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Schools ask more of their electrical systems than almost any other type of building. A campus can look calm from the parking lot, but behind the walls it behaves like a small city. Classrooms, science labs, kitchens, auditoriums, server rooms, security systems, athletic facilities, maintenance shops, and student housing all draw power in different ways, often on overlapping schedules. Add aging infrastructure, tight budgets, and safety obligations, and the electrical w

Shopping centers look straightforward from the parking lot. Lights are on, signs glow, automatic doors slide open, tenants operate their own spaces, and the place appears to run on routine. Behind that calm exterior sits one of the more demanding electrical environments in commercial real estate. A shopping center is not one building with one operating pattern. It is a dense mix of retailers, restaurants, service tenants, exterior lighting, parking lot infrastructure,