Independent Electrical Contractors Chesapeake

Project Management in the Time of Crises, Part 1
2020-07-15 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Online, MD, United States
A weekly, 4-week, 8-hour, live, video class
Instructor: Kirk Alter, Fast Management, Inc. & Purdue University
Wednesdays, July 15 – August 5, 5-7 PM

Early Registration: $500.00 valid through Thursday, June 25, 2020
Member Early Registration: $400.00 valid through Thursday, June 25, 2020
Standard: $550.00 valid through Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Member Standard: $450.00 valid through Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Good project management has always required paying close attention to the skills of pre-planning, estimating, contract review, scheduling, project execution, customer control…and much more.
At all times, the fundamentals of good project management don’t change. In times of crises – these days of both health crises and economic crises, superior execution is critical to the success of all firms.
In these times “good enough,” isn’t, and many firms are at great risk in the coming months…and perhaps, years.
Contractor, industry expert, and Purdue University professor Kirk Alter and IEC Chesapeake are joining together to provide this timely series of 4-week programs for all-comers.
The class will be offered on Wednesdays from 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Eastern and will be delivered by WebEx. Materials will be provided via DropBox. You can attend using your computer, phone, or another digital device.
This program is the first part of a series, so don’t miss it!
This is a real-world, case-driven program designed to meet the immediate challenges to your firm resulting from the Covid-19 crisis and the resulting economic crisis.
Topics and issues covered include, but are not limited to:

Safety: your customer has some project-specific revised safety policies, and your firm has revised safety SOPS, but the customer is not enforcing their own policies, and your craftworkers are grumbling, and resisting complying. What do you do?
Productivity: you know that enhanced safety precautions are negatively effecting field labor productivity. You understand that they’re necessary, but you’re having a difficult time quantifying the losses, and have no idea on how to convince your customer that these losses should be borne by the project owner. How do you calculate this?
Estimating – your firm is still pretty much estimating as you always have, and have not built de-rating for losses in productivity into your labor units. You’re afraid that if you do you won’t get the work, yet if you don’t, you won’t make the profits that you should. What changes do you need to make?
Proposals – throw your old proposal language out the window…you are not protected. Attend this class and learn how to appropriately cover your risk.
Contracts – you really need to understand how force majeure affects your projects, and revise your approach to contract negotiations and contract language. Identify, quantify, and qualify your contract language appropriately.
Schedule, delays, acceleration, and completion – More than likely, any projects that have been delayed will be accelerated, with the owner and/or GC encouraging/forcing you to “pick up the slack” to help get the projects completed. Regardless of any contract language that you have signed you have leverage. Learn how to utilize that leverage.
Notification – because of the additional risks posed by the crises, you must both modify your notification letters to the customer and actually start to utilize them as a tool to successfully negotiate.
Change Orders – you have even more costs to recover now than ever before. In this program you’ll learn how to revise your standard change order format, proposal, and estimates.
Marketing & Selling – there will be many contractors, large and small, who will not survive these crises…count on it. In this program you’ll learn how to re-think your customer selection, your market selection, and how other industries are being affected by the crises.
Strategy – as much as I hate this phrase, we are now in a new normal, and we will not be going back to “the good old days.” Is your firm actively plotting a successful course to emerge from these crises? Or are you taking a “wait-and-see or business-as-usual” approach? If so, you’re already dead, you just don’t know it yet. Learn how to rethink your strategy.
Your Firm’s New Normal – you have office people working at home, your field leaders have learned how to use MS Teams and Zoom. What are the good things that have resulted from the crises that you can capture to drive more profits to the bottom line? Can you reduce your physical plant costs? Your vehicle costs? Your insurance costs?
Insurance and Bonding – there are major changes that are occurring in the insurance and bonding industries. Are you paying attention? Do you understand how this will affect your costs, your coverage, and your risks? Come and learn what’s happening, and how to protect yourselves.
Supply Chain – right now…right now, major manufacturers in our industry are experiencing supply chain issues and plant slowdowns because of Covid19 – at least one major manufacturer in our industry is only currently operating at 50% capacity because 60% of their workforce just went into 14-day quarantine. You’re going to need a materials management, supply chain strategy.
Differing State, Local, and Federal Regulations – if your firm works in multiple states or areas and you have workers crossing jurisdiction lines you may inadvertently be creating risk for your firm. Some States still have mandatory self-quarantining once you have entered the space. You could end up having to put your crew up in a hotel for 14-days and experiencing associated costs and lost productivity because of it. Are you on top of everything you need to be?

And clearly there are many, many more contemporary topics… As stated, this is an ongoing series and begins with this first 4-week, 8-hour program. As you can imagine, the 14 topics listed will take more than 8-hours to cover in the appropriate depth, so come and join the first of the series, gain some tools, and then come back for more,
This program is designed to be an interactive, discussion-driven, real-world, tool-producing program. No “free-riders” are allowed. Come prepared to talk, to share, and to gain tools designed to help you to survive and thrive in these times of crises. This is not a webinar that you can tune in while you are multi-tasking. Your active participation is necessary.
Who Should Attend?

Project Managers,
Estimators
APMs
Construction Managers
Operations Managers
Owners
and more.

Kirk Alter
About the Instructor:
Kirk Alter has more than 30 years of experience as a contractor and educator in the electrical and mechanical industries. He has worked his way through the industry as a Foreman, Superintendent, Project Manager, Estimator, Operations Manager, and Vice President of a $120M firm. Since 1995 Kirk has developed University level Undergraduate and Continuing Education Programs for electrical and mechanical contractors. Kirk has provided instruction for IEC chapters nationwide, ABC, and Purdue University.
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RAB Industrial Lighting Webinar
2020-07-15 13:00 - 14:00 | Online, MD, United States
IECC, partnering with Associate Partner Phoenix Sales & Marketing, Inc., are offering you a series.
A series of electrical education and information sessions, free of charge.
Next up in the RAB Lighting series is:
RAB Industrial Lighting
July 15th 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Attend and learn how:

RAB Lighting offers multiple solutions to meet the unique lighting requirements for industrial spaces.
Lighting controls, stand-alone or Lightcloud, are easy ways to save energy in industrial spaces.
Designing with the proper quantity and quality of light is critical.

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Wireless Dimming in the Connected Home
2020-07-09 11:30 - 12:30 | Online, MD, United States
IECC, partnering with Associate Partner One Source Associates, Inc., are offering you a series.
A series of electrical education and information sessions, free of charge.
Next up in the Lutron series is:
Part 2–
Wireless Dimming in the Connected Home
With the growing demand within the connected home category, there is an increased need to better understand how these devices are installed utilizing the existing wiring structure.
Review the opportunity and simplicity when it comes to incorporating lighting control, a core connected home category.
THU July 9th at 11:30am
Presented by Bryan Biga & Ian McColley, Lutron
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Dimming Evolution and Basics
2020-06-25 11:30 - 12:30, 2020-06-25 08:30 - 09:30 | Online, MD, United States
IECC, partnering with Associate Partner One Source Associates, Inc., are offering you a series.
A series of electrical education and information sessions, free of charge.
First up in the series is Lutron:
Part 1–
Dimming Evolution and Basics
Learn the basics of lighting control from the introduction and design of the first solid state dimmer through the evolution of the LED.
We will introduce lighting control types, types of loads they control, and importance of compatibility.
THU June 25th
Session 1: 8:30am
Session 2: 11:30am
Presenters: Jim Weber & Mike Maholick, Lutron
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RAB Lightcloud 101
2020-06-17 13:00 - 14:00 | IEC Chesapeake, 8751 Freestate Drive, Suite 250, Laurel, MD, 20723, United States
IECC, partnering with Associate Partner Phoenix Sales & Marketing, Inc., is offering you a series.
A series of electrical education and information sessions, free of charge.
First up in the RAB Lighting series is:
RAB Lightcloud 101
June 17th, 1:00 – 2:00 PM
Lightcloud is RAB Lighting’s cloud-based, wireless network lighting control system. Lightcloud implements all lighting control strategies and techniques to save you up to 68% in energy savings.

RAB supports the customer every step of the way from the sale to installation, setup, commissioning and operation.
The 10-year full warranty covers all hardware and free support of any kind to keep your system running.
Ideal for indoor and outdoor commercial and industrial applications.

REGISTER: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2319115621375159567
IECC Members have first crack at registration; after June 11 we will post to the public via our digital platforms.

LED Solar
2020-05-08 13:30 - 14:30 | IEC Chesapeake, 8751 Freestate Drive, Suite 250, Laurel, MD, 20723, United States
When running electrical or a complete engineered solar lighting system is not in the budget with Light Efficient Design’s David Gershaw’s Chief Innovation Officer
Friday, May 8th
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
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LED Innovative
2020-05-07 13:30 - 14:30 | IEC Chesapeake, 8751 Freestate Drive, Suite 250, Laurel, MD, 20723, United States
Solutions that save installation time and energy consumption with Light Efficient Design’s Nate Dennis, LC IES Director of Energy and Project Sales
Thursday, May 7th
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM
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LED Retrofit
2020-05-06 13:30 - 14:30 | IEC Chesapeake, 8751 Freestate Drive, Suite 250, Laurel, MD, 20723, United States
Basic LED lighting terminology, wattage/energy savings, updating existing fixtures with led lighting with Light Efficient Design’s VP of Marketing Doug Knebelsberger and North East Regional Manager Mario Luna.
Wednesday, May 6th
1:30 PM– 2:30 PM
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Webinar - Electrical Firestop Sales
2020-05-04 11:00 - 12:00 | IEC Chesapeake, 8751 Freestate Drive, Suite 250, Laurel, MD, 20723, United States
IECC, partnering with Associate Partner Colerick Electrical Sales, is offering you a series.
A series of electrical education and information sessions, free of charge, via Zoom, from manufacturers such as Encore Wire, Intermatic, and STI Firestop- to name a few.

Next up in the series is:
Electrical Firestop Sales – May 4, 2020, at 11:00 AM EST

Please join David Augello, Specified Technologies, Inc’s Northeast Regional Manager for a webinar on Electrical Firestop Sales.
The topic that will be covered:
Who is Specified Technologies Inc. (STI Firestop)
What is Firestop
Where/When do we firestop
Why do we firestop
How do we firestop
Problems & Solutions
How can STI help
Q&A

Your Zoom link to register for the free STI Firestop webinar is: https://stifirestop.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zYY1WriyRKmCtcdgUmB5xQ
IECC Members have the first crack at registration; after May 1 we will post to the public via our digital platforms.

Master Exam Preparation
2020-03-25 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-23 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-18 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-16 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-11 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-09 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-04 17:00 - 21:00, 2020-03-02 17:00 - 21:00 and 2 more dates | IEC Chesapeake, 8751 Freestate Drive, Suite 250, Laurel, MD, 20723, United States
Walk into your Master Exam feeling confident and well prepared.
This 40-Hour class is designed to provide a thorough review of the 2017 National Electric Code (NEC)and the Electrical Calculations you need to know when sitting for your Master Exam.
Your enrollment fee includes a copy of Mike Holt’s Exam Prep Text Book.
You must have 5+ years of experience in the electrical trade to be eligible for this course. You must also bring your own copy of the 2017NEC Code Book.
Cost

Early Registration: $670.00
Standard Registration: $730.00
Members receive 25% discount

Cancellation deadline is 14 business days prior to seminar. All cancellations received after deadline and/or no-shows will be billed and/or are non-refundable. IEC Chesapeake A&T has the right to cancel class if less than 15 students register.
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About the Instructor:
Paul Fitzhugh started in the electrical industry in 1984 working in an electric motor shop rewinding and rebuilding electric motors and controls. In Paul’s past 33 years in the industry,he has worked in residential and commercial settings. Installing, troubleshooting, and inspecting electrical premise wiring systems. For the past 11 years, Paul’s position provided him the opportunity to work as a plans examiner, inspector, and medium voltage electrical engineering technician. Paul began teaching as an electrical instructor in 2006 and received his Electrical Masters license in 2007. He has continued as an electrical instructor for the past 10 years teaching apprentices, continued education classes, and Master and Journeyman prep courses.
