Excerpt from Residential Low-Rise Agreement

The scope of this Agreement shall not apply to electrical work involved in the following: Institutional Commercial work other than those areas as defined in the Agreement Industrial Residential apartment house work Linework.

Residential Low-Rise shall include, but be restricted to, the electrical work involved in the following:

New homes of any size or type Single family, multiple family or in developments, townhouses, row houses and prefabricated houses of all types (all of which may be wood, metal stud, block, concrete or plastic construction)

Repairs and rewiring in existing homes

Service work on all of the above

The Contractor agrees to recognize the inside and outside jurisdiction as outlined in the Constitution of the IBEW in the performance of all electrical work performed within the geographic jurisdiction of the Union.

Residential Low-Rise shall include, but not be restricted to the following:

Central Vacuum Systems
Security Systems
Telephone, Data and Computer Wiring
Intercom Systems
Cable T.V.
Heating, Ventilating & Air Conditioning Systems
Fire Alarm
Fibre Optic Cabling
Water Metering
Low Voltage Wiring
Swimming Pool operation and Ground Fault Circuits

Any wiring inside and between structures, outside the main structures, outside the main residence, but inside the property lines

All Service Entrances Branch Circuit Wiring and Boxes

Installation of all types of end user fixtures, receptacles, outlets and jacks

The March '99 IBEW Journal said it all.

The cover read . . . "The IBEW Goes Home." For the past 3 years, Local 353 has steadily reclaimed lost ground in the residential construction market.