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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. 

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.

Copper remains a primary carrier for integrated building systems, but fiber optic cabling is assuming an increasingly important role in data, telephone, access controls, security cameras, fire and security alarms, sensors, and other signaling-dependent systems.


As recent storms have proven, extreme weather conditions threaten lives, disrupt the economy, and devastate electric generation, transmission and distribution systems, often resulting in very long power outages.

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.

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Spinoff Manufacturer Provides Structured Connectivity Training
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At Avaya, Inc., a Basking Ridge, N.J., company spun off from Lucent Technologies earlier this year, Authorized Business Partners (ABP) are fully supported with structured cabling training from the company’s SYSTIMAX Group.

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Alphabet Soup in Purchasing Materials
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While construction abbreviations can be confusing, some merchandising terms are frightfully alien.

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The U.C.C. and the Electrical Contractor: How the Law Fills in Purchase Order Gaps
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Each state has its own laws governing commercial transactions. This diversity has created problems among the states.

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Getting Started with an OTDR
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In the past, whenever I trained a group of technicians about fiber testing, I would ask if anyone knew what OTDR stood for.

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Nordx/CDT Offers IBDN Training
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In classrooms throughout North America, designers, installers, and electricians are getting extensive structured premise cabling training from Nordx/CDT, Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Canada.

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Powering Industry: How contractors keep their edge as technology advances Adapting to Technology
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Heavy industry hasn’t disappeared; rather, it has been adapted and modernized to make products as diverse as chemicals, steel, airplanes, and beer more efficient and economical than ever.

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Grounding and Testing of Rooftop Electrical Equipment
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Valuable equipment installed on rooftops requires careful and specific grounding in order to be protected and to function as intended.

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