Office Update
Apr 1, 2006, By Ellen Parson, Managing Editor
After peaking at nearly 300 million square feet in 2000, the office construction market proceeded to take a serious nosedive over the next three years,...
Focus on Labor Tracking Software
Apr 1, 2006,
mJobTime 2005 mJobTime 2005 is a wireless time tracking system that automates time collection, tracking, and reporting functions. The software works on...
Sustainable Design for Electrical Engineers
Apr 1, 2006, Richard Simpkins
Find out what it takes to become a contributing partner in a successful LEED design project...
Tailgating on the Job?
Apr 1, 2006,
When you hear the word tailgate, visions of football titans and smoked barbecue may come to mind. But in the construction industry, a tailgate is synonymous...
New Concepts in Large AC Motor Protection
Mar 1, 2006, By Alexander Kusko, Sc.D., P.E., Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, and Jean Y. Ayoub, M.S.E.E.,
Thanks to ongoing innovations in technology, electrical engineers' approach to motor protection has changed over the years. The traditional strategy to...
Survey Benchmarks EC Salaries
Mar 1, 2006,
According to the 2005 Executive Compensation Report, conducted by Specialty Consultants (SCI), Pittsburgh, salaries for executives at electrical contracting...
K-12 Education Update
Mar 1, 2006, By Ellen Parson, Managing Editor
Driven by school-age population growth in the West and the South regions of the country, enrollment in K-12 institutions is expected to rise by nearly...
A Standard Divided
Mar 1, 2006, By Beck Finley, Staff Writer
Not without controversy, the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) officially published MasterFormat 2004 in August of that same year. The new standard...
Surety Bonds: The New Reality
Mar 1, 2006, By Tom Zind, Freelance Writer
To many electrical contractors, surety bonds and those who provide them are a necessary evil. That view may even have hardened a bit in recent years as...
Lodging Sector Construction Hits New High
Mar 1, 2006,
The hotel construction market recently reached its highest total since 2000, growing to 3,067 projects with 415,977 rooms, according to Lodging Econometrics'...
Loser-Pays Provisions Simplify Collections
Mar 1, 2006,
Most major contract documents in the construction industry do not contain provisions, revealed the American Subcontractors Association (ASA) in a recent...
The Lowdown on Low-Voltage Wiring
Mar 1, 2006, By Jaclyn Alcantara, Associate Editor
As a generation that has little or no memory of a time without PCs and MTV, young adults looking to buy their first home are likely to care more about...
