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FSG Los Angeles Receives Multiple National Awards and Recognition
As the year winds down with the holidays upon us, FSG’s Los Angeles branch is taking a moment to celebrate a year of firsts. In 2022, the Los Angeles team brought home an Excellence in Construction Pyramid Award from the national trade association Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC). This award, given for FSG’s work on…
Read MoreFSG Attends Launch of AgTech Education Program Container Farm
Last month, on a beautiful Appalachian morning with a touch of autumn in the air, FSG’s Chief Marketing Officer and Director of Innovation Bernie Erickson joined FSG’s Director of Horticulture Christopher Hinshaw for a visit to Johnson Central High School in Paintsville, Kentucky. The occasion marked an important milestone: the official launch of the AppHarvest…
Read MoreMore Than a Feeling: Human-Centric Lighting Delivers Results
If you are like most folks, you might think of lighting primarily as an aesthetic choice, to deliver a particular “look” or “feel” within a space. While certain professional environments have more tightly defined lighting requirements – like dental offices and airport runways – you might assume that for everyone else at home or in…
Read MoreFSG Storefront: Where Facility Managers and Business Owners Get Lasting Value and Personal Service
It has been a year since FSG “opened the doors” at FSG Storefront, our online store. For a growing list of customers, the experience of shopping online with FSG feels like the way things should have been all along. Our online store customers will be the first to tell you that the experience sure beats…
Read More2022 Top Electrical Contractors: FSG in Top 20 Once Again
Each year at this time, the widely respected industry magazine Electrical Construction & Maintenance (EC&M) publishes its list of the Top 50 electrical contractors at work in the United States. To make the list is an honor for every company trying to leave its mark on the highly competitive electrical construction industry. In every other…
Read MoreLighting Distribution Delivers on the Promise of a Winning Lighting Design
Within a facility, the choices for illumination are varied and can run the gamut from industrial to whimsical, providing different moods and levels of visual interest for the people who occupy or visit the space. It naturally follows that modern architectural lighting design straddles the worlds of art and science, seeking to provide experiential value…
Read MoreFact: Customers Shop, Eat, and Play Where They Can Charge Their Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles (EVs) are in the news almost every day. Advocates and critics alike are weighing in on the rise of EVs, and the conversation is “front of mind” for the American public right now. Lately, the conversation has centered around the cost of electric cars, with industry experts and economists wondering if current EV…
Read MoreThe Great Fluorescent Phase Out: US State Legislatures Push for Full Transition to LED
Across the country, businesses and facility owners are all feeling the pinch of rising energy costs. Compounding the problem is the fact that this is occurring during a time of generalized inflation, supply chain disruptions and delays, and dour economic forecasts. And yet, the news is not all bad. Even as one indicator after another…
Read MoreHow Manufacturing and Industrial Businesses Can Make the Most of Planned Downtime
If you run a manufacturing or industrial business, you understand the one thing that can hurt you most: downtime. Downtime, especially when it pops up unannounced, is the express lane to business failure. Just how badly downtime can cripple your business is the subject of much speculation, but experts generally agree that any downtime is…
Read MoreEV Charging Set to Change the Way We Deal with Our Power Grids
Everybody is talking about EV charging stations, and about the expanding network of locations across the country coming on line to meet the new demands of electric vehicles. While the news is exciting for EV owners and those thinking about purchasing an EV, the progress toward a more diversified transportation fleet takes time. The country’s…
Read MoreWhy Energy Efficiency is Important for Your Small Business
Business owners might look back fondly on a time when embracing energy efficiency felt like a forward-thinking, friendly kind of gesture toward someone interesting, a person you might want to get to know better someday. Early efforts to conserve electricity were like the polite side hugs or “attaboy” pats on the back associated with casual…
Read MoreTo All Those Who Eat: Controlled Environment Agriculture is in Your Future
Most folks understand what it means to be proud of a job done well. Here at FSG, we’ve been thinking a lot lately about the particular thrill of doing a great job on projects that do good work, too. In markets across the country, we understand the satisfaction of driving down the road and looking…
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