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tenant improvement is anything within the tenant space or anything specific to tenant needs. It can be a new or old building. The tenant might say: " I need three private offices over here and a meeting over here etc." Its anything outside the shell.

I worked on core and shell which would start from the 14,000 v. coming from the utility to the ductbank swithes and into the building substation which it is stepdown to 277/480. Also included would be running all the feeders to the distribution panels and airhandler/chillers. All part of building but nothing with regard to the specific tenant needs.

Alot of times, in a lame economy like now, the landlord will say "If you lease this space I'll throw in $$ per sq. ft. for Tenant improvement. "

A short call, is a union deal. One of the few advantages for a contractor to be union, is a labor pool. "I need two guys for two weeks". After the two weeks you leave with your paycheck in hand. Its temp. It tough in seattle now with 800 guys on the books out of work. You take what you can get. I think its fun to move around and see how other contractors do things though.

In older houses, like mine built 1963 they did have black two conductor nm with ground, it is 14/2 solid copper with ground. They used it all the switch legs in the whole house. It aint real easy to see in a dimly lit attic, and I guess that spelled its fall from favor with the electrical field. It could after years in hot attics especially in the southern climates discolor the neutral to a much darker shade, and the outer sheathing may bleed onto the white insulation also. I have never seen this product for sale in my brief 20 year career.