Two of the pocket guides I use most are from the NFPA. They are just condenced into seperate residential and commercial books. It's something I can carry around in a pocket or tool bag much easier then the full code book. Alot of the work I do involves value engineering or on the fly reworking of the engineers blueprints. Alot of the hospitals will give the contract and then ask me to value engineer it as I go along. The only local electrical engineer kind of over does things abit. Just bid one furny store where the 2 panels needed to be custom built from SquareD and everything was designed as pipe work. When the materials come to $65,000 I'm again called on to value engineer it. I think I get alot of my bigger jobs because I am able to get the price down while still being up to code. Although I wish I could get a better handle on the bidding of residential.
BTW I would love to have the codes on Cd but there a bit expensive. Do they work on a PDA? I like portability but don't want to walk around the construction site with my laptop.
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