TEGG SERVICES
TEGG Seminar
Educated Everyone
| Knights’ Electric, Inc.’s TEGG Services seminar, which was held on November 4 & 5 at the North Coast Builders Exchange in Santa Rosa, was a very educational experience for attendees that included commercial and winery facility managers plus managers and employees of Knights’ Electric. |
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Knights' Electric's TEGG Services seminar was held
at the North Coast Builders Exchange in Santa Rosa
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| Day one covered Arc Flash Safety and day two covered Electrical Preventive Maintenance. The two-day seminar was conducted by John H. Waggoner, Director of Technical Training for TEGG Corporation. He is certified in numerous testing disciplines as well as energized safe work places. |
Attendees included facility managers from Amy’s Kitchen, The BoDean Company, Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, Palm Drive Hospital, The Cities of Rohnert Park and Healdsburg, Flamingo Hotel and Bohemian Grove. Wineries and winery groups included Kendall-Jackson, Foster’s Group, Stag’s Leap, Conn Creek, La Crema, Rodney Strong Vineyards and Far Niente. |
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| “This was a real eye opener”, says Jim O’Toole, Maintenance Manager at the Flamingo Hotel in Santa Rosa. “There’s a lot to consider when you take off the cover of an electrical panel. With an arc flash it doesn’t have to be something you did by mistake it could happen just because of a bad breaker. We’re potentially talking about thousands of degrees of heat and if you’re wearing the wrong clothes like polyester it could be a disaster.” |
| Lynn Jemison, Safety Service Specialist at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in Napa County is a certified electrician, but had never received arc flash safety training before. |
“I benefited greatly from this seminar and was impressed with experience that he (John H. Waggoner) had in arc flash and safety maintenance”, says Jemison. “Our winery is now required to have infrared testing of our electrical system by our new insurance company.”
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John Waggoner, of the TEGG Corporation
conducted the two-day seminar
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WINERIES
Rochioli Vineyards & Winery Addition
Knights’ Electric’s commercial department is in the process of working on an addition to Rochioli Vineyards & Winery, which is located on Westside Road, next to hop Kiln Winery, in Healdsburg. The addition includes a new wing of four offices, two barrel storage rooms and a new tank room. |
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Rochioli Vineyards & Winery before construction of the addition began.
Roof now extends down where overhead trellis is in this photo,
New offices extend from tasting room on right to the end of buiding on left
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Knights’ Electric produced the electrical drawings for this design/build project. Knights’ Electric installed all power and control wiring for the new refrigeration, mechanical and plumbing systems. They also designed and built the power and controls for a night-air cooling system for the two new barrel storage rooms and the new tank room. |
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Looking back from the tasting room with a current
view of the new office wing and new roof extention
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All of the offices will have energy-saving fluorescent lighting fixtures, which are required by the state of California’s Title 24 energy guideline. |
Electrical wiring for offices and
window view of courtyard
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Rochioli Vineyards & Winery is a third-generation venture. Joe Rochioli, Sr. purchased the land for the vineyards, which are located on both sides of Westside road, in 1938. The winery is now run by Joe Rochioli, Jr. and his son Tom, who is the winemaker. The estate wines include Sauvignon Blanc, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir. There is a five year waiting list for the coveted single vineyard wines. |
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Just beyond the construction area is the tasting room
patio and one of the winery's vineyards
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Rochioli Vineyards & Winery and Knights’ Electric share some history going back to when the winery was originally built in 1983. It was Knights’ Electric, then run by the founder Bob Knight, who wired the original electrical system for the winery. |
Knights' Electric installed metal halide
lighting fixtures in the new fermentation area
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Twenty five years later Knights’ Electric is working on the winery’s addition with Bob’s sons, Art and Rob Knight, his daughter, Barbara Ragsdale and son-in-law Michael Ragsdale, who are now at the helm of Knights’ Electric. |
THE COMPANY
Michael Ragsdale - TEGG GM
Says TEGG is Growing
Michael Ragsdale, Knights’ Electric, Inc.’s TEGG Services General Manager, says TEGG is growing and offering more services to its clients. “We now handle of the service calls that come into Knights’ Electric for residential, industrial and commercial clients.” |
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“We are also developing PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) program for all of the employees at Knights’ Electric. PPE consists of protective equipment and clothing for employees who work with energized electrical systems”, says Ragsdale. “Our DES department headed by Luka Dexter offers energy saving fluorescent lighting, which can also be retrofitted to replace less efficient lighting systems. DES also offers solar energy systems featuring solar panel installation,” |
Knights' Electric's TEGG Services
General Mananger
Michael Ragsdale
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| Compressed gas leak detection and bearing inspection are two new services being offered by Knights’ Electric’s TEGG Services. “Using ultrasound we can calculate benchmarks for the life of bearings and we can use infrared detection when a problem arises”, says Ragsdale. |
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“I’m very happy with the development of TEGG”, says Ragsdale, “We have two new TEGG technicians, who are currently training at TEGG headquarters in Pittsburgh, which gives us a total of four technicians. Luka Dexter, who heads our DES department, is also in Pittsburgh receiving additional training.” |
Michael Ragsdale at his desk in the offices
of Knights' Electric's
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Knights’ Electric’s TEGG Services will also continue to hold educational seminars for their clients like the Arc Flash Safety and Electrical Preventive Maintenance seminar they recently conducted in Santa Rosa. “Every day we are trying to develop new ways to help our clients”, says Ragsdale, “Our clients always have new challenges and it’s our job to help them meet those challenges.” |
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