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Academy papers and presentations pertaining to relevant topics in the industry are presented by Fellows at each Annual Meeting.
Amping Up Skills: NECA’s Educational Pathways for Estimators and Admin Personnel - An Overview of NECA-Offered Estimating Courses (PDF)
Jim Johannemann ('15)
Drafting the Top-Ranked Talent (PDF)
Brad Giles ('11)
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Growth Mindset in Today's Electrical Contractor
Sonja Rheaume ('16)
It Could Happen to Anyone: Malware, Ransomware Attacks and Protecting Your Company (PDF)
Kent Baker ('92)
Participation Breeds Participation: A Route to Greater Profits (PDF)
Jerry Hayes ('12)
Forty Years an ESOP (PDF)
Brad Weir ('13)
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Our Opportunities and Challenges During a Technological Growth Spurt and What We Can Do About It
Skip Perley ('06)
Construction Mis-Management: Can the Electrical Contractor Survive?
Franklin P. Holleran ('15)
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Fifty Years of the Academy of Electrical Contracting
Paper by J. Michael Thompson (’92)
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Partnerships and Joint Ventures: A Business Strategy for Success; History of Partnering
Paper by Darrell Gossett ('13)
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The Evolution of Technology in the Electrical Construction Industry
Paper by Michael B. Joyce ('14)
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Net Zero and Beyond: Utilizing Your Training Center as a Business Development Tool
Paper By James M. Willson (’14)
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Cultivating Safety through Community: Training and Best Practices of the Electrical Transmission and Distribution Partnership
Wilson M. Yancey, Jr. (’15)
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American Healthcare Needs a Doctor . . . STAT!
Paper by Lawrence J. Bradley (’02)
Retainage: Rethinking Our Financial Structure
Paper by Craig Clark (’14)
Welcome Gentlemen...and Lady: A Look at Our Industry Through a Woman's Eyes
Paper by Gloria Ashford ('07)
What Do We Really Sell in Today's Business World?
Paper by Greg E. Stewart ('08)
Contractor Startups: Training for a Fast-Changing World
Paper by Robert Daoust ('01)
An Uncommonly Harmonious Relationship International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local Union 48 And Oregon-Columbia Chapter, NECA
Paper by Timothy J. Gauthier ('98)
Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line In Electrical Service Work
Paper by Frederic B. Sargent ('81)
Seeing the Forest through the Trees By using ELECTRI International Information
Paper by Russell J. Alessi ('03)
A New Paradigm for Electrical Contractors Using Electrical Installation Shop Drawings For Jobsite Labor Savings
Paper by Lanny Thomas ('09)
Peer Group 2: Building Relationships to Build the Industry
Paper by John Negro ('99), Craig Martin ('09) and Bill Powell ('09)
NECA Chapter Executive from a Contractor’s Perspective
Paper by Don Campbell ('02)
International Study Mission: A World of Electrical Contracting
Paper by Max N. Landon ('98)
Experiences with Engineers Acting as Contractors or Design-Builders
Paper by Larry Cogburn ('08)
The Transition from Electrician to Electrical Contractor
Richard E. Manrod ('95)
Patience + Presence + Partnerships = Payback
Thomas Curran ('06)
Contractor and Our Training Program: Investing in Education is Expensive; Not Investing in Education is More Expensive
Anthony L. Shreve, Fellow
The National Electric Code Process: The Importance of National Electrical Contractor Association Members Participation in the Code-Making Process
Charlie Trout, Fellow
Planning, Organizing and Developing a Successful Local Government Affairs Program in San Diego
Ronald A. Cooper, Fellow
Things That Are Different After Three Score Years
Charles P. "Jed" Wilson, Fellow
2D Autocad for the Electrical Contractor
Richard E. Manrod, Fellow
Networking for Joint Ventures
Ben Cook, Fellow
Cross-Border Joint Venture Initiative
Andrés Quintana, Fellow
Past, Present, and Future of PLAs
Don Campbell, Fellow
Making Horizontal Integration Work For Electrical Contractors
Frank Russell, Fellow
There is No Neutral Zone: Contractors Have to Be Involved in the Political Process
Jerrold H. Nixon, Fellow
NECA/IBEW District Partnering: Initial Phase Review -- Western Regional Initiative
William G. Dale, Fellow
The How, Why and Future of Estimating
Richard E. Manrod, Fellow
Future Cell Technology: The Future is Now
E. Milner Irvin, Fellow
How Technology Has Driven Changes in Electrical Contracting
Claud O. McCrory III, Fellow
Thomas A. Edison: One Man -- An Entire Industry
E. Milner Irvin, Fellow
Financial Planning -- A Wealth of Choices
Richard W. McBride, Fellow
Mentoring Our Future Leaders
John J. Negro, Fellow
Equalizing the Inheritance: An Addendum to Succession Management
Wesley S. Harkonen, Fellow
Suggested Strategies for Working Within Electrical Utility Deregulation
Eddie Horton, Fellow
Peer Groups in the Electrical Contracting Industry
Joe R. Devish, Fellow
Entering into the Security Contracting Business
Leo J. McMillan, Fellow
Business Transfers to Second Generation
T.A. Huston, Fellow
Electrical Contracting: NECA and International Relationships
John A. Battisson, Fellow
NECA: An Appreciation
Clarence J. Visser, Fellow
Colonial Williamsburg and NECA
Charles P. "Jed" Wilson, Fellow
Succession Management
Allan Shapiro, Fellow
Voluntary Substance Abuse Testing Program: Western Pennsylvania Electrical Workers Labor Management Cooperation Committee
Thomas P. Hanlon Jr., Fellow
Frederic B. Sargent, Fellow
Change Orders
Jack F. Beck, SR., P.E., Fellow
An Overview of Business and Family Relationships
Donald G. Surnbrock, Fellow
Job Competition Analysis
John M. Harlan, Fellow
The Family Business
Dillard R. Borden Jr., Fellow
Succession and Corporate Culture
William A. Collins, Fellow
The Technical Contractor
Stephen E. Chilton, Fellow
Multi-Employer Group Self Insurance
Felix Hirsch, Fellow
Partnering
Lester O. Wuerfl Jr., Fellow
Quality Management Year 2000
Donald W. Close, Fellow
NECA as an Educational Institution
Ralph E. Johnson
Computers in the '90s and the Electrical Contractor
Joseph H. McAtee, Fellow
Productivity
Ralph E. Johnson, Fellow
Sales is Work
Frederic B. Sargent, Fellow
Know When to Quit
Victor H. Douglass, Fellow
Superconductors: Fact or Fiction?
Hans J. Kolb, Fellow
Stephen Lindeim, Fellow
Thomas P. Hanlon, Jr., Fellow
Education and Training, Teach Now or Pay Later
Robert E. Doran, III, Fellow
New Management Tools For The Nineties
Donald F. Collins, Fellow
The Academy of Electrical Contracting: Past-Present-Future
Robert L. Higgins, Fellow
Being The Best We Can Be Using Old Concepts
Anton Klingler
Finance and Insurance
James E. Henehan
The NECA-IBEW Relationship (A "Marriage" Worth Preserving)
Wesley C. Ohman
A Philosophy for an Electrical Contractor
William A. Collins, Fellow
Are Contract Documents Really Found Under Cabbage Leaves?
Robert L. Wilkinson, Fellow
New Chance in Labor Relations
Albert G. Wendt, Fellow
Employee Stock Option Plans and Their Benefit for the Electrical Contractor
Richard Alterman, Fellow
Mental and Physical Dilemma
J. Robert Pritchard, Fellow
Political Action And The Electrical Contractor
Emerson Hamilton, Fellow
Electrical Contracting Deregulated
Allen F. Knickrehm, Fellow
Managing for Production
J. L. Malone, Fellow
The Power of the Soft Sell
Aldo P. Lera, Fellow
The World's Biggest Do-It-Yourselfer! A "1984" Look at TVA
Wyman McCall, Fellow
Traditional Management Structures Applied to Electrical Contracting Organizations
Stephen Lindheim, Fellow
Do You Want to Stay in Our Business?
Thomas A. O'Dwyer, Fellow
Rear View Mirror
Norman D. Ferguson, Fellow
What Will The National Contractors Association Be Like In 1987?
Donald W. Close, Fellow
Are We Working Ourselves Out Of Business?
Hans J. Kolb, Fellow
Construction Management
Ben P. Waters and Charles E. Wise, Fellows
Labor-Management Relations: A Formula for Success
Jack Buttrum, Fellow
The NECA Chapter Manager and Other Remarks as Presented to the NECA Chapter Managers' Institute
Lawrence E. Martin
Energy and the American Dream
Frank H. Bertke, Fellow
Establishment and Purpose of The Academy of Electrical Contracting
Richard W. Osborn, Fellow
Chairman 1970-73; 1977-79
A Chapter Manager's Point of View
Perry T. Shilts
Things You Really Never Wanted To Know About Retirement And Were Too Smart To Ask
John S. Clark
"To be or not to be" INSURED: A Benefit Program for the Electrical Contractor
A. David Yadlovker
Perpetuation of a Privately Owned Corporation With No Major Shareholder
F. Gordon Davie
The Death of a Contractor
Jerry M. Gizdich
Two Hundred Years of Labor Law History in the United States
George A. Harter
One Contractor's Views on Management Philosophy
Gerald M. Wadleigh
A Quarter Century Experience with a Health and Welfare Fund
Irving I. Coken
From Tool Box to Attaché Case, One Man's Prescription for the Climb Up
Jerome A. Valenti
The Philosophy of Perpetuating a Solely Owned Business of The Story of Bergelectric
Alexander L. Berg
The Ugly American Contractor: An Analysis of Overseas Operations
Milton Staub, Fellow
Conservation of Energy by Use of Sun Space
Theodore D. Bross, Fellow
Increasing Productivity Through 'Superintendents For Progress'
George L. Peterson, Fellow
The Relationship Between The Construction User And The Electrical Contractor
Dana H. Malins, Fellow
Productivity
R. E. Robison, Fellow
Productivity Analyzed
Wallace J. O'Brien, Fellow
So You Are Ready To Retire!
Samuel C. Sachs, Fellow
Political and Sociological Aspects of the Energy Crisis Affecting the Electrical Contractor
Charles P. Wilson, Fellow
A Time For Checking Up...
Herb Schlater, Fellow
Conventions -- Where Do We Go From Here?
Norman D. Ferguson, Fellow
Labor Relations in the Electrical Contracting Industry
Dan M. Gephart, Fellow
What Will Be The Contractor-Electrical Utility Relationship For Line Work Ten Years From Now?
Kurt Brammer, Fellow
Denver Area Survey of Manpower Requirements for Electrical Construction Industry With a Forecast of Apprentice Requirements
Ralph E. Johnson, Fellow
The Electrical Contractor Ten Years Hence
Harold A. Webster, Fellow
The Electrical Inspector and Contractor -- 1980
N. E. Cannady Jr,. Fellow