Susan Bloom

The shortage of skilled tradespeople has been felt by contractors and customers and well-documented by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. But thanks to its newly constructed, state-of-the-art training facility in Indianola...

According to an article in Network World, Wi-Fi is “indispensable” for personal and professional connectivity in today’s fast-paced society and represents the heartbeat and central technology of the information age. Perhaps...

While electrical contracting firms regularly invest a great deal of time, effort and resources in enhancing employees’ physical safety on the job, securing their employees’ psychological safety in the workplace is equally...

Currently representing some 275 of golf’s greatest players, the PGA Tour has been the world’s premier membership organization for touring professional golfers since 1968. The 2021–22 PGA Tour schedule features 47 FedExCup...

An electrical contractor Headquartered in Libertyville, Ill., since 1952 (and in existence since 1932), Aldridge Electric Inc. addresses complex and challenging projects in the transportation, power, utility and industrial...

According to the ELECTRI International report, “Pandemics and Construction Productivity: Quantifying the Impact,” the COVID-19 pandemic is estimated to have reduced productivity in the construction sector by some 20%, based...

S upporting the Portland, Ore., metropolitan area with bus, light rail and commuter rail transit service since 1969, the TriMet transit system has been a mainstay in the community for more than half a century. Transporting up...

On Aug. 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida bore down on Louisiana with intense Category 4 strength, officially becoming the second-most damaging hurricane to make landfall in Louisiana—coincidentally, 16 years to the day after the area...

Extreme weather events are occurring more frequently than ever. We have experienced it personally, learned about it in the media, and it is confirmed by a range of meteorological experts, including those at the National...

Did you know? According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ “National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries in 2019” (prepandemic data): More than 5,300 fatal occupational injuries occurred in 2019, the largest annual...

It’s no news that electrical contracting firms across the country have been struggling with skilled labor shortages for some years—a condition that’s been highlighted and exacerbated by the pandemic. But electrical...

5%–10% of all electricians in America are women, and roughly 10% of electrical contracting firms are woman-owned—seemingly minuscule numbers in the grand scheme of the nation’s 700,000 electricians and 70,000 electrical...