This year’s NECA convention is going to be a little different than usual. Come October, you can sit in your home office or on your couch, a snack or cup...

As senior employees and managers approach retirement age, they could potentially take their “back in the day …” experience and skills with them as they leave. This naturally puts pressure...

At the end of many corporate financial statements, there is a phrase that reads something to the effect that “past performance is no guarantee of future results.” This seems like...

Valued at some $170 billion annually and employing more than 650,000 workers across 70,000 electrical contracting firms of all sizes nationwide (pre-coronavirus), America’s electrical contracting industry is essential and sizable...

According to the Energy Storage Association (ESA), it is possible to have 100 gigawatts of new energy storage deployed in the United States by the end of the decade. The...

The slow contraction of the nation’s coal industry has become a barometer for the growth of renewables and the fight against climate change. According to recent figures, that measure has...

I often get questions regarding detector placement in difficult areas, and most of the time the answer lies in the Annex A to NFPA 72 of the National Fire Alarm...

Two recent press releases from the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), one from August 17 and the other from August 18, see positive trends for homebuilding strength. “In a...

According to the latest report from Dodge Data & Analytics, total construction fell 7% from June to July to a seasonally-adjusted rate of $631.6 billion. However, the only real loss...

Contractors providing video surveillance, networking or telecommunications products and services to the federal government will have fewer equipment options as of September 30, when implementation rules are slated to go...