Welcome to Electrical Prefab!
Electrical Prefab is here to offer an invaluable resource center for construction owners, project managers and electricians for raising the bar as a more profitable means of planning and installing electrical work. By drawing on the expertise of contractors' best practices and manufacturers' offerings, Electrical Prefab guarantees to make prefabrication techniques one more tool to have to ensure successful execution of electrical projects.
Electrical prefabrication is not an original idea. Some of the most respected names in the industry have embraced prefabrication for decades as a means of increasing efficiency and margin in their businesses. Electrical Prefab's mission is to stimulate your creativity and provide the necessary information for you to implement prefabrication into your projects.
Electrical prefabrication is not an original idea. Some of the most respected names in the industry have embraced prefabrication for decades as a means of increasing efficiency and margin in their businesses. Electrical Prefab's mission is to stimulate your creativity and provide the necessary information for you to implement prefabrication into your projects.
What is prefabrication?
Prefabrication is the process of assembling parts or components that make up a larger assembly or system, prior to the scheduled field installation for the overall assembly or system. Using efficient prefabrication methods in a controlled setting will produce economies in the construction, labor, and profitability of your project. Electrical Prefab is here to aid you in the application of prefabrication with electrical projects.
What can you prefabricate during electrical projects?
Electrical rooms on unitized racks, pre-punched junction boxes and panel ends, MC cable cut to length with connectors, Unistrut cut to length, lighting control panels, transformer bases, trapezes, custom wire assemblies, rooftop racks , equipment and control station stands, fixture whips, flex conduit pre-wired, cable tray supports, stainless steel stands, aluminum and hot dip galvanized racks, branch circuit outlet assemblies, underfloor conduit supports, rebar/duct assemblies, GRC nipples, floor sleeves, floor leaveouts, temporary power services, lighting assemblies, temporary power systems, temporary lighting systems, lighting brackets, ground bar assemblies, custom tools, storage containers, conduit racks, reel stands, motor controls, conduit supports, bus duct supports, sealtite assemblies, control stations, cord assemblies, production conduit bends, telephone outlets and risers, receptacle/whip assemblies, and nuclear reactors, [just checking to see if we are paying attention]. The above list doesn’t begin to include everything but it gets you to start thinking about the variety of things you can do to make your job more profitable. The important part is learning to recognize opportunities in a project that can utilize electrical prefabrication.
Why should you implement electrical prefabrication?
Electrical prefabrication can be done successfully on any job site with the proper planning and tools. Here is a list of a few benefits:
- Increase Labor efficiency and decrease overall cost
- Provide adequate storage and better material organization
- Implement better production tools
- Reduce non-productive time
- Provide a more clean and safe work environment
- Eliminate the overlapping of work areas with other trades
- Increase Labor efficiency and decrease overall cost
- Provide adequate storage and better material organization
- Implement better production tools
- Reduce non-productive time
- Provide a more clean and safe work environment
- Eliminate the overlapping of work areas with other trades
We don't use prefab... Prefab doesn't work... We can do it just as fast in the field...
As Trapper John said, "I'm feeling a lot of negativity here."
- Anyone using MC cable has used prefabrication courtesy of the manufacturer.
- Prefabrication doesn't work?... Take the poll and we will post the results.
- Can an electrician that needs to go up 16 floors to get to a work area and down another 16 floors to retrieve material, be as effective as an electrician that has tools, materials, and restrooms within 50 feet?