MC Dean

V BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 10, ISSUE 3 ABB is a technology leader in electrification and automation, enabling a more sustainable and resource-efficient future. The company’s solutions connect engineering know- how and software to optimize how things are manufactured, moved, powered and operated. Building on more than 130 years of excellence, ABB’s 105,000 employees are committed to driving innovations that accelerate industrial transformation. A global leader in electrical products and solutions, operating in more than 100 countries, with over 200 manufacturing sites. Our 50,000+ employees are dedicated to transforming how people live, connect and work by delivering safe, smart and sustainable electrification solutions. We are shaping the future trends of electrification, differentiating through technological and digital innovation while delivering an outstanding experience through operational excellence for our customers across utilities, industry, buildings, infrastructure and mobility. Making sure you have a reliable supply of power for your critical process is one of ABB’s main businesses. Our power distribution and switching products ensure power gets to your site and is routed to where it is needed. Along the way, ABB’s power conditioning equipment guarantee the highest possible power quality is maintained. Should normal power sources fail at your site, our uninterruptible power supplies are standing by to take over – so seamlessly, you won’t even notice. Get in touch with ABB and find the right resources to help you transform your business. For more information, visit: go.abb/electrification M.C . DEAN INC . Over the next two decades, Dean’s company secured large-scale federal facilities contracts as its client base grew to include the Washington National Airport, Bolling Air Force Base, and the Naval Research Laboratory. By the 1970s, the company was working on complex, secure laboratory and research facilities for the Department of Defense (DOD) and major research universities. The company also designed lighting for some of the capital’s most iconic monuments, including the Washington Monument, the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, and the United States Marine Corps Memorial. Marion C. Dean retired in 1980 and was succeeded by his son Casey, and in 1997, his grandson, Bill, the firm’s current President and CEO. At the turn of the 21st century, M.C. Dean embarked on larger, more sophisticated projects, including environmental remediation, large-scale infrastructure construction, and digitalization implementation. According to Mark Tibbetts, the firm’s global director of capture, during those decades, M.C. Dean was becoming more than just an electrical company. “We started to do more electronic security; more control systems,” he recounts. “And we weren’t just a design-builder of big systems – we also were a service provider. In the large design-build construction world, you work with general contractors. But in the service world, you work directly for the owner. So by diversifying, we were able to sustain our own business by servicing the jobs that we built.” Capitalizing on its preeminence in power, security, and information systems engineering in the 1990s, the company emerged as a cyber-physical leader in the 2000s. It was the first fiber optic 100-Mbps voice, video, and data service provider in the country, and it expanded its expertise in automation for water infrastructure, electrical power monitoring systems, integrated security applications, mission-critical facility controls, and transit applications. In the