Dyanalectric/EMCOR Wins Electrical Contract for New Coast Guard Headquarters

Dynalectric Co., a subsidiary of EMCOR Group Inc., Norwalk, Conn., won a contract for the installation of electrical systems for the new U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Dynalectric will install the electrical systems for the ...
Nov. 17, 2009
Dynalectric Co., a subsidiary of EMCOR Group Inc., Norwalk, Conn., won a contract for the installation of electrical systems for the new U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Dynalectric will install the electrical systems for the nine-level, 1,300,000-square -foot base office building and two parking garages, as well as the electrical systems required at a 65,000-square-foot central utility plant, including relocation of existing site utilities, as well as a tunnel connector to the main building.The large work sitewill require 8,000A of temporary electrical service, which will also be installed by Dynalectric. The estimated 36-month project construction schedule commenced on October 1.

The project, which will be submitted for LEED certification, was one of the early recipients of federal stimulus dollars from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, and received $162 million in ARRA funds. EMCOR was ranked as the largest electrical contractor on Electrical Construction & Maintenance magazine's Top 50 list, with $1.7 billion in 2008 sales.

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Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement. Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.