Strange Bus Plug Locations
Two of the strangest locations we have seen with bus duct and bus plugs were in former manufacturing facilities that had been converted to very nice office spaces. One facility converted a building to their executive offices. Very fancy with lots of wood, glass and dramatic lighting. Had plush carpeting everywhere and actually very nice wall paintings and art. You would never guess the six feet above the ceiling was just jam packed with extremely old building infrastructure. Old and new heating ducts, sprinkler system, communication wires, conduits, a mass of abandoned pipes and cables, abandoned light fixtures, old dirty wood structure supporting an old wood roof, and a complete bus duct distribution system chuck full of old and obsolete bus plugs and just a few new bus plugs. There were two totally different worlds separated by fancy ceiling tile. It was like standing in 2010 and looking up into 1940.
Another facility was set up the same way, but this facility was only about 25 years old. The most dramatic feature of this facility was that the space above the office ceiling was about 20 feet to the roof. When you looked above the ceiling tile, you found a massive open area. The bus duct in this area was about midway between the roof and the office ceiling tile. From one vantage point, you could just about see the entire bus duct system and all the bus plugs. In addition there were no really old bus plugs. An eerie feature was all the threaded rod hanging from the roof supports down to the ceiling below. It was a massive lost space hidden above a normal office environment.
These were two strange places for bus duct and bus plugs, which are usually found in exposed manufacturing or commercial buildings.