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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. 

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Multiemployer Pension Reform: 
Why It Matters To All Of Us

by
Dennis F. Quebe
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April 2013

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.

President's Desk, NECA
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Dirty Dancing

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Stephen Carr
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April 2013

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.

Estimating
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Why You Should Know Zhang Yue

by
Andrew McCoy
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April 2013

It was an online phenomenon that went viral.

Service/Maintenance, prefabrication
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Customers, Rewards And Image

by
Denise Norberg-Johnson
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April 2013

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

Financial, Business Management, Contractor Business Operations, Supervision

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Current Technology
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Chuck Ross
| February 2013
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In the late 1800s, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse faced off in what has been called the “War of the Currents,” with Edison trumpeting direct current (DC) for its efficiency and safety and Westinghouse backing Nikola Tesla’s alternating current (AC) for its usefulness in large distribution sys

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A New Way To Picture 
America’s Aging Assets

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Fred Sargent
| February 2013
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Try not to think of pink elephants. That silly proposition makes us chuckle when we hear it because we know that, as soon as someone says, “pink elephants,” we will unavoidably visualize pink elephants. We think in pictures. Hearing or reading words triggers mental images of what they mean.


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Constructing In PQ

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Richard P. Bingham
| January 2013
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When it comes to new construction of the electrical infrastructure within a facility, the National Electrical Code (NEC) is the most common source of rules and regulations with regard to what to do and how to do it.

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2013 Construction Outlook
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Jeff Gavin
| January 2013
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In 2012, you could have felt hopeful about the economy on any given day. Some days, you also could have felt the opposite. It was the year of the rocky recovery.

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Showstoppers 2012
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Jeff Griffin
| January 2013
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In October, 20 exhibitors at the 2012 NECA Show in Las Vegas received Showstopper awards. Winners were selected from 122 entries, all prominently displayed at the front of the exhibit floor.

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Cool Tools: Hammer Drills
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Jeff Griffin
| January 2013
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The handheld power hammer drill is a basic electrician’s tool that is two drills in one—a conventional drill for working in wood and soft materials and a hammer drill for drilling 3/16- to ¼-inch holes in masonry, cinder blocks, concrete, metal and other hard materials.

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New Jersey Sandy Restoration Largest in U.S. History
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Mike Breslin
| January 2013
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Superstorm Sandy, a post-tropical cyclone, closely followed by a wicked nor’easter, left more than 1.7 million Public Service Electric and Gas (PSE&G) customers without power. These outages represented two-thirds of New Jersey’s entire population.

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