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Project Management

 
Supply-chain Partnership is Not Single-source Purchasing
March 2001
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The supply-chain partnership (SCP)––a preferred relationship between suppliers and purchasers of industrial materials and components––is not a new phenomenon. The automotive and retail industries, among many others, have been using SCP for decades.

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Crunch Time for Royal Electric at the Port Columbus International Airport
March 2001
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Greg and Susan Ernst run Royal Electric as co-presidents today. They gained direct knowledge of the intensive, snowballing effects of job compression through their experience at the Port Columbus International Airport.

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Testing and Maintaining Ground Fault Protection
March 2001
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Distribution system capacity continues to increase in commercial, industrial, and institutional facilities. Arcing ground faults can seriously damage distribution equipment, causing fires, which damage facilities and endanger personnel. They also cause extended downtime during system repair.

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Servicing Emergency and Standby Power Systems
February 2001
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Emergency and standby power systems provide electric power to critical loads in commercial, industrial, and institutional buildings.

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Active Enterprises Inc. Delivers Backup for Giant Utility
February 2001
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Goliath-like utility company ComEdison recently turned to a David of the electrical contracting industry, Active Enterprises Inc., for the Wood Dale, Ill.-based company’s specialized talents in installing backup generators for computer-based facilities.

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Service: Key to Becoming Your Customers' Preferred Supplier
January 2001
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Customers continue to downsize and outsource services to specialists who can perform these services more efficiently than their own employees.

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Changing the Leopard’s Spots
January 2001
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Suggesting that contractors look beyond traditional project work to more long-term maintenance opportunities will come as a culture shock to some. Suggesting that this is a straightforward way to make extra money will be more pleasing to the ear.

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Firm Never Loses Sight of Smaller Projects While Tackling Big Ones
December 2000
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Is Mike McPhee missing the forest for the trees?

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Powering Industry: How contractors keep their edge as technology advances Adapting to Technology
October 2000
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Heavy industry hasn’t disappeared; rather, it has been adapted and modernized to make products as diverse as chemicals, steel, airplanes, and beer more efficient and economical than ever.

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Taking Advantage of the Wireless Market
October 2000
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In the United States, cellular service providers are hurrying to build communications towers to supply these Personal Communications Services (PCSs), and construction is expected to continue through the early part of the next century, at the very least.

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Evergreen Brings Microsoft Co-founders’ Music Passion to Public
September 2000
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Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has always had a passion for Jimi Hendrix’s music.

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Miami Firm Ready to Go the Long Distance
September 2000
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As the gateway to the Caribbean and South America, Miami is a city filled with endless opportunities to have fun in the sun. But when it comes to being the gateway of modern communications systems, Miami and Tri-City Electric Co. Inc. are all business. Phone home

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Choosing a Pricing Strategy For Your VDV Services
September 2000
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Successful electrical contracting firms consistently earn higher-than-normal profit margins in the voice/data/video (VDV) market by providing VDV solutions, not just by selling time and material with a markup. Expanding a business paradigm goes beyond expanding its scope of services.

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VDV Support Selection: No Longer an Either/Or Choice
September 2000
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For voice/data/video (VDV) cabling installations, as with power installations, everyone—including electrical contractor and client—benefits from support systems that are easily installed overhead in a suspended ceiling or under a raised floor and readily accept cable initially and during later addit

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Chicago-area Company Uses Size and Speed to Win Big Design/Build Projects
August 2000
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A combination of size and speed are foundations for great professional athletes. The same physical attributes help propel electrical contractors into the upper echelons of their profession.

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(Almost) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS
August 2000
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In this PDF file, (Almost) Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS, Joe Salimando tells you just that.

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TAM Electric Lights Memphis Skyline with AutoZone Park Project
July 2000
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Before the last week of October 1999 most people in Memphis, Tenn., were oblivious to the state-of-the-art baseball facility going up downtown. The new home of St. Louis Cardinals' AAA-affiliate, the Memphis Redbirds, was just another downtown project that would cause traffic jams, they thought.

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The 2000 Profile of the Electrical Contractor
June 2000
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In this PDF file, The 2000 Profile of the Electrical Contractor, John McKenzie tells you how "A new contractor evolves to meet the challenges of the new millennium".

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The 2000 Profile of the Electrical Contractor
June 2000
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The 2000 Profile confirmed what you already know--1999 was a good year to be an electrical contractor!

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Feds Enlist ERMCO's Telecom Expertise for Federal Center Project
May 2000
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Indianapolis is not just the home of one of the world's most famous speedways. The city also lays claim to the third largest federal government facility in the country. ERMCO Electrical Contractors, Indianapolis, Ind., has joined the team that is giving the Major General Emmett J.

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