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Training Day: Lighting Solutions
by
Susan Bloom
| November 2012
| under
  • Lighting

With lighting and communications technology evolving rapidly, lighting manufacturers are under pressure to determine how to best reach out to and train busy electrical contractors (ECs) on new and existing products.

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Head in the Cloud: Construction Management Software
by
Darlene Bremer
| November 2012
| under
  • Your Business

Are you still using spreadsheets and file folders filled with project documents to manage projects and track the incredible volume of details that make up a single job?

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Editors' Pick
Tool Trends 2012
by
Jeff Griffin
| November 2012
| under
  • Your Business

Serious concerns may remain about the U.S. economy and how economies and events in Europe, the Middle East and Asia affect Wall Street and American business. However, electrical and data communications toolmakers seem positively bullish.

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Editors' Pick
In the Lab and Beyond
by
Jeff Gavin
| October 2012
| under
  • Your Business

It is often said there is nothing new under the sun. There’s truth in that statement, but it ignores the fortuitous mistake or “Edisonian” moment. Such game-changers are often the result of exciting work being done in labs and promising technology picked up by enterprising startup companies.

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Renewable Generation Continues to Grow
by
Rick Laezman
| October 2012
| under
  • Green Building

As we enter the final month of the presidential election campaign, the political rhetoric remains heated. Among the many issues to be debated, renewable energies and the federal policies that support them will no doubt feature prominently.

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Nothing Is Perfect
by
Craig DiLouie
| September 2012
| under
  • Lighting

Is it possible that some T5 lighting fixtures are perfectly efficient? One might get that idea based on some efficiency ratings of 98–100 percent, although it might not seem possible. Such a rating must be a mistake, right? But it’s not.

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Design and Specify the Project
by
Thomas E. Glavinich
| September 2012
| under
  • Green Building

Once the owner has secured funding for an energy services project, the next step is installation design.

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Editors' Pick
Mobile Solutions Boost Productivity
by
Darlene Bremer
| September 2012
| under
  • Your Business

Service work provides a vital revenue stream for electrical contractors.

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The Game Has Changed
by
Jennifer Leah Stong-Michas
| September 2012
| under
  • Your Business

The role of an estimator has evolved, yet it remains rooted in the principles that defined it. A 41-year estimating veteran helps illustrate the means by which estimating has shifted and how the measure of the estimator’s skills plays a key role.

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Watching a Building Grow
July 2008
| under
  • Miscellaneous

According to Construction News, when Parkway Properties of Jackson, Miss., and builder Harrell Contracting Group (HCG) began building The Pinnacle at Jackson Place in downtown Jackson, Miss., they decided they wanted to install a construction camera to track and record construction on the nine-story

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Bridgeport Found in Contempt in On-going Legal Battle With Arlington
Southwire Circuit Wire Management System Eliminates Wire Spool Hassles
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