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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. 

More than 174,000 workers in the electrical contracting industry—including the most-skilled electricians, linemen and technicians in the world—are covered by pension plans that are financed through contributions from them and their multiple employers, without costing taxpayers one cent.

When I started to write this article, it came out as a rant, which seemed unprofessional. Assuming I should be professional, I pared the rant down to a summary of the way I feel about the current state of engineering practices.

It was an online phenomenon that went viral.

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

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Storm, Power Outages and Heat Wave Torment Midwest and Mid-Atlantic States
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As U.S. utilities made projections for the summer months and predicted there would be enough capacity to meet demand with no outages, Mother Nature seemed to have other plans.

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Before You Flip the Switch
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Part of every significant construction project and major renovation should be the commissioning of the electrical systems (or recommissioning for renovations) along with the heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC); mechanical; fire alarm; and other systems in the facility.

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Pike Research Predicts Surging Electrical Industry
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It’s no secret that, with deeper systems integration, new technologies, and a focus on efficient and alternative energies, the electrical industry is growing and changing in ways that were hard to predict even just a decade ago.

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Making Service Part of the Package
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Industrial and commercial facilities strive to service existing low-voltage distribution equipment in an effort to postpone costly replacement. As part of that effort, a maintenance contract can be critical to a facility’s life-extension program.

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Editors' Pick
Parsons Technologies: A Case Study
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Parsons Technologies, which provides low-voltage services, is a division of Parsons Electric LLC, Minneapolis. A little more than a decade ago, Parsons Electric did very little low-voltage work, and it delegated what low-voltage work it secured to subcontractors.

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Maximize Service and Maintenance Revenue
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Nearly all low-voltage contractors provide cable testing services. If you are one of them, are you getting everything out of the process that you can?

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PTD: Putting Accident Prevention First
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“Prevention through Design” (PTD), also known as “Safety through Design,” increasingly has become the focus of attention since the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and some powerful allies in government, industry and academia launched the National PTD Initiative to highli

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