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2023–2024 NECA STUDENT CHAPTER: Standard Operating Procedures & Best Practices
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2024-2025 NECA Student Chapter Toolkit
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A 21st Century Action Plan for Electrical Contractors and Their Workforce
Read moreElectrical contractors rely on a highly skilled and motivated workforce to maintain a competitive advantage and meet market demands. Having a full understanding of workforce issues and a grasp of the future marketplace is central to successful business planning.
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A CMMC Overview
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A Comparison of Operational Costs of Union vs. Non-Union Electrical Contractors
Read moreThis study was commissioned to investigate the main differences between unionized electrical contractors (ECs) and open-shop contractors, as well as to identify the main cost drivers and how they differ between the two. Throughout this study, we determine the impact of various cost drivers on union contractors.
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A Guide for Entering the IBS Market
Read moreThe integrated building systems (IBS) market is the future of the electrical contracting industry and will provide growth opportunities and enhanced profit potential for the electrical contracting firm.
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A GUIDE TO 360-PHOTO PROJECT DOCUMENTATION
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A Human Resource Management Primer for Company Leaders
Read moreThis primer by Dr. John E. Schaufelberger collects and integrates some best practices into a resource that would allow the company leaders to quickly identify strategies for success when selecting an approach that responds to the requirements of their employees and organization.
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A Human Resource Management Primer for Supervisors
Read moreOver the lifetime of a company, its success or failure will in large part be determined by the caliber of the employees that the company is able to develop. A company’s supervisors greatly influence employees’ perceptions and their satisfaction with the company.
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A Research Study to Investigate the Value-Transfer of Subcontractor Procurement
Read moreA study of the impact of owner-supplied or GC-supplied material and equipment.
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A Strategy for Improving the Electrical Construction Industry
Read moreThe current relationships among the profit pools of the electrical contracting industry (ECI)—architect, general contractor, electrical contractor, supplier, manufacturer—have an antagonistic nature.
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A Survey of Performance Evaluations in the Electrical Construction Industry
Read moreWhen the subject of improving performance and productivity is examined, it is important to know what tasks workers are doing and how well the workers are doing them. This report examines industry practices concerning job performance evaluations.
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Achieving Greater Customer Satisfaction through Labor-Management Partnership
Read moreMarket share for unionized contractors has declined over the last 25 years. To regain it, organized labor must partner with contractors to address customer needs. This project designs a cooperative program to create a labor-management partnership.
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Addressing Inequitable Payment Practices
Read moreMore contractors go bankrupt due to cash flow than because of profitability. EC contractors have little leverage to change owner and GC behavior on payment.
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Addressing the Opioid Crisis
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Agile Procurement and its Role in Adding Value
Read moreThe thesis for the research is that partnering and planning can build profitable relationships throughout the electrical construction industry. The goal of agile procurement is to lower costs by reducing job site material handling and other waste rather than focusing upon reducing the direct cost of materials. Agile procurement adds value by engaging all supply chain members in jointly managing the flow of material to create greater efficiency of operations.