Electical Contractor

Jennifer Leah Stong-Michas

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Codes & Standards

Contractors need to develop highly specialized knowledge Healthcare facilities present the potential for financial gain for properly qualified electrical contractors. These projects also present a downside of risk of increased liability due to the nature of the projects and potential damages.

The Network of Choice

Layered Hospital Security Has Room to Grow

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Systems

The wired home is more prevalent than ever Thanks to our technology-driven world, the American dream of home ownership has evolved into owning a “wired” home that allows for enhanced networking. Home networking has become a multimillion dollar industry.

Claire Swedberg

PSI Installs State-of-the-Art Systems

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Your Business

Hospital security is a multilayered issue with hospitals of varying sizes struggling with how to keep the facility safe from intruders, both human and bacterial, without hindering accessibility. Making hospitals both safe and accessible generally requires technology.

Darlene Bremer

Analog Addressable Fire Alarm Systems

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Your Business

In the fall of 2001, Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., decided to expand its Radiation Oncology Department in its Hayes Hall facility.

Wayne D. Moore

Keeping Integris Hospitals Secure and Healthy

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Systems

Is high-tech better? Fire alarm system technology seems to be developing faster each day. It wasn’t that many years ago when an electrician treated a fire alarm system just like any other electrical system he or she had to install.

Secure on All Fronts

April 2004

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Your Business

Hospitals must employ a variety of security measures Odds are that the recent upsurge in spending in the healthcare field will be a long-term condition that could provide a cure for the electrical contractor whose checking account definitely needs a “vitamin boost.” Hospital administrators and secu

April 2004

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Your Business

When checking into a hospital, foremost in any patient’s mind is his or her own personal health and well-being. Placing trust in the hands of medical professionals, we hope for successful treatments and speedy recovery.

Face-to-face Communication

Jennifer Leah Stong-Michas

| March 2004

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Systems

Videoconferencing allows visual contact without travel Who could have predicted that one day we could all instantly communicate no matter where we were, no matter what we were doing?

Abandoned Fire Alarm Cables, Conductor Derating and More

George W. Flach

| March 2004

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Systems

CODE CITATIONS Article 90 Introduction; Article 110 Requirements for Electrical Installations; Article 210 Branch Circuits; Article 220 Branch-Circuit, Feeder and Service Calculations; Article 250 Grounding; Article 300 Wiring Methods; Article 310 Conductors for General Wiring; Article 400 Flexible

Rosendin Delivers on Specification

Darlene Bremer

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Your Business

When the California Department of Education decided to build a new, state-of-the-art headquarters building in Sacramento, it issued a Request For Proposals (RFP), complete with an initial design.

Security Forecast

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Systems

Perhaps Homeland Security Defense initiatives haven’t been the windfall the security industry expected, but this market and other related low-voltage segments continue to grow. After Sept. 11, the phones wouldn’t stop ringing for many manufacturers.

Saved by the Bell

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Systems

Educational construction continues to lead the non-residential market in new construction spending.

Avoiding False Alarms

Wayne D. Moore

The ‘Other’ Campus Security

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Systems

Many electrical contractors will attest to the fact that fire alarm systems offer a nice addition to their primary electrical business. Most can also tell a horror story or two about the number of costly and unpaid service calls due to false alarms from fire alarm systems.

E-Rate Equals Affordable Communications

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Your Business

Ask Bob Lashaway at Montana State University about his greatest security concern on the Bozeman campus and he’ll tell you that it may be faculty and student negligence.

Jennifer Leah Stong-Michas

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Your Business

E-Rate is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program aimed at the telecommunications and technology industry. It is actually administered by the Schools and Libraries Division of the Universal Service Administration (www.sl.universalservice.org).

Distance Education

Back to Basics Makes Sense

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Systems

The education market has gone through many changes over the years. Advances in technology seem to have provided the biggest differences. Just think about it: computers are more commonplace than ever and many kids don’t even know what a typewriter is.

Richard P. Bingham

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Your Business

At a recent Technology Committee meeting for a local school district, there was considerable discussion about the lack of responsiveness in getting electrical infrastructure issues fixed.

Sooner or Later

Timothy R. Hughes

Quiet Hours and Smart Security

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Your Business

The threat of litigation on construction projects is real and constant. In the construction industry in general and electrical contracting in particular, litigation is always a possibility on every project.