This Demo-Cast provides a high-level overview, exploring the inspiration, history, and development process of NECA’s library of standards, the NEIS®; highlighting the latest additions to the NEIS® library, NECA 5-2023, Recommended Practices for Prefabrication of Electrical Installations for Construction and NECA 91-2023, Recommended Practice for Maintaining Electrical Equipment.

The National Electrical Installation Standards (NEIS®) started with a simple question: “What exactly is Good Workmanship?”. Electrical Contractors and their employees, as well as general contractors, engineers and building owners, see “Good Workmanship” referenced throughout their plans and specs. But no one had ever taken on the challenge of defining “Good Workmanship” when it comes to electrical construction. The National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA®) took on that challenge in the late 1990’s and develop … Continue reading NECA Demo-Cast: National Electrical Installation Standards, Standards as High as Your Own