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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. 

When marketing energy services, the electrical contractor usually focuses on customers with existing facilities that can benefit from reducing energy use and improving operational efficiency.

Hole saws technically aren’t saws. They are cutting accessories used with power drills to make clean, round holes in a variety of materials, including wood, steel, aluminum, plastic and fiberglass.


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Every month, Jack Pullizzi picks the top four Ideas That Work submitted by you, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR readers.

The volume of energy consumed by buildings and the importance of energy efficiency in reducing that consumption are both now well-established elements of today’s green power movement. At the point where the two converge, building commissioning services are about to take a spin.

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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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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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Taking Advantage of the Wireless Market
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In the United States, cellular service providers are hurrying to build communications towers to supply these Personal Communications Services (PCSs), and construction is expected to continue through the early part of the next century, at the very least.

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