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TEGG SERVICES
Two New Technicians
Join Growing TEGG
| Knights’ Electric’s TEGG Services has added two new technicians to its staff, Chris Silveira and Mikey Peters. Both have completed their intensive technician training course at TEGG Headquarters in Pittsburgh and both are now active in the field. |
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Silveira, who grew up in Southern California, is a certified journeyman electrician who thrives on the intensity of his new job along with the troubleshooting required in the TEGG process. “I feel like I’ve brought some positive, new energy to TEGG”, says Silveira. |
Chris Silveira,
Knights' Electric's TEGG Technician |
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Peters, a San Francisco native, spent 4 years in the Marines after high school and says, “I really like the whole TEGG process, suiting up in the protective gear, testing the electrical systems, making friends with customers and problem solving.” |
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Silveira and Peters have been teamed together as TEGG technicians, but not just because they are an enthusiastic duo, they also have skills that compliment each other. Silveira has 8 years of electrical experience that includes motor controls, which is one of Knights’ Electric’s areas of expertise. Peters also has 8 years of electrical experience in residential and commercial with an emphasis on customer service. |
Mikey Peters,
Knights' Electric's TEGG Technician
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| Luka Dexter, Knights’ Electric’s TEGG DES Sales and Project Manager, who was in Pittsburg with Silveira and Peters with his own continuing training, says he’s been impressed with the two new technicians. “They’re really energetic”, says Dexter, “They just can’t wait to get out there. They seem to feed off each other with a lot of positive energy.” |
WINERIES
Alexander Valley Vineyards Wine Cave
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Alexander Valley Vineyards wine cave is located with a hillside directly behind the winery
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| Knights’ Electric’s commercial department has recently completed work on an extension of the wine caves at Alexander Valley Vineyards in Healdsburg, which makes the cave’s barrel storing capacity approximately 25,000 square feet. These wine caves now have five lateral tunnels off the main artery, which are used mainly for the storage of 7,000 oak wine barrels. |
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Alexander Valley Vineyards, which was founded in 1975, produces 150,000 cases of wine annually with cabernet, merlot and chardonnay comprising over one third of their total production. The winery is in the process of becoming a certified green business and the wine caves are part of that process. |
Energy saving high bay fluorescent fixtures
light the new wine cave addition
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The wine caves provide a green environment with a natural refrigeration temperature and the energy saving lighting. Knights’ Electric provided and installed 18 high bay fluorescent lighting fixtures and 92 jelly jar fluorescent lights, all of which qualify as green lighting. |
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Knights' Electric installed these jelly jar lighting
fixtures in an artery of the main cave tunnel
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Knights’ Electric also installed five exhaust fans and a fan control panel in the new wine cave addition along with a switchgear panel to supply power for the wine cave. There are 4 additional exhaust fans installed at the rear portal of the cave to provide a night air cooling system and remove potentially dangerous CO2 gases, which are created by the wine barrels. |
Knights' Electric's Mike Rose (left) and Art Knight
at the wine cave fan control panel and switchgear
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| Knights’ Electric also installed emergency lighting with battery powered ingress and egress pathway lights, which go on automatically if electrical power is lost in the wine caves illuminating the exit ways. |
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Knights' Electric's Frank Leon shoots metal anchors
into cave wall to support conduit lines
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Richard Freitas was the project manager for Knights’ Electric on this project and Nordby Wine Caves was the general contractor. Knights’ Electric will soon begin work on a 23,000 square foot wine cave at Kenzo Winery in Napa working again with Nordby Wine Caves. |
Knights' Electric's Brad Macler installing
high bay fluorescent lighting fixtures
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RESIDENTIAL
Residential Department’s Paperless Office Helps Clients
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When the client called and asked if the power to the gate was on the original bid for the home being constructed, Jason Harden, Knights’ Electric’s Residential Project Manager quickly had the answer because he clicked on the job folder containing that complete job history files on his computer. |
Jason Harden, Knights' Electric's
Residential Project Manager
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The first level of folders shows departments, forms and categories
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| “I don’t have any paper files in my office”, says Harden, who transferred all of the existing paperwork into electronic files when he began his job at Knights’ Electric last year. Since then he has used his computer to store all of his projects including email communication with his clients. |
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The second level of folders shows the projects and is created
by Knights' Electric's purchasing agent when the project begins
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| All of the managers in the commercial and residential departments have dedicated high speed scanners to make the process from paper to electronic files an easy process. “We can all share information quickly without sorting and carrying paper documents from office to office”, says Harden. “It saves a lot of time.” |
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The third level contains the project detail folders such as
billing, scheduling, quotes and change orders
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| Knights’ Electric is not yet paperless throughout the entire company, but it is moving in that direction. The purchasing department is now paperless and that is where the job folders are created. The purchasing folders contain the original field order for materials, the purchase order, the packing slip and who signed for it. When there is a snafu it’s easy to trace back and find a mistake, fix it and move on. |
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This particular fourth leve folder shows the purchase orders after
clicking on the PURCHASE ORDERS folder in the third level
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| This system helps Knights’ Electric's clients with questions they have about projects in progress. “We can put out fires quicker with clients when they have a question because we have quicker answers with a paperless system”, says Harden. |
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