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In Atlanta, an electrical problem in a "Buss Duct" has caused the Sam Nunn Atlanta Federal Center to be closed for at least a week. 5,000 federal employees work at the center.
While many might view this as another example of The Infrastructure Crisis in the USA, it may also be another example of mismanagement at the General Service Administration (GSA), landlord for the complex.
The GSA has had many scandals and has been the subject of several Congressional Hearings, including an August 1, 2012 hearing titled "GSA: A Review of Agency Mismanagement and Wasteful Spending - Part 2". That hearing followed an $823,000 GSA employee conference in Las Vegas and a one-day-long $250,000 GSA employee conference in Crystal City, Virginia.
The closed Atlanta complex is named for Samuel Augustus "Sam" Nunn, Jr., who served for 24 years as a United States Senator from Georgia and whose daughter is the current Democratic Party nominee for a Georgia Senate seat.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 28 2014, @11:26PM
> Too bad (s)he didn't catch on that it's "bus duct" and not "buss duct" while at the other site. :)
Buss duct is correct. [ccmillwright.com]
(Score: 2) by mrider on Tuesday July 29 2014, @02:05AM
Apparently the people that manufacture "Bus Duct" [eaton.com] disagree with the people that install it.
Doctor: "Do you hear voices?"
Me: "Only when my bluetooth is charged."
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday July 29 2014, @12:00PM
That's just illiteracy on the part of a contractor who should know better, or far more likely, just a typo. Doesn't mean very much.
Does your computer have a PCI Buss or a PCI Bus? Its exactly the same situation.
In the history of engineering I've never seen a Buss only Bus. power distribution bus, ISA bus, bus and tag IBM connectors, unibus and qbus, etc. A bus is a topology so it doesn't matter much if its power or signal, or even fluid (although they tend to call those manifolds just to confuse things), all that matters is how its wired up.
One odd exception I've seen in engineering is a compressed air bus in a factory tends to get weird names, air system, stuff like that.