National Electrical Code 2002 Handbook (National Fire Protection Association//National Electrical Code Handbook)

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Produced by the NFPA, the popular National Electrical Code® (NEC®) 2002 Handbook contains the complete text of the 2002 edition of the NEC® supplemented by helpful facts and figures, full-color illustrations, real-world examples and expert commentary. An essential reference for students and professionals, this Handbook is the equivalent of an annotated edition of the 2002 NEC® that offers insights into new and more difficult articles in order to guide users to success in interpreting and applying current Code requirements to all types of electrical installations. A valuable information resource for anyone involved in electrical design, installation and inspection, the NEC® 2002 Handbook is updated every three years and provides 100% of the information needed to "meet Code" and avoid costly errors. Delmar is pleased to make this one-of-a-kind reference - containing the most widely accepted and most frequently used criteria for electrical installations in the U.S. - available directly from us for our customers who work in and around the electrical trades. It may be used independently and makes an excellent companion to books in Delmar's best-selling electrical wiring series.

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Makes me feel smarter!.......2003-12-01

I am desk jockey who does electrical design work. I have little in-the-field electrical experience. I use the NEC codes frequently to make sure what I design is code-compliant. I have a copy of the standard 1999 NEC book and found many parts of it difficult to interpret. This new "handbook" version has answered all of the questions and uncertainties I had about the code. It has an illustration and explanation for just about every question I could think of. Even when I don't need a certain thing, I have found myself leafing through the book just to learn more.

I would recommend this to anyone, but especially engineer types or those who are inexperienced. I feel much more confident about my job and I don't have to ask electricans those questions that make you feel stupid anymore. Even master electricians will appreciate the explanations of code changes from the 1999 version. Overall, I can't recommend this book more, well worth the $50 or so more than the standard NEC book.

Amazing........2003-01-29

If you hang around with fellow homeowners, there's a lot of water cooler conversation about various things, including the electrical code. This book just nails everything you ever wondered about, everything you haven't yet wondered about, and a few thousand things that you'll never need to know. Want to install a subpanel? Want to figure what gauge of cable to use to supply it? Want to know how to calculate the in^3 fill of a box? How deep to bury an underground cable? How to use raceways? That information totals about 1/4 of 1% of the contents of this book.

Fan Handbook: Selection, Application, and Design

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Fan Handbook: Selection, Application, and Design
Not bad, but not over the fence, either.
An execellent, practical work; worth owning.

Fan Handbook: Selection, Application, and Design
Frank P. Bleier
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ASIN: 0070059330

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Here is the first comprehensive guide to all aspects of modern fan technology. The book takes you through the design, selection, maintenance, and repair of fans used in a wide range of applications and industries, including airfoils...centrifugal fans...mixed-flow fans...roof ventilators...cross-flow blowers...regenerative blowers... and more. You'll find information on fan codes, standards, and specificationsÑplus complete details on fan testing, physical laws affecting fan performance, ventilation requirements, and symbols and conversion factors.

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Fan Handbook: Selection, Application, and Design.......2007-06-08

A good addition to other fan design books but incomplete by itself as it lacks any real guidelines on the mechanical design.
It should include more on impeller stressing (blade bending & hoop stress), shaft critical speed and impeller resonance.
There are a few anomalies but also some good flow information.
The axial and centrifugal flow design data is good except for centrifugal fan casings which really only covers wide, high volume designs. If you are looking for detailed centrifugal casing design for high pressure blowers then look elsewhere (I am still looking).
The chapter on system resistance is very informative. The other sections on fan applications and the different fan types is also very good.
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Not bad, but not over the fence, either........2002-02-26

As a basic primer on fan concepts, this is a good book. It also serves as a sort of non-engineer's guide to fan design and allows someone with very little knowledge or experience create a fan design of some reasonable worth.

Unfortunately, I was looking for a bit more of an in depth aerodynamic study and have yet to find a piece of literature that I like. I understand that many of the older books on cascade aerodynamics are quite good, but they are no longer in publication, and this didn't really satisfy my interests.

Particularly annoying to me is the lack of derivation of the methodology in the fan design section. Some basic magic formulas are given and then tied together with some basic velocity diagrams to yield a fan blade design methodology.

An execellent, practical work; worth owning........1998-08-02

The "Fan Handbook" is the finest book yet written on fan design, implementation, use, and trouble shooting. The book a delight to read and use. Mr. Bleier, unlike many techno-types, is fine writer (and I suspect re-writer) and a careful idea organizer. The work has many, many professionally shot photographs and is fully illustrated. There are no crude computer generated drawings anywhere! It's well indexed and heavily cross-referenced.

The book's slant is to the practical and explicitly avoids calculus, but it is by no means elementary. Any person with high school algebra and trig can understand the well-presented equations and solve all the case study problems with a little effort. Math phobes needn't be put off; the book is not "too" mathematical.

The only thing that prevented me from awarding five stars to this terrific book was an important omission. No mention is made of specialized fans for cooling towers. I had especially hoped to learn mo! re about design requirements for static presure regain/velocity recovery fan stacks for very large fans. But this shortcoming should not disuade any cooling tower engineers from purchasing this book, since all of the principles discussed do fully apply to cooling towers. END

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Every sentence radiates vast experience

Book of References

Don't Re-invent the Wheel

The Complete Requirements Engineering Book

Practical desktop reference guide for Requirements Analysts

The Requirements Engineering Handbook (Artech House Technology Management and Professional Development Library)
Ralph, R. Young
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Requirements Engineering

Writing Better Requirements

Customer Centered Products: Creating Successful Products Through Smart Requirements Management

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ASIN: 1580532667

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A concise and thorough handbook on requirements analysis, this invaluable book is the perfect desk guide for your systems or software development work. This first-of-its-kind handbook enables you to identify the real customer requirements for your projects and control changes and additions to these requirements. The book helps you understand the importance of requirements, leverage effective requirements practices, and better utilize resources. You also learn how to strengthen interpersonal relationships and communications which are major contributors to project effectiveness.

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Gathering customer requirements is a key activity for developing software that meets the customer's needs. A concise and practical overview of everything a requirement's analyst needs to know about establishing customer requirements, this first-of-its-kind book is the perfect desk guide for systems or software development work. The book enables professionals to identify the real customer requirements for their projects and control changes and additions to these requirements. This unique resource helps practitioners understand the importance of requirements, leverage effective requirements practices, and better utilize resources. The book also explains how to strengthen interpersonal relationships and communications which are major contributors to project effectiveness. Moreover, analysts find clear examples and checklists to help them implement best practices.

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Every sentence radiates vast experience.......2006-05-25

This book is exactly what Ralph says (pXV): "a concise but thorough ready reference for Requirements Analysts (RA)". Every sentence provides sound advice and radiates Ralph's vast experience with the subject. I advise Requirements Analysts to read it through and then to read pieces of it again during the ongoing RA activities. Use it as a checklist before starting an activity, and when analyzing why a certain activity went wrong, to see how you can improve, and went (accidentally) right, to see how you can improve even further.
Ralph considers Performance Requirements and other "ilities" beyond the scope of this book (p53). This is unfortunate, because I think these types of Requirements are about the most important, and some more elaboration on how to handle and describe them would have been desirable. However, there are more subjects that he just gives pointers to and I agree with his statement (p97) that the RA should develop a working knowledge of many of the books referred to: "It is not sufficient to have a cursory knowledge of all of the requirements-related processes, practices, methods, techniques and tools. In order to be effective in his or her role, the RA must be able to recommend (and use) a good, proven approach and to facilitate deploying, implementing, and institutionalizing it". This handbook gives the RA a good start.

Book of References.......2006-03-10

This book was not what I expected. Every chapter was full of references to other books, in particular his 1st book.

Don't Re-invent the Wheel.......2004-02-18

This concisely written and easy to understand handbook seems designed to save project managers and requirements analysts scores of man hours and succeeds brillantly.

Need to write a position description for your Requirements Manager - its in there. Need to define the milestones for your Requirements Team - its in there. Need to share with your boss case studies of what happens if your project does NOT implement a specific requirements processes - its in there.

My ROI for this handbook has been 3:1. For every hour have I spent reading, I save at least 3 hours as I write job descriptions, GANTT charts, etc. I could reproduce some of the information in the handbook based on my 20 years of project experience, but not as well and not nearly as fast.

I recommend this handbook to Project or Requirements Managers who need to plan for and implement a successful requirement phase in record time. Good luck!

The Complete Requirements Engineering Book.......2004-02-16

Too often the requirements effort on a project is driven by the current fad in software development without putting a sound foundation in place. Dr. Young's book is about building that foundation, a requirements engineering foundation built on sound engineering principles. As a requirements practitioner, I have many books on requirements engineering. Most of them are limited to specific tools, techniques, and the prejudices of their authors and most contain only a few chapters that are really useful. However, each chapter in the Requirements Engineering Handbook contains a wealth of information on what a successful requirements program looks like.

There are chapters that discuss the skills that a requirements analyst should have such as general skills useful to the analyst (or any engineer for that matter) and specialty skills such as modeling, inspections, and process improvement. There are chapters that discuss building the requirements program such as descriptions of the industry best practices for a sound requirements program and how quality improvement principles can be integrated with the requirements engineering processes. There are chapters that discuss the qualities of the requirements themselves such as descriptions of the requirement types and best of all guidance of how you can use these descriptions to ensure complete understanding of customer needs and expectations.

Each of the requirements books I own provides some useful information in a particular situation, but Dr. Young's Requirements Engineering Handbook is the only complete program building book on requirements engineering that I have seen. If I were charged with starting a new Requirements Engineering program somewhere and could take only one book with me; it would be The Requirements Engineering Handbook by Ralph R. Young.

Practical desktop reference guide for Requirements Analysts.......2004-02-10

I was eager to get a copy of this follow-up to Dr Young's "Effective Requirements Practices" (ERP) because ERP is one of my favourite requirements books -- and on first review, its sibling looks to be an excellent companion volume. Where ERP laid out 10 key requirements practices and focused on *what* to do, the Requirements Engineering Handbook (REH) covers *how* to do it -- the process, tools, and techniques to help identify what Dr Young calls "REAL" requirements.

The REH discusses the roles, skills, and characteristics a Requirements Analyst (RA) needs to be effective. It defines over 20 types of requirements, and tells you how to gather and manage them. Like Steve McConnell does in his excellent project management books, Ralph Young sets all of this in a context that helps if you're using the CMMI, but doesn't require it. He also adds case studies and sidebar commentaries from both luminaries and run-of-the mill RAs (which helped convince me I could really do this stuff on my project!)

Like ERP, REH is extensively footnoted, with a very complete and current set of references & URLs that makes it essentially an index into the requirements body of knowledge. This Handbook is concise (215 pp, plus glossary & 10 pg bibliography), so when looking for references, it's sometimes even faster than Google, because you get several footnotes that summarize the most appropriate literature, and help you get directly to relevant additional sources.

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Competitive Engineering documents Tom Gilb's unique, ground-breaking approach to communicating management objectives and systems engineering requirements, clearly and unambiguously.

Competitive Engineering is a revelation for anyone involved in management and risk control. Already used by thousands of project managers and systems engineers around the world, this is a handbook for initiating, controlling and delivering complex projects on time and within budget. The Competitive Engineering methodology provides a practical set of tools and techniques that enable readers to effectively design, manage and deliver results in any complex organization - in engineering, industry, systems engineering, software, IT, the service sector and beyond.

Elegant, comprehensive and accessible, the Competitive Engineering methodology provides a practical set of tools and techniques that enable readers to effectively design, manage and deliver results in any complex organization - in engineering, industry, systems engineering, software, IT, the service sector and beyond.

* Provides detailed, practical and innovative coverage of key subjects including requirements specification, design evaluation, specification quality control and evolutionary project management
* Offers a complete, proven and meaningful 'end-to-end' process for specifying, evaluating, managing and delivering high quality solutions
* Tom Gilb's clients include HP, Intel, CitiGroup, IBM, Nokia and the US Department of Defense

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Excellent systems engineering book.......2007-08-28

This is one the books which has caused a great impression on me. It helps to get away from high-level, gut-feeling, fuzzy goals and descriptions to very concrete targets, unambiguous requirements and rational decisions. This strikes a chord at the heart of systems design and architecture, which consists in maximizing a set of business goals with limited resources (time, budget, personnel). I highly recommend it.

It's a very good book........2007-01-16

Building software systems is not easy, this book can help you to do a better job.

Best Practices in Systems Engineering and Management.......2006-04-06

My interest in the topic of competitive engineering (CE) was piqued several years ago when I heard very favorable comments about Tom Gilb's tutorial on that subject at the INCOSE 2002 Symposium in Las Vegas.

The book's subtitle is "A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage". The term "Planguage" is central to an understanding of the book. Planguage, which is derived from a union of "plan" and "language", is the methodology for implementing CE. Much of the book is devoted to describing the generalized processes, rules, and vocabulary of Planguage. Tom notes, "Planguage should be viewed as a powerful way to develop and implement strategies that will help your projects to deliver the required competitive results." Fundamentally, the book presents a new take on best practices in systems engineering and management.

The book is useful on several levels. For organizations without a formal or documented process, tailoring of Planguage would jump start the process at a high level of maturity. For organizations that have achieved CMMI level 3 status, Planguage by itself is not as useful. However, many of the ideas of CE-the Planguage methods-are worth considering for enhancement of existing organizational processes. Tom states that CE is "about technological management, risk control, and breakthrough improvement in complex business systems, projects, and processes." CE is a believable approach for delivering complex projects on time and within budget.

The book passed my value-added test, when I realized that I was photocopying several pages for future reference, to be part of my "toolkit" of helpful tips and techniques. I particularly enjoyed reading the 10 often witty, summary principles in each chapter. Two examples are:

* The Principle of `Storage of Wisdom': "If your people are not all experienced or geniuses, You need to store their hard-earned wisdom in your defined process. Capture wisdom for reuse, Fail to write it, that's abuse!"

* The Principle of `The early bird catches the worm': "Your customers will be happier with an early long-term stream of their priority improvements, than years of promises, culminating in late disaster."

About 30% of the book is the Planguage Concept Glossary, which Tom views as a central contribution of the book. I focused my attention on the other, more interesting, parts of the book, which describe the main CE/Planguage methods of Requirement Specification (RS), Design Engineering (DE), Impact Estimation (IE), Specification Quality Control (SQC), and Evolutionary Project Management (EVO, also known as Evo). RS describes an approach for identifying all types of requirements while avoiding ambiguity and also planning for change. Functional and performance requirements are distinguished. DE deals with identifying, choosing, and prioritizing the order in which design ideas are implemented and delivered. In conjunction with Evo, DE selects the design ideas most likely to provide a significant benefit for early delivery.

SQC is an eminently practical approach for evaluating the quality of any technical document via sampling measurements. An hour of SQC early in a project can save almost 10 hours of rework. SQC also provides a means to assess the success of process improvement efforts. IE provides a realistic method for evaluating-in quantitative terms-the effectiveness of designs in meeting both the requirements, especially critical performance attributes, and the resource budgets.

Evo focuses on early, frequent delivery of project results via a series of high-value, small evolutionary steps. An ideal Evo approach would divide the project into a series of cycles. Each cycle would consume 2-5% of the total financial budget and 2-5% of the total project time-while delivering some measurable, required results to the stakeholders. The next cycle is selected to deliver the best stakeholder value for its cost (highest ratio of value to cost, or highest ratio of performance to cost). Although an ideal approach can't always be realized, Tom provides some convincing examples to argue that there is always a solution to making a project evolutionary (small steps with critical deliveries first).

Perseverance pays off with Competitive Engineering. The book is not a quick read, which Tom acknowledges. You have to carefully study some of the pages to understand the concepts being presented. The reward occurs when you glean the nuggets of wisdom from the numerous practical examples, case studies, and Planguage examples. Tom's way of presenting the CE concepts makes the book a useful addition to the systems engineer's library.

Thinking... further ;o).......2006-03-12

In a period where the trend is to follow agile approaches with condensed guidance (see the 12 principles of the Agile Manifesto for instance), it could seem strange to publish a book on software development with more than 500 dense pages. You should however not be frightened by this book. Beneath the size and the structured form lies an approach based on practical experience that incorporates change and flexibility without abandoning the quest for precision and delivering value.

The main concept of Competitive Engineering is Planguage, a word created mixing plan and language. Communication is the basis for working together. This is why Tom Gilb emphasises first the creation of a common vocabulary. He states that his glossary could be considered as the best contribution of this book. Beneath the definition of a common language, for me the "hidden agenda" of the book is to help us to think... further. The common language is only a tool that helps us express our thoughts more precisely and completely.

Fortunately for us, Tom Gilb didn't only write a dictionary of system engineering. A large part of the book is devoted to the activities of system engineering and project management. Based on Planguage, Gilb gives us a framework to elicit clearer requirements. He emphasises a measurable vision ("bad numbers beat good words") and presents tools to achieve this objective. He also helps us separate requirements from design. He devotes an entire chapter to quality control. Finally, there is a presentation of the techniques of evolutionary project management that supports incremental development based on the priority and impact techniques described in previous parts of the book.

In every chapter you will find examples and case studies that help to visualise how the concepts translate into practice. There is also an "additional ideas" part that presents material for further thinking. Beneath the seriousness of the topic, Gilb also manage to place some lighter parts and you will find how to compare seriously apples with oranges.

At the end, your realise that you have a book where process is not opposed to people, structure is not opposed to flexibility, precision is not opposed to allowing change, documentation is not opposed to active refinement, Gilb's proposed solution is not opposed to customisation for your needs. It is just a book that gives you new inspiration to deliver better software solutions to your customer.

If you are interested in software process improvement, you can read this book from the beginning and find practical material to examine your current practices with a different vision. If you are a lonesome project manager or developer, you could begin by just using the index to get Gilb's view on your current activity or problem. Be cautious, because there are many chances that you will be tempted to read more material ;o)

After reading this book, I browsed again my old copy of "Principles of Software Engineering" that I bought when it was published in 1988. I saw that many ideas from "Competitive Engineering" were already presented in this book. Tom Gilb just applied to his ideas the same concepts he proposes for system engineering. He refined, expanded and structured them to get a better product. The printing industry has just prevented evolutionary delivery, but you can bet that he will find a way to include this in the future.

A "Must Read" Book.......2006-02-25

Tom Gilb, the father of the Evo methodology, shares his practical, real-world experience for enabling effective collaboration between developers, managers, and stakeholders in this book. Although the book describes in detail Planguage, a specification language for systems engineering, the methodological advice alone is worth the price of the book. Evo is one of the truly underappreciated agile methodologies and as a result Gilb's thought-provoking work isn't as well known as it should be, although I suspect that this will change with this book. The book describes effective practices for requirements and design specification that are highly compatible with the principles and practices of Agile Modeling, yet it goes on to address planning activities, quality, and impact estimation. I suspect that this book will prove to be one of the "must read" software development books of 2006.

Production and Inventory Control Handbook

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Excellent reference on production and inventory control

Production and Inventory Control Handbook
James H. Greene
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The leading reference for production and inventory control professionals for over 25 years, the Handbook has been totally updated to reflect today's rapidly changing manufacturing environment. The Third Edition now includes 37 contributions from more than 50 distinguished members of the American Production and Inventory Control Soceity (APICS). The work features 15 all-new chapters, covering bar coding, bills of materials, MRPII, customer and vendor relations, TQM topic, and more--plus full details on APICS certification requirements.

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Excellent reference on production and inventory control.......2003-05-02

Yes, it's a bit expensive, but this book is enormous and packed full of information. At 1200 pages, you're probably not going to read this from cover to cover. Instead, you'll want to have this on your shelf whenever you need information on production and inventory management. The book is actually a compilation of chapters by various authors. On the plus side, this results in having each topic covered by an expert on that specific topic. On the minus side, it results in some redundancy from chapter to chapter and inconsistency in the quality of each chapter.
What's great about this book is that if you need information on a topic related to production and inventory management, you are almost certain to find the topic covered in this book. I definitely recommend this as the starting point in your manufacturing operations library.

Stallcup's Electrical Calculations Simplified 2005

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Step-By-Step Calculations --- Not Here
A hands-on book for professionals

Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations
C. C. Lee , and Shun Dar Lin
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Step-by-step guide to environmental calculation. The only hands-on reference of its kind, Handbook of Environmental Engineering Calculations, by respected national expert C.C. Lee, provides calculation procedures for solid waste management; air resources management; water quality assessment and control; surface water; lake and reservoirs; groundwater; public water supply; waste water treatment; and risk assessment/pollution prevention. Each procedure is presented with fully illustrated steps. The author, an EPA Research Program Manager, shows the integration of regulatory requirements into environmental design, so that the resulting designs are more acceptable to regulators.

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Step-By-Step Calculations --- Not Here.......2006-03-08

I found the book interesting but not useful. Your best bet is to go to the EPA website for procedures on calculations. Some of the discussion on dry scrubbers and other equipment was useful but not in a form that can be readily used for calculations or sizing.

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A hands-on book for professionals.......2000-08-11

I find this book to be very useful. It deal with water, wastewater and air pollution control related design issues in quite an easy to understand format. The fundamentals have been covered in great detail.

McGraw-Hill's Illustrated Index to the 1996 National Electrical Code (Mcgraw-Hill's National Electrical Code Handbook, 22nd ed, Illustrated Index)

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John E. Traister
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Your on-the-job guide to the 1996 NEC-from A to Z! Wouldn't it be great if you could pinpoint everything the NEC says about room air conditioning, cabinets, electric welders, fans, neon lighting, raceways, rectifiers, and more-just by looking these terms up in a handy take-along guide? Now you can! McGraw-Hill's Illustrated Index to the 1996 National Electrical Code, by John E. Traister, not only leads you instantly to these nearly 350 other terms, it also delivers a concise description of the relevant NEC installation requirement-often illustrated by an easy-to-follow drawing or diagram-and refers you to every Code section that mentions it. What's more, a special icon gives you at-a-glance access to hundreds of changes made to the new 1996 Code-so you're sure to stay at the cutting-edge of the field.

McGraw-Hill's National Electrical Code Handbook

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Not what you think
Must have book for those in electrical construction
It is very nice to say, uncamparable

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Brian J. McPartland
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The best-selling handbook that explains and clarifies the National Electrical Code. This edition is based on the 1999 Code. The National Fire Protection Association revises and publishes the Code every 3 years.

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Not what you think.......2000-04-26

The idea and set up of the CD is great. Just that this code on this disk conflicts with my 1999 NEC code book. And often!

Must have book for those in electrical construction.......1999-12-12

This book cuts through the "code speak" and tells in plain english how to interpret the National Electrical Code. It is formatted to match the NEC. The authors point out some of the controversial areas of the NEC and always recommend the safest and most conservative view. The only shortcoming of this book in my opinion is that is does not cover every single NEC article. The authors choose to dwell on some important topics in great detail and others not at all. Regardless, this is an excellent reference book.

It is very nice to say, uncamparable.......1999-07-10

Little more explaination is require

NFPA handbook of the national electrical code;: Based on the 1968 edition of the National electrical code

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