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  • A Comparison of Operational Costs of Union vs. Non-Union Electrical Contractors

    A Comparison of Operational Costs of Union vs. Non-Union Electrical Contractors

    This 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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  • Best Practices: Prefabrication for Electrical Contractors

    Best Practices: Prefabrication for Electrical Contractors

    For electrical contractors, there are still opportunities to achieve some or all of the benefits of prefabrication.

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  • Estimating With and Pricing of Prefabrication

    Estimating With and Pricing of Prefabrication

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  • Exploring the Opportunities for Applying Lean Principles to Electrical Prefabrication

    Exploring the Opportunities for Applying Lean Principles to Electrical Prefabrication

    Electrical prefabrication is the practice of fabricating electrical assemblies in a prefabrication shop, then delivering the complete or semi-complete assemblies to the construction jobsite where they are to be installed.

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  • Industrialization of Electrical Contracting: Prefabrication and Supply Chain

    Industrialization of Electrical Contracting: Prefabrication and Supply Chain

    This report presents the findings of a one-year study funded by ELECTRI International to investigate the determinants and best practices of electrical contracting industrialization.

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  • Measuring Productivity and the Impact of Prefabrication on Productivity

    Measuring Productivity and the Impact of Prefabrication on Productivity

    Field and office productivity and the use of prefabrication in the Electrical Contracting industry are intertwined.  This project explored the impact and use of prefabrication within Lean Construction and BIM and VDC.  The focus was to untangle and objectively characterize the relationship between productivity

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