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Practicing Proactive Project Management 

Jan 1, 2006, By Ed Englert, Industrial Electrical Engineers, Inc.

The best project managers (PMs) in the business are certainly a multi-talented bunch, possessing many of the same inherent personality traits that make...

Covering Your Bases 

Jan 1, 2006, 

On Nov. 9, the U.S. Department of Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commissions' recommendations took effect after Congress allowed them to pass into...

Single-Family Housing Update 

Jan 1, 2006, By Ellen Parson, Managing Editor

Looking back, there's no question that the residential market has had one heck of a run the past decade each year defying predictions from scores of construction...

Electrical Taping Skills: A Lost Art? 

Jan 1, 2006, By Bob Goodman and Rodney G. Brown, 3M

With all of the new products and electrical insulation kits currently on the market, the use of conventional electrical tapes has gone down. As a result,...

Why Own When You Can Rent? 

Jan 1, 2006, By Beck Finley, Staff Writer

Up until 1993, equipment ownership exceeded rental by a large margin 95% to 5%, respectively, according to industry analyst Daniel Kaplan, president of...

Price-Gouging Accusations Create a Storm After the Storm 

Jan 1, 2006, 

Metairie, La.-based electrical contractor Jude Raspino was completely surprised when a Times Picayune reporter called for his reaction to accusations...

Thinking Outside the House 

Dec 1, 2005, By Beck Finley, Staff Writer

By August 2005, single- and multi-family housing comprised 56% of all construction spending for a total of $404 billion. This record year, tracked by...

Short Circuits 

Dec 1, 2005, 

Captain Ernie One day my boss and a fellow electrician, Captain Ernie, set out to replace a 20-hp motor on the roof of a round cannery building. The pair...

Getting the Most from Your Middleman 

Dec 1, 2005, 

Is your distributor meeting your needs? In a recent study commissioned by the National Association of Electrical Distributors (NAED) Education & Research...

Beyond the 2005 NEC Changes: Art. 250 Grounding and Bonding 

Dec 1, 2005, By Steven Owen, National Code Seminars

The grounding and bonding requirements of the NEC might just be the least understood and most incorrectly interpreted section of the Code. In fact, some...

Rise of Residential Surge Protection 

Dec 1, 2005, By Jill Vaughan-Birch, Siemens Energy and Automation

The typical home sees a 100V surge hourly and a 1000V surge monthly. However, most residential customers don't know how to protect their expensive entertainment...

Fearless Forecasters 

Dec 1, 2005, By Michael Eby, Editor-in-Chief

Forecasting can be a tough business. Come to think of it, millions of people rely on a forecaster's predictions to do everything from getting dressed...

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