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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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Are You Sleeping? Can You Hear Me?

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Let’s look back on the topics my column has covered over the past year and test your understanding. My answers to these questions appear at the end of this column.


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Validating The Smart Grid

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While the smart grid has been the topic of much conversation lately, specifics on what this supposed technical marvel will do, cost or look like in actual utility installations have been notably lacking.

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‘Sell More and Bid Less’—An Idea Whose Time Has Come, Again!
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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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Superstorm Sandy Strikes New Jersey and New York
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What began as Hurricane Sandy affected at least 24 states from Florida to Maine with particularly severe damage in New Jersey and New York. Sandy was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record and the second-costliest U.S. hurricane in history, surpassed only by Katrina.

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PG&E Announces New Veterans-Only Job-Training Courses
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Pacific Gas and Electric Co. (PG&E) announced that it will offer two new training courses for recently discharged veterans, providing a career path into the energy industry through the utility’s PowerPathway program.

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A Primer for Paperless Estimating
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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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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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