TEGG Corporation support personnel;
Jennifer Love, administrative,and Sean Kelly, sales coach

The TEGG Corporation sent a group of support personnel to visit Knights’ Electric, Inc. for an evaluation and to provide updated procedures and software to assist Knights’ Electric with their TEGG Services.  The visit is part of an ongoing support and evaluation process that the TEGG Corporation provides for its TEGG contractors.

Michael Ragsdale, Knights’ Electric’s TEGG Services General Manager, sees the visit as a huge positive for personnel and clients.  “The educational value is really important for us and the client because we are always upgrading our procedures and technology, which ultimately benefits the client ”, says Ragsdale.

The TEGG support group included Glenn Mack, Vice President, Strategic Recruitung, who assists Knights’ Electric with the national recruiting of their sales staff.  Jennifer Love, Director of Operations Support, helps with administrative procedures and software updates.  Sean Kelly is the Director of Service Development and has worked with Michael Saitone, Knights’ Electric’s TEGG Services Senior Sales Representative, as his sales coach, since Saitone started two and a half years ago.

“Sean has been very helpful to me", says Saitone.  “He knows how the new software and new TEGG procedures can benefit our clients.  We are able to be more technical in our sales approach and this helps educate our clients also.”

Sarah Allan, Knights’ Electric’s TEGG Services Administrative Assistant, received software training from Jennifer Love with some emphasis on follow up “Care Calls” that Sarah makes to TEGG customers when work or repairs are completed at the customer’s facility.

Wineries
Madrigal Vineyards

Madrigal Vineyards is close to completing their new winery in Calistoga. 

Located south of town on Hwy. 29, Madrigal Vineyards will crush grapes at

their new home this fall.  Previously Madrigal had produced wine off site since
1995 when they began producing Petite Sarah.  They have since added

Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Zinfandel.

James Nolan Construction,

Inc. is the general contractor

for the project, which totals 7,000 square feet.  The winery

is basically a fermentation

room and a barrel room with a small office.  There is no

tasting room, but Madrigal Vineyard wines are available

for tastingat the Napa Wine Company’s Cellar Door on

Hwy. 29 and Oakville Crossing Road in Oakville.

Knights’ Electric, Inc. is finishing their work at the winery, which includes high bay lighting in the barrel and fermentation room, all the

power wiring for the refrigeration system, night air cooling system, fire pump and exterior lights.  Knights’ Electric also manufactured custom wall-mounted pump stanchions for the crush pad and plate-mounted pump

stanchions onthe wine tanks in the
fermentation room.

		Knights’ Electric installed pad mounted switchgear next to the building near the crush area to power the winery.  Virtually all ofthe conduit in the winery is hidden behind walls or the ceiling. Someof the conduit for the outdoor crush pad runs up through the stonework that is set to a height of about four feet and runs around the entire exterior of the winery.
Knights' Electric installed this switchgear under the roof overhang near the crush pad (click photo to enlarge)
Madrigal Vineyards is a classic boutique winery.  “It’s well thought out and well executed”, says Richard Freitas, Knights’ Electric’s Project Manager.
		Knights' Electric is also wiring this ag barn, located behind the winery, with lights and outlets (click photo to enlarge)

RESIDENTIAL
Pool House With RadioRa Lighting

When you have a 10,000 square foot house it makes sense that your pool house would be 3,000 square feet, especially if the pool house has an indoor lap pool.  That’s a partial description of a project Knights’ Electric, Inc.’s residential department is wrapping up in Shiloh Estates.

The home was built 15 years ago and the pool house, built by Boschetti Construction, Inc., has just been added.  Knights’ Electric brought in the power from the PG&E transformer with 600 feet of trenching and wiring.  Aside from the indoor lap pool, the pool house has a sauna, gymnasium, massage room, kitchenette and a hot tub, which is located outside under a veranda.

Knights’ Electric installed a Lutron RadioRa dimming system in the pool house.  “Because of framing constraints we installed a master control key pad at the pool house entrance and used the RadioRa system throughout the house’, says Scott Cameron, Residential Project Manager for Knights’ Electric.

The Lutron RadioRa dimming system operates with radio frequency signals and does not require rewiring.  Existing switches are replaced with RadioRa switches that communicate with the master controls to provide one-touch lighting control for the entire home.

The RadioRa dimming system can also be operated with tabletop controls, a handheld remote control and a clip on visor control for in an automobile to allow a homeowner to change the lighting scene when leaving or arriving home.

The pool house features Juno recessed lighting fixtures and hand crafted wall sconces that were installed by Knights’ Electric.