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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

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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

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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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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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A Primer for Paperless Estimating
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Stephen Carr
| December 2012
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While researching for last month’s article, I was quite surprised to find many contractors and estimators who did not understand the basic concepts of paperless estimating.

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Developing Additive Construction
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Andrew McCoy
| December 2012
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There’s an old joke about Michelangelo in which he explains how he was able to create his enormous 6-ton, 17-foot-high sculpture of the young, biblical hero David: Michelangelo shrugs his shoulders and confesses, “I just chipped away everything that did not look like David.”

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ROI 2012
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Denise Norberg-Johnson
| December 2012
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This month, with the end of the Mayan calendar, humanity will experience a “shift” and the rise in our vibrational energy will allow us to realize untapped abilities. However you interpret this idea, you already know that you have to change your way of doing business.

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Editors' Pick
Dive Right In
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William Atkinson
| December 2012
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While some contractors start out doing traditional work and then expand into low-voltage, others actually begin in low-voltage work and stick with it. Advent Systems Advent Systems, Elmhurst, Ill., employs more than 100 people in Chicago, Dallas, and Little Rock, Ark.

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‘Sell More and Bid Less’—An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Again!
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Dennis F. Quebe
| December 2012
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We’re rapidly coming to the close of another year. I hope this one was better for you than the last and that the next will be better still. But, before we let go of 2012, I also hope you’ll indulge me for a little personal reflection. This was my first year as NECA’s president.

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