INDUSTRY WATCH
12 World’s Largest Wind,
Energy-Storage Project
Proposed
14 Severed Cable Cuts off
Outer Banks Islands During
Height of Summer
16 Fossils Discovered at
Subway Construction Site
18 ACEEE Working on
Motor Label Program to
Fill Energy Ratings Void
20 Ultra-Low Energy
Performance Retrofits
Are Growing
22 California, Massachusetts
Top Performers in Clean Tech
25 Residential Energy Usage
Continues to Decline
CODE
32 CODE FAQS
Connector Query,
Healthcare Facility Fire
Protection and More
Jim Dollard
52 CODE APPLICATIONS
Magic Words
Mark C. Ode
58 CODE IN FOCUS
General Installation
Requirements, Part XXXII
Charles R. Miller
128 CODE COMMENTS
GFPE 101
Michael Johnston
INTEGRATED SYSTEMS
28 LIGHTING
HID to LED
Craig DiLouie
30 QUIZ
What Makes a Smart
City ‘Smart’?
Jim Hayes
46 FIBER OPTICS
Faster, Cheaper and Easier
Jim Hayes
68 TECHNOLOGY
Hitting It out of the Park
Jim Romeo
106 SECURITY
Move to Open
Interoperability
Deborah L. O’Mara
110 FIRE/LIFE SAFETY
Survivability Revisited
Wayne D. Moore
ON THE JOB
10 SAFETY
The End of the Road
Tom O’Connor
44 ESTIMATING
Do You Trust
the Drawings?
Stephen Carr
66 IDEAS THAT WORK
Getting Precise
and Using Foil
Edited by Anton
and Jesse Mikec
70 POWER QUALITY
Doing It Right the First Time
Richard Bingham
86 ARC FLASH SAFETY
Called ‘Informative’
on Purpose
Jim Phillips
92 LEGAL
Controlling the
Electronic Blizzard
Gerard W. Ittig
108 UTILITY BUSINESS
In the Crosshairs
Chuck Ross
112 RESIDENTIAL
Simple Fixes
120 YOUR BUSINESS
Consuming Smarter
Denise Norberg-Johnson
PRODUCTS
78 NEW PRODUCTS
COOL TOOLS
114 CUTTING ACCESSORIES
Jeff Griffin
CONTENTS
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