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Articles in this section are intended to help electrical contractors grow and improve their businesses, from financial and legal advice to creating a service and maintenance department. You’ll find articles on estimating projects and more below. 

The past two columns have covered issues related to your most important asset (and the most difficult one to measure): your employees.

Trucks. Whether two or three for a small firm, or a fleet for a large company, electrical contractors can’t conduct business without them.

The first step for an electrical contractor that is considering entering or expanding its presence in the energy services market is to identify the target customers.

Variables affecting electric power quality haven’t changed significantly over the years, but the technological advances of electrical and electronic equipment make the equipment much more vulnerable to power quality events than in the past.

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You may already work with building information modeling (BIM). Perhaps you’ve built a team proficient in this technology or hope to in the near future. At the very least, you suspect one day a project will come your way that will require BIM.

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With their vast capabilities, emerging building information modeling (BIM) technologies continue to challenge and transform the construction industry.

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