Commitments And Contingencies	9 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Commitments And Contingencies [Abstract]
Legal Matters	12. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES Legal Matters From time to time we are a party to various claims, lawsuits and other legal proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of business. We maintain various insurance coverages to minimize financial risk associated with these proceedings. None of these proceedings, separately or in the aggregate, are expected to have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows. With respect to all such proceedings, we record reserves when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated. We expense routine legal costs related to these proceedings as they are incurred. The following is a discussion of our significant legal matters: Ward Transformer Site Private Action In April 2009, Carolina Power and Light Company and Consolidation Coal Company filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (Western Division) against a number of entities, including one of our subsidiaries, to recover costs to remove Polychlorinated Byphenyls (“PCB”) contamination at Ward Transformer, an electric transformer resale and reconditioning facility located in Raleigh, North Carolina (the “Private Action”). Plaintiffs had been ordered under a settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) to clean up the onsite contamination, including the groundwater underneath the facility, and were seeking to recover costs associated with the clean-up from other potentially responsible parties (“PRPs”). Plaintiffs allege that our subsidiary had sent transformers to the site prior to our acquisition of the subsidiary. Based on our investigation to date, there is evidence to support our defense that our subsidiary contributed no PCB contamination to the site. As part of a court-ordered mediation process in this litigation, the Company is participating in settlement negotiations with plaintiffs. Based on negotiations to date, the Company expects that any payments associated with settlement of this matter would not result in a material impact on the Company’s results of operations or financial position, and no liability has been accrued as of June 30, 2015. EPA Action Contamination outside of and downstream from the Ward Transformer site is not subject to the Private Action. The EPA has not yet assessed costs for that portion of the remediation, and has not entered into any settlement agreement with any party to begin clean-up. In late 2008, the EPA selected approximately 50 PRPs to which it sent a Special Notice Letter to organize the clean-up of soils and ground water off-site. We were not a recipient of that letter. However, in 2013, the EPA held a settlement conference to discuss potential clean-up and included the 50 letter recipients and other PRPs identified in the Private Action, including the Company. No settlement was reached and the extent of any off- site contamination remains unknown. As of June 30, 2015, we have not recorded a reserve for this matter, as we believe the likelihood of our responsibility for damages is not probable and a potential range of exposure is not estimable. Hamilton Wage and Hour The Company is a defendant in three wage-and-hour suits seeking class action certification that were filed between August 29, 2012 and June 24, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Each of these cases is among several others filed by Plaintiffs’ attorney against contractors working in the Port Arthur, Texas Motiva plant on various projects over the last few years. The claims are based on alleged failure to compensate for time spent bussing to and from a work site, donning safety wear and other activities. In a separate earlier case based on the same allegations, a federal district court ruled that the time spent traveling on the busses is not compensable. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court’s ruling, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review plaintiffs’ appeal of the Fifth Circuit dismissal. To date, no other plaintiffs have joined the suit, and the statute of limitations precludes any new claimants from seeking recovery against the Company, as the Company’s employees stopped working at the project over two years ago. Due to the absence of any exposure beyond the named plaintiffs, and the limited exposure for any time spent bussing into the facility, the Company expects any payments associated with the settlement of this matter would not result in a material impact on the company’s results of operations or financial position. As such, we have not recorded a reserve for this matter as of June 30, 2015. Risk-Management We retain the risk for workers’ compensation, employer’s liability, automobile liability, construction defects, general liability and employee group health claims, as well as pollution coverage, resulting from uninsured deductibles per accident or occurrence which are generally subject to annual aggregate limits. Our general liability program provides coverage for bodily injury and property damage. In many cases, we insure third parties, including general contractors, as additional insureds under our insurance policies. Losses up to the deductible amounts, or losses that are not covered under our policies, are accrued based upon our known claims incurred and an estimate of claims incurred but not reported. As a result, many of our claims are effectively self-insured. Many claims against our insurance are in the form of litigation. At June 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014, we had $3,990 and $4,560, respectively, accrued for insurance liabilities. We are also subject to construction defect liabilities, primarily within our Residential segment. As of June 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014, we had $498 and $569, respectively, reserved for these claims. Because the reserves are based on judgment and estimates, and involve variables that are inherently uncertain, such as the outcome of litigation and an assessment of insurance coverage, there can be no assurance that the ultimate liability will not be higher or lower than such estimates or that the timing of payments will not create liquidity issues for the Company. Some of the underwriters of our casualty insurance program require us to post letters of credit as collateral. This is common in the insurance industry. To date, we have not had a situation where an underwriter has had reasonable cause to effect payment under a letter of credit. At both June 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014, $6,347 of our outstanding letters of credit was utilized to collateralize our insurance program. Surety As of June 30, 2015, the estimated cost to complete our bonded projects was approximately $65,800. We evaluate our bonding requirements on a regular basis, including the terms offered by our sureties. We believe the bonding capacity presently provided by our current sureties is adequate for our current operations and will be adequate for our operations for the foreseeable future. Posting letters of credit in favor of our sureties reduces the borrowing availability under our credit facility. Receivable from Surety During the first quarter of fiscal 2013, we fully reserved for a $1,725 receivable owed to us by a former surety. We subsequently received $550 in recoveries associated with the receivable during 2013, which we classified as other income within our Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the year ended September 30, 2013. We currently do not expect any significant additional recovery of amounts owed to us by this surety. Any potential subsequent recovery will be included in other income. Other Commitments and Contingencies Some of our customers and vendors require us to post letters of credit as a means of guaranteeing performance under our contracts and ensuring payment by us to subcontractors and vendors. If our customer has reasonable cause to effect payment under a letter of credit, we would be required to reimburse our creditor for the letter of credit. At June 30, 2015, $571 of our outstanding letters of credit were to collateralize our vendors. From time to time, we may enter into firm purchase commitments for materials such as copper or aluminum wire which we expect to use in the ordinary course of business. These commitments are typically for terms of less than one year and require us to buy minimum quantities of materials at specific intervals at a fixed price over the term. As of June 30, 2015, we had a $112 commitment outstanding for the purchase of copper wire. We expect this wire to be purchased and used within the current fiscal year.

Commitments And Contingencies

9 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2015

Commitments And Contingencies [Abstract]

12. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Legal Matters

From time to time we are a party to various claims, lawsuits and other legal proceedings that arise in the ordinary course of business. We maintain various insurance coverages to minimize financial risk associated with these proceedings. None of these proceedings, separately or in the aggregate, are expected to have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations or cash flows. With respect to all such proceedings, we record reserves when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount of loss can be reasonably estimated. We expense routine legal costs related to these proceedings as they are incurred.

The following is a discussion of our significant legal matters:

Ward Transformer Site

Private Action

In April 2009, Carolina Power and Light Company and Consolidation Coal Company filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina (Western Division) against a number of entities, including one of our subsidiaries, to recover costs to remove Polychlorinated Byphenyls (“PCB”) contamination at Ward Transformer, an electric transformer resale and reconditioning facility located in Raleigh, North Carolina (the “Private Action”). Plaintiffs had been ordered under a settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (the “EPA”) to clean up the onsite contamination, including the groundwater underneath the facility, and were seeking to recover costs associated with the clean-up from other potentially responsible parties (“PRPs”). Plaintiffs allege that our subsidiary had sent transformers to the site prior to our acquisition of the subsidiary. Based on our investigation to date, there is evidence to support our defense that our subsidiary contributed no PCB contamination to the site. As part of a court-ordered mediation process in this litigation, the Company is participating in settlement negotiations with plaintiffs. Based on negotiations to date, the Company expects that any payments associated with settlement of this matter would not result in a material impact on the Company’s results of operations or financial position, and no liability has been accrued as of June 30, 2015.

EPA Action

Contamination outside of and downstream from the Ward Transformer site is not subject to the Private Action. The EPA has not yet assessed costs for that portion of the remediation, and has not entered into any settlement agreement with any party to begin clean-up. In late 2008, the EPA selected approximately 50 PRPs to which it sent a Special Notice Letter to organize the clean-up of soils and ground water off-site. We were not a recipient of that letter. However, in 2013, the EPA held a settlement conference to discuss potential clean-up and included the 50 letter recipients and other PRPs identified in the Private Action, including the Company. No settlement was reached and the extent of any off- site contamination remains unknown. As of June 30, 2015, we have not recorded a reserve for this matter, as we believe the likelihood of our responsibility for damages is not probable and a potential range of exposure is not estimable.

Hamilton Wage and Hour

The Company is a defendant in three wage-and-hour suits seeking class action certification that were filed between August 29, 2012 and June 24, 2013, in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Each of these cases is among several others filed by Plaintiffs’ attorney against contractors working in the Port Arthur, Texas Motiva plant on various projects over the last few years. The claims are based on alleged failure to compensate for time spent bussing to and from a work site, donning safety wear and other activities. In a separate earlier case based on the same allegations, a federal district court ruled that the time spent traveling on the busses is not compensable. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the district court’s ruling, and the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review plaintiffs’ appeal of the Fifth Circuit dismissal.

To date, no other plaintiffs have joined the suit, and the statute of limitations precludes any new claimants from seeking recovery against the Company, as the Company’s employees stopped working at the project over two years ago. Due to the absence of any exposure beyond the named plaintiffs, and the limited exposure for any time spent bussing into the facility, the Company expects any payments associated with the settlement of this matter would not result in a material impact on the company’s results of operations or financial position. As such, we have not recorded a reserve for this matter as of June 30, 2015.

Risk-Management

We retain the risk for workers’ compensation, employer’s liability, automobile liability, construction defects, general liability and employee group health claims, as well as pollution coverage, resulting from uninsured deductibles per accident or occurrence which are generally subject to annual aggregate limits. Our general liability program provides coverage for bodily injury and property damage. In many cases, we insure third parties, including general contractors, as additional insureds under our insurance policies. Losses up to the deductible amounts, or losses that are not covered under our policies, are accrued based upon our known claims incurred and an estimate of claims incurred but not reported. As a result, many of our claims are effectively self-insured. Many claims against our insurance are in the form of litigation. At June 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014, we had $3,990 and $4,560, respectively, accrued for insurance liabilities. We are also subject to construction defect liabilities, primarily within our Residential segment. As of June 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014, we had $498 and $569, respectively, reserved for these claims. Because the reserves are based on judgment and estimates, and involve variables that are inherently uncertain, such as the outcome of litigation and an assessment of insurance coverage, there can be no assurance that the ultimate liability will not be higher or lower than such estimates or that the timing of payments will not create liquidity issues for the Company.

Some of the underwriters of our casualty insurance program require us to post letters of credit as collateral. This is common in the insurance industry. To date, we have not had a situation where an underwriter has had reasonable cause to effect payment under a letter of credit. At both June 30, 2015 and September 30, 2014, $6,347 of our outstanding letters of credit was utilized to collateralize our insurance program.

Surety

As of June 30, 2015, the estimated cost to complete our bonded projects was approximately $65,800. We evaluate our bonding requirements on a regular basis, including the terms offered by our sureties. We believe the bonding capacity presently provided by our current sureties is adequate for our current operations and will be adequate for our operations for the foreseeable future. Posting letters of credit in favor of our sureties reduces the borrowing availability under our credit facility.

Receivable from Surety

During the first quarter of fiscal 2013, we fully reserved for a $1,725 receivable owed to us by a former surety. We subsequently received $550 in recoveries associated with the receivable during 2013, which we classified as other income within our Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income for the year ended September 30, 2013. We currently do not expect any significant additional recovery of amounts owed to us by this surety. Any potential subsequent recovery will be included in other income.

Other Commitments and Contingencies

Some of our customers and vendors require us to post letters of credit as a means of guaranteeing performance under our contracts and ensuring payment by us to subcontractors and vendors. If our customer has reasonable cause to effect payment under a letter of credit, we would be required to reimburse our creditor for the letter of credit. At June 30, 2015, $571 of our outstanding letters of credit were to collateralize our vendors.

From time to time, we may enter into firm purchase commitments for materials such as copper or aluminum wire which we expect to use in the ordinary course of business. These commitments are typically for terms of less than one year and require us to buy minimum quantities of materials at specific intervals at a fixed price over the term. As of June 30, 2015, we had a $112 commitment outstanding for the purchase of copper wire. We expect this wire to be purchased and used within the current fiscal year.