Academy of Electrical Contracting
Special Events
- 2009 Annual Meeting
- Silverado Resort
Napa, California - June 4–6, 2009
The Academy was established by the NECA Board of Governors in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on October 11, 1968, to recognize exceptional and outstanding service to the electrical contracting industry.
Purposes of the Academy
The purposes of the Academy are to honor outstanding leaders in the electrical contracting field and to preserve and utilize for the benefit of the construction industry the wealth of experience and ability these men and women have developed through their years of dedicated effort.
Fellows of the Academy must have rendered exceptional service to the industry and that service is continued and enhanced through aspects of electrical construction in which they have developed expert knowledge. They also participate in issue analysis to determine trends within the industry and make recommendations. An important responsibility for the members of the Academy is participating in long-range studies to ascertain future requirements of the electrical contracting industry. Another requirement of Fellowship is the preparation and delivery of a paper on any subject relevant to the electrical contracting industry.
The Founding Meeting
In keeping with the spirit of scholarship and genuine achievement that membership signifies, the Academy of Electrical Contracting had its beginnings in the august meeting room of Philosophical Hall, Independence Square, Philadelphia.
This was a most suitable locale for the Academy to have its Founding Meeting. Since 1978, Philosophical Hall has been home to the American Philosophical Society, founded in 1743 by Benjamin Franklin to fulfill the country's need for an organization of learned scholars and scientists to cultivate the finer arts and improve the common stock of knowledge. Such great Americans as Thomas Jefferson, Robert Fulton, John Greenleaf Whittier, Charles Darwin, Woodrow Wilson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Herbert Hoover, as well as Madame Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur, were members of the Society. In the field of electrical contracting, the Founding Fellows of the Academy are no less distinguished than the famous men and women with whom they shared a common meeting place.
An Annual Meeting is held in May or June each year.
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