ASA Fights Bid Shopping, Denials of Delay Damages
Jul 1, 2001, By EC&M Staff
Alexandria, Va.-based American Subcontractors Association (ASA) has expressed support for a bill to prohibit bid shopping on construction contracts with...
News Briefs
Jul 1, 2001, By EC&M Staff
Breaking news from around the industry...
News Briefs
Jul 1, 2001, By EC&M Staff
Breaking news from around the industry...
News Briefs
Jul 1, 2001, By EC&M Staff
Breaking news from around the industry...
Fluke Networks to Acquire Testing Products Maker
Jul 1, 2001, By EC&M Staff
Fluke Networks Inc., Everett, Wash., recently signed an agreement to acquire Microtest Inc., Phoenix, a producer of test and connectivity products. Under...
Let's Learn Something This Time Around
Jul 1, 2001, By Michael Eby, Editor-in-Chief
It may be the year 2001, but lately I feel like I'm living in the 1970s. I haven't been wearing a mood ring or sporting a leisure suit recently, and I...
The 1930s (1930-1939)
Jun 1, 2001, By Ellen Parson, Senior Managing Editor
As swiftly as the Roaring Twenties brought good times, spending sprees, and business booms, the dawn of the 1930s ushered in desperate times, work shortages,...
The 1940s (1940-1949)
Jun 1, 2001, By Ellen Parson, Senior Managing Editor
When World War II began in 1939, devastation from the Great Depression began to recede, and the U.S. economy found new life. After the Japanese attack...
The 1950s (1950-1959)
Jun 1, 2001, By Ellen Parson, Senior Managing Editor
By the start of the 1950s, the Depression had long since ended. World War II was over. And after years of uncertainty, it seemed like happy days finally...
The 1960s (1960-1969)
Jun 1, 2001, By Ellen Parson, Senior Managing Editor
Like no decade before it, the 1960s left an unforgettable imprint on the 20th Century that would later be recognized as a turning point for change on...
The 1970s (1970-1979)
Jun 1, 2001, By Ellen Parson, Senior Managing Editor
Although the drama of the 1960s was a hard act to follow, the 1970s made its own unique mark on the electrical industry. Plagued by gasoline shortages,...
The 1980s (1980-1989)
Jun 1, 2001, By Ellen Parson, Senior Managing Editor
When the first personal computer (featuring an 8-bit Intel 8088 processor, 16 KB of memory, and a floppy-disk drive) came on the scene in 1981, it suddenly...
The 1990s (1991-1999)
Jun 1, 2001, By Ellen Parson, Senior Managing Editor
Ask anyone in the electrical industry what they remember most about the 1990s, and you'll almost always get the same answer: deregulation. At the start...
The 2000s (2000-2001)
Jun 1, 2001, By Ellen Parson, Senior Managing Editor
After the dreaded Y2K computer bug came and went without a glitch, professionals in the electric and power industries faced a slew of unanswered questions...
The Age of Electrical Enlightenment
Jun 1, 2001, By John DeDad, Editorial Director
The pioneering work of our electrical forefathers helped shape the electrical industry into what it is today....
