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The Case of the Deadly Arc Flash

Jan 1, 2010 12:00 PM, By Benjamin D. Miller, P.E., Miller Engineering

How defective test equipment coupled with lack of training led to tragedy for electrical workers at a shopping mall...


Minority Report 

Jan 1, 2010, By Beck Ireland, Staff Writer

Update on whether or not certified small and disadvantaged businesses are getting their fair share of stimulus package funds...

Troubleshooting Building Control Systems 

Jan 1, 2010, By Jim Shields and Hilton Hammond, Fluke Corp., and Greg Jourdan, Wenatchee Valley College

Electrical service technicians today must understand the communications problems that crop up in multilayered building control systems...

10 Tips for Growing Your Electrical Business in Lean Times 

Jan 1, 2010, By David Brown and Sheila Burres, D. Brown Management

Marketing strategies for growing your electrical business during a recession...

The Case of the Deadly Arc Flash 

Jan 1, 2010, By Benjamin D. Miller, P.E., Miller Engineering

How defective test equipment coupled with lack of training led to tragedy for electrical workers at a shopping mall...

Lighting Upgrades and Power Quality Problems 

Dec 1, 2009, By Eric Witkowski, Manitoba Hydro

How to ensure total harmonic distortion (THD) doesn’t dramatically increase following a lighting retrofit...

Bootstrapping Your Way to Business Growth 

Dec 1, 2009, By Brad Dawson, LTV Dynamics

By reinvesting free cash flow back into the growth cycle of a business, bootstrapping helps contractors combat the recession...

Avoiding Contact with Energized Electrical Conductors 

Dec 1, 2009, By Dennis M. Gleason, CPE, PECO Energy

Being your own safety advocate might mean the difference from going home at the end of the day and becoming an injury or fatality statistic...

The Secret to Estimating Labor More Effectively 

Nov 1, 2009, By Linda Candels, Candels Consulting

Labor unit adjustment factors every electrical estimator should know about ...

Fending Off Schedule Acceleration 

Nov 1, 2009, By Bob Mitchell, Integrated Management Group LLC

Electrical contractors learn how to identify the warning signs of project distress before it’s too late...

The Case of Stray Voltage in a Lake 

Nov 1, 2009, By Donald R. Johnson, P.E., Johnson Engineering

Faulty concentric neutrals on high-voltage underground cables lead to one teenage swimmer’s drowning and two others’ brain injuries ...

Solving Problems after Energy Upgrades 

Nov 1, 2009, By Randy Barnett, Step1 energy Audit

Learning to troubleshoot and repair power quality problems in-house after an energy upgrade ...

Ten Tips for Increased Tax Savings 

Oct 1, 2009, By Mark Battersby, Freelance Writer

Practical planning strategies for electrical contractors who want to keep their tax bill at its legal minimum this year and every year...

How to Light Hazardous Environments 

Oct 1, 2009, By Steven L. Henry, EGS Electrical Group

Lighting fixtures play a critical role in the safe, efficient, and productive operation of any industrial facility or production process....

Customer Positioning Tips for Electrical Contractors 

Oct 1, 2009, By Dr. Perry Daneshgari and Heather Moore, MCA, Inc.

Customer positioning and control (CPAC) method helps electrical contractors examine the quality of production by identifying the demands placed on an organization’s resources relative to the value produced...

Keeping Track 

Oct 1, 2009, By Beck Ireland, Staff Writer

Electrical contractors do much more than track their fleets with the help of mobile resource management (MRM)...

Go Mobile with CMMS 

Sep 1, 2009, By Kris Bagadia, PEAK Industrial Solutions

One of the key factors in the success of any computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) implementation is the amount and quality of the data input....

Refrigeration Systems and the Electrician 

Sep 1, 2009, By David Herres, Master Electrician

One of the great inventions of our time in terms of its social impact and influence on the health care and food preservation industries refrigeration...

Learning the Limitations of Metal-Clad Enclosures 

Sep 1, 2009, By John J. Kolak, Praxis Corp.

There's a common misconception among many professionals in the electrical industry that can be prove to be deadly under certain circumstances some technicians,...

Extending UPS Operation 

Aug 1, 2009, By Henry Hu & Jeff Donato, Emerson Network Power

Cutting back on preventive maintenance procedures you’re your uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems during tough economic times can spell disaster down the line...

Survey Reveals Underuse of GPS Systems Capabilities 

Aug 1, 2009, 

The construction industry is not using GPS systems to their full potential, according to a recent study from the Aberdeen Group that says more widespread adoption could result in as much as a 21% decrease in operating costs...

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