribution such as one or more panelboards, that are installed as an assembly.  
Conductors and wiring methods.  
Grounding and bonding.  
 
 
1.2       Products and Applications Excluded
 
This Standard does not apply to:
The design of electrical power distribution equipment or systems, including grounding, bonding, grounding electrode systems, overcurrent protection, or ground-fault protection of equipment (GFPE).  
Equipment upstream of UPSs, such as service entrance equipment, including transformers, switchgear, switchboards, or panelboards, generators or generation systems including generator paralleling systems, or circuits and conductors that supply UPSs or UPS bypass circuits.  
Selection, design, or configuration of UPSs or battery systems.  
Rack mounted equipment supplied from rack mounted PDUs, such as rack mounted ATSs, rack mounted UPSs, or rack mounted telecommunications or data processing equipment.  
Data and telecommunication systems, backbone cabling, fiber optics, or other information or data carrying systems.  
Collateral systems in data centers, such as lighting, fire alarm, fire suppression, EPO, HVAC, or environmental control systems.  
Energizing, startup, acceptance testing, commissioning, or maintenance of electrical power distribution equipment or systems.  See NECA 90 and NECA 91.  
 

Additionally, this Standard does not apply to hazardous (classified) locations or health care applications, such as life support or direct patient care.

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Participating in the NEIS Consensus Body


NEIS was created through cooperation from the entire electrical industry, and its success depends on continued involvement from the industry.

ANSI requires that American National Standards, like NEIS, be produced by consensus, which signifies the concurrence of more than a simple majority, but not necessarily unanimity. Consensus requires that all views and objections be considered, and that an effort be made toward their resolution.

For NEIS, consensus is achieved through a balloting process. NECA has at least one public review period for those who would like to participate in the standards development process and weren't able to participate in the Consensus Body balloting process.

View a complete description of the  ANSI balloting procedures for NEIS.