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TEGG SERVICES
Michael Pizzoli - TEGG Service
Sales Representative
Michael Pizzoli is a Knights’ Electric, Inc.’s TEGG Services Sales Representative. He resides in Healdsburg and he has 18 years of sales experience. Michael grew up in Alaska and lived there through his high school years. “I’m not a city person even though I later lived in the Los Angels area for 10 years”, says Pizzoli. “I guess you could say I’m capable of getting along with all types of people.” |
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Pizzoli describes himself as relaxed, personable and professional. When it comes to relating to customers he likes to keep it simple. “Business people have a lot of people calling on them, so you certainly can’t waste their time. On the other hand when you have something of value, which we do, you have to make that point and get their feedback.”
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Michael Pizzoli, Knights' Electric's
TEGG Service Sales Representative
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“I’m looking for business people that are open to progress. TEGG is a progressive process and I want to talk to people that understand the importance of maintaining their electrical systems”, says Pizzoli. |
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“There’s a big need for TEGG Services in the manufacturing sector and also big data centers, which would include banks and hospitals and any other data center with a high bandwidth usage. Those businesses put a lot of stress on their electrical systems and can’t afford down time.”
Previous to joining Knights’ Electric, Inc.’s TEGG Services Pizzoli worked for Yellow Book USA as an ad consultant. Prior to that Pizzoli was a Senior Account Executive with a long distance and fiber optic company and had AT&T and the University of New Mexico as clients. Pizzoli graduated from the University of California at Northridge with a finance degree and made the Dean’s list. |
WINERIES
Nickel & Nickel Expands with
Second Fermentation Barn
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Nickel & Nickel is building a second fermentation barn on their farmstead
that is very similar to the original fermentation barn pictured here
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Knights’ Electric also completed the electrical wiring and lighting for Nickel & Nickel’s Gleason Barn, a meticulously reconstructed 1770 hay barn from New Hampshire, which houses offices and the winemaking lab for the winery. The Sullenger House, a refurbished 1880’s farm house that serves as the hospitality center, was another Knights’ Electric project. There work included the installation of one-of-kind antique crystal and beaded chandeliers. |
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The fermentation tanks are mounted on tiled tank pads
that contain the hidden electrical wire and plumbing pipes
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The two fermentation barns are the only new construction projects at Nickel & Nickel, but the craftsmanship includes 450 century-old fir beams with post-and-beam, mortise-and-tenon construction in the original barn. The new fermentation barn, which is entering the trim stage, is a similar ‘copy” of the original fermentation barn. |
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The overhead catwalk area with metal halide
lighting installed by Knights' Electric
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Knights’ Electric is installing a Lutron lighting system and key pads, which they will program for the lighting including 40 quartz lighting fixtures that will uplight the classical wood framing above the fermentation tanks. A number of mood lighting scenes will be programmed and availably accessed from the key pads. |
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Knights' Electric installed the lighting and power stanchions,
which are housed in the pillars behind stainless steel cabinet doors
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This is a design/build project for Knights’ Electric, which includes hooking up the refrigeration connections that were stubbed out from the original fermentation barn. Knights’ Electric is also wiring power to the night-air cooling system, temperature control system and CO2 sensors.
All of the electrical and plumbing lines are invisible to the visitor’s eye because they run up through the inside of the tank pads and are concealed behind stainless steel panel doors that open for hose stations and electrical outlets. |
THE COMPANY
Art Knight - Solving Problems
with Design/Build Solutions
Art Knight, Vice President & Commercial Manager of Knights’ Electric, Inc., recommends design/build planning to his clients for new construction projects when it is appropriate. Aside from saving time and money when starting a new project, design/build planning can also accommodate future expansion and save more money and time when the client is ready to expand. |
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“You have to ask the client about the future”, says Knight, “future electric needs have to be addressed in the beginning of the design process in order to size the electrical service. The electrical service and utility power infrastructure needs to be sized properly to handle any future expansion plan. If you don’t plan for expansion it’s more expensive to go back and change the infrastructure to support the expansion.” |
Art Knight, Knights' Electric, Inc.'s
Vice President & Commercial Manager
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Traditional Medicinals, a long time client of Knights’ Electric is in the process of getting a new main electrical service to accommodate their new photovoltaic system and wanted to make provisions to add a back-up generator at some point in the future.
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Knights' Electric installed this back up power system for Rodney Strong Vineyards that consists of the switchgear (left), transformer (right) and 12-cylinder Caterpillar 750 KW generator (behind).
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Knights’ Electric is incorporating an automatic transfer switch built into the main switch gear as well as installing all the interconnecting underground power and control conduits ahead of time using existing secondary trenches that were open as part of the main project. When the time comes, Knights’ Electric would install the generator utilizing the pre -installed infrastructure thus minimizing unnecessary additional changes or costs.
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Using past experience and making some assumptions, if equipment information is not available, Knight is able to calculate the amperage needed for an electrical service at a proposed winery. |
Montemaggoire, a wine and olive oil making
facility in Healdsburg is an example
of a stylish
design/build project
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His calculations are based on square footage for the entire winery which can include the tank room, barrel room, tasting room, administration and crush area. This is an important key to a design/build project when the client wants you to, one; produce a design drawing for permitting but does not yet have all of the equipment information and, two; provide information for filling out of the electric utility application for service. |
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