From office buildings to sports arenas to subway stations and movie studios, family-owned E-J Electric Installation has consistently added to its portfolio of services and projects. Such scope and flexibility have helped the firm maintain a position for years among the top firms in ENR New York's annual specialty contractor ranking, and that diversity was especially helpful for the firm in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy last October.
In fact, repairing and reconstructing New York buildings that Sandy had flooded with several feet of seawater, destroying their power systems, was a chief reason that E-J's 2012 revenue soared a hefty 65% to $305 million, compared with its more typical single-digit, year-on-year growth, executives at the firm say.