by Ann Withanee — December 8, 2010—Interstate Electrical Services Corporation, a premier New England provider of electrical construction, electrical services, network systems, design/build service, and building information modeling (BIM), was recently awarded a lighting retrofit project by the University System of New Hampshire (USNH).
Out of $71 million dollars in stimulus money appropriated to New Hampshires Office of Energy and Planning for energy projects, $10.7 million was directed to reducing energy consumption in New Hampshire state-owned building and an additional $1.3 million targeted USNH energy efficiency projects.
The University System chose to use its portion of the money for lighting retrofits for buildings on the Keene, Plymouth and Durham campuses. Interstate Electrical Services Corporation was chosen in a competitive bid to perform the lighting retrofit.
Stimulus money from the government comes with a number of qualifiers and requires contractors to work just a bit harder on the bookkeeping and reporting end of things. According to Laura Richardson, ARRA Coordinator for State Energy Programs of the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning, “Not only was Interstate competitive, but also their work was high quality and their people a pleasure to work with. The ‘Buy American’ and ‘Davis-Bacon’ provisions included in stimulus projects can cause problems because they require extra effort to track down the origin of all components and document payroll and wages. Interstate managed the process will little problem. We couldnt be happier with the results.”
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