Hollywood, Calif., is the original movie-making mecca. Sunshine-filled days established it as a place to make films year-round. What better setting to build a museum celebrating the industry? It didn’t happen fast, but it...
The holidays wouldn’t be quite as magical without decorations and glimmering lights. The Madison, Wis., “Holiday Fantasy in Lights” light show has been making the most wonderful time of year a reality since 1988. A joint...
One of the nation’s oldest medical schools has settled into a cutting-edge facility built to keep pace with its rapidly growing population. The University at Buffalo’s (UB) new Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical...
Las Vegas is a one-of-a-kind city set in the Southwestern desert and surrounded by open land. A new stadium for the Las Vegas Raiders will fill up some of that space, as will Amazon’s Tropical Distribution Center. The city of...
Mojave Electric in Las Vegas was selected as the electrical contractor on one of the most impressive and successful recent projects to be built in its home town. T-Mobile Arena is home to the Vegas Golden Knights, the NHL...
Big conventions are getting bigger, and demand is building in Las Vegas. The Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) is undergoing an expansion and renovation that will increase its size by more than a million square feet and...
Serving as a new place for college freshmen to live and connect with one another, Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Gladding Residence Center (GRC) brings state-of-the-art lighting and amenities to its growing student...
Rosendin Electric Inc. is playing a key role in transforming a 20th-century office building into North America’s first Whittle School and Studio campus. The campus, located on approximately 13 wooded acres in Northwest...
Almost 70 years after it first opened, the Times Theatre in Seaside, Ore., has gained a new life with its Art-Deco-style movie theater and a more 21st-century enterprise, a brewery and restaurant. Renovation of the Times...
When the Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight Center airline terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport opened in 1962—designed by Eero Saarinen with a gull-wing structure to echo flight—it captured the heart of the city. As...
This year, St. Louis Cardinal baseball fans and players will experience something new at Busch Stadium, especially during night games. In January, electricians from St. Louis-based Sachs Electric Co. began the process of...
In the world of college athletics, having state-of-the-art facilities is crucial. At Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, local contractor Mid-City Electric Co. helped to make sure the advanced systems in the university’s...
Sometimes, the most rewarding jobs do much more than add to a company’s bottom line. A team of contractors recently demonstrated this by donating their time, money and services to the construction of a new Boys & Girls Club...
Sonoma State University’s state-of-the-art music complex is the result of a decade-long construction project that turned what could have been a basic concert hall into a facility with some of the best acoustics a venue can...
Napa Valley is world-famous for its vineyards, fine wines, tasting rooms and restaurants for those who seek a distinct experience. Such companies have a unique set of requirements for electrical installations, especially...
Fueled by dropping prices and better storage capacity, the rate of solar installations is either holding steady or growing in multiple sectors across the United States. In the first quarter of 2018, the U.S. market installed...
The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the fourth-busiest airport in the world and the second-busiest in the United States. It served more than 86 million passengers in 2017 alone. It started in 1929 as a single...
If utility lines serve as the lifeblood to electrical systems, stations that feed those lines are the heart, so upgrading those stations to meet growing, changing demands is critical. However, only a limited number of...
Late one Friday night in May 2016, a massive electrical fire consumed the majority of Wirco Alloy Engineering and Casting Foundry (Wirco-AECCO) in Champaign, Ill. The fire, sparked by a shorted-out fan, quickly ignited the...
In 2012, as most voters focused on the U.S. presidential race, Coloradans and Washingtonians also cast ballots to legalize recreational use of marijuana. It was the first state to do so. In the years since, Alaska, California...
