Florida’s leader in electrical contracting, communications and service, Tri-City is prominently ranked as the nation’s 25th largest electrical contractor according to Engineering News-Record’s Top 600 Specialty Contractors survey published October 2007.
Tri-City was founded in 1958 by
H.L. ‘Buddy’ Eidel, (top right photo) Chairman, who says the company “has built its strong heritage on a business model philosophy to do more than is expected for client, project and community.” The company has nearly 1,200 employees statewide.
“At Tri-City, we’re keeping the vision clear since 1958,” Eidel added. “I am immensely proud of our five decades of accomplishment and our standing as one of the nation’s largest electrical contractors.”
With 2007 revenues exceeding $160 million, the company’s many landmark projects include the
Orange County Convention Center, (bottom right photo), the
Orange County Courthouse, (bottom left photo) the
Gaylord Palms Resort (middle left photo) and Convention Center, the Ritz-Carlton Orlando Grande Lakes Resort, the
Rosen Shingle Creek Resort (middle right photo) and Golf Club and the Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, the Ritz-Carlton Naples, the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport and countless others.
The company recently received the coveted National ABC Eagle Award of Excellence for the Ritz-Carlton in Orlando, and is regularly named among Orlando Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in Central Florida (Giant category).
Evidencing the family-oriented culture within the company, a great number of Tri-City employees generously donate their time and energy to local charitable organizations. Included are Children’s Home Society of Central Florida, Give Kids the World, Habitat for Humanity, Locks of Love, Orange Intensive Halfway House, Safe Harbor Animal Shelter, S
econd Harvest Food Bank and others.
For example, says Jack A. Olmstead, (middle left photo) President, its employees annually donate to Children’s Home Society’s school supply drives in the summers and toy drives during the holiday seasons.
Employees and their families also volunteer at the Children’s Home Society’s crisis shelters. In addition, a sizable number of employees participate in missionary work in foreign countries, coach youth athletic teams, volunteer at schools and churches and donate food, toys or school supplies.
With six offices statewid
e, Tri-City offers unrivaled experience, vast bonding capacity and skilled professionals for projects of all sizes. The electrical contractor and service provider also operates divisional offices in Fort Myers, Ocala/Gainesville and Tampa, as well as satellite offices in Santa Rosa Beach and Sarasota.
Tri-City’s executive management team consists of
Jack A. Olmstead, President, Charles
W. ‘Chuck’ McFarland, Senior Vice President of Administration/CFO, and District Vice Presidents
Michael L. Cornelius and
F. Rance Borderick.“Since 1958,” added Jack A. Olmstead, President, “Tri-City has provided an unmatched level of personal attention, professional experience, on-time performance and genuine value that have become Florida’s construction industry standard for excellence. I, too, am exceedingly proud of our outstanding team of statewide employees who strive daily to do more than is e
xpected.”
Senior Vice President/CFO McFarland has over 35 years of experience in providing construction-related financial and administrative management.
Cornelius, who joined the company in 1980, is a fourth-generation Florida electrician with over 28 years of electrical contracting experience on major commercial and institutional projects.
Borderick, who joined Tri-City in l972, has over 35 years of experience in residential and multi-family projects and in fact, built the company’s successful multi-family division.
Tri-City provides electrical installations for projects of all sizes, provides electrical maintenance, systems and service repairs and has the experience, strength and staff to deliver superior performance around the clock.
Its major markets include office buildings, government, hospitality, healthcare, industrial, education, special projects, multi-family, new residential, communications, and service.
Tri-City’s Service and Communications Division provides voice, data, video, fiber optics and LAN design, installation and maintenance, and delivers certified structured cabling services with leading products inclu
ding AMP, Avaya, Krone, Leviton, and Ortronics.
Tri-City’s headquarters is located at 430 West Drive, Altamonte Springs, FL, phone 407-788-3500. For more information, visit
http://www.tcelectric.com/.
Tri-City Electrical Starts $1.4M Job in Daytona Beach, FL
DAYTONA BEACH, FL – The Multi-Family and Residential division of Tri-City Electrical Contractors, Inc. is under way on $1.4 million of work at the new 288-unit Integra Shores at Daytona Beach Apartments in Daytona Beach, FL, under its contract with LandSouth Construction, Jacksonville, FL. Completion is slated for June 2009.
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ORLANDO, FL – Employees of Altamonte Springs-based Tri-City Electrical Contractors, Inc. donated more than 100 fully-supplied school backpacks to Children’s Home Society of Central Florida for children in need in our local community. Supplies included paper, crayons, notebooks, lunchboxes, pens, pencils, pencil boxes, markers, highlighters and more. This year, Tri-City’s employees filled and donated a record-breaking 102 backpacks which is the largest number ever.
Tri-City Electrical’s Executive Management Team (above) includes, from left: Jack A. Olmstead, President, Michael L. Cornelius, District Vice President, F. Rance Borderick, District Vice President, and Charles W. ‘Chuck’ McFarland, Senior Vice President/CFO
