Nine schools were designed and built at a cost of $77,000 per school. $2,990 was allocated for the electrical work. Most of these schoolhouses still have the gas piping and electrical connections combined in a common light (wall bracket in stairways and corridors). The gas was ignited in case of emergency power outage, to allow egress from dark buildings. The telephone installations were inside wiremen's work until the IBEW convention in 1918 when a telephone operators department was established. However, as late as 1926, Brother John Cronin installed a private telephone system built by the S. H. Couch Company of Quincy, Mass., in the new Statler Hotel, which after a long court battle, the New England Telephone Company refused to attach outside service. The courts ruled telephone companies did not have to attach service to any private system without their equipment or not wired by telephone installers. One half of the conduit work in new buildings were for telephone wires. After divestiture in 1980, the telephone companies now provide service only, all wiring on the property line is subcontracted by the user.

Many members of Local 103 worked on state, county, and municipal work in the first 15 years after it was chartered. Electrification of factories, offices, schools, streets, trolley lines, water and sewerage pumping plants, and sign wiring for bizans and department stores and advertising signs.

By an Act of 1915, the state of Massachusetts established Laws Relating to Electricians, Chapter 141, General Laws, required electricians to be tested, by written and practical examination, qualifying persons were issued licenses and were bound to obey all codes, rules and regulations in the performance of installing wires and or operating a shop employing electricians installing wiring in Massachusetts. These licenses had to be renewed each year and a list of those licensed was printed. All those electricians who had been installing wiring and employing Journeymen to install wiring were issued licenses under a "Grandfathers Clause." Masters license #1 was issued to Louis Arvedon, 73 Portland Street, Boston.