As the economy continues to find its bearings after a long and painful pandemic, positive signs are emerging from the construction sector, which added more jobs in July than in the previous month and continues on a steady upward trend.
In its August 2022 Job Openings ad Labor Turnover Summary, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reports that the
The City of Chicago has signed a $422.2 million agreement with electricity supplier Constellation NewEnergy Inc. to have all city amenities sourced by renewable energy by 2025.
In collaboration with the city, Swift Current Energy is currently developing the new solar generation installation that will eventually be used to power Chicago’s airports, government buildings, streetlights and more. According to Illinois
On Sep. 29, 2022, at 1:00 pm Eastern, ELECTRICAL CONTRACTOR will hold a free webinar, “Hi-Visibility Protective Clothing: Be Safe, Be Seen.” This webinar is sponsored by GlenGuard.
Be Safe. Be Seen.
Join NECA Safety’s Wes Wheeler and Mike Starner as they discuss protective clothing requirements for hi-visibility garments, especially in an FR or arc-rated environment.
Wes Wheeler, executive
Santon Electric Co. Inc. is situated on a main thoroughfare near three Youngstown, Ohio, area hospitals, where it’s common for ambulances, fire engines and police cars to speed by with sirens blaring. When the pandemic hit, the sounds took on new meaning for Dan Santon, who
founded the family business in 1975.
Several of Santon’s grandchildren and others in his
Girl Scouts in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area can get a taste of what it’s like to be an electrical worker at Power Girls Camp—with the help of NECA and IBEW volunteers.
Each July, the NECA Minneapolis and St. Paul chapters, along with the LMCCs of IBEW Locals 110, 292 and 343, sponsor Electrical Day for the Girl Scouts
The connector is one of the most important components in the development of fiber optics. Connectors are necessary to patch fibers to create a link and connect fibers to equipment. Fiber has been mostly the same single-mode fiber from 40 years ago, splicing is almost all fusion splicing developed around the same time and the connectors we use today were
