IEC is a trade association representing 3,000 electrical contractors in 60 chapters across the U. Chesapeake has more than 110 members throughout the Washington, Northern Virginia and Baltimore Metropolitan areas. Its members and partners represent an estimated 50,000 small businesses engaged in the installation and maintenance of electrical wiring and devices for homes, schools, stores, highways, industrial plants, and similar projects. IEC was founded in 1957, as the Associated Independent Electrical Contractors of America. The primary goal of the group was to consider and deal by all lawful means with common problems of management, distribution, employment, and financial functions of the electrical construction industry; to foster cooperative action in advancing by all lawful means the common purposes of its members, and promote activities designed to enable the industry to be conducted with the greatest economy and efficiency.
