Member Featured in EC Magazine
February 2009 Issue
The Bothell High opened more than 100 years ago and has underwent a nine-year renovation project which ended in September 2008.
“Coordination and planning were the biggest parts of this job,” said Rod Yanney, owner of Premier Electric, Ferndale, Wash. “They’re part of why it was so unique.”
“You have to specialize if you’re going to successfully do schools,” he said. “Doing a school is not standard electrical construction. Schools are doubly complex in that there are mandated energy conservation, lighting and emergency codes all to meet that can complicate and compete with teachers’ needs in the classroom, and so, an electrical contractor must anticipate the problems that the owner and the electrical engineer did not. We have the front line experience, so we’re the ones who must help the owners’ reps understand what they’re getting in the field.”
