A short brief on how Wenner runs the entire technical scope on behalf of the builder — drawn, coordinated, and present at the trades meeting — across the eighty-year heritage of an Island electrical practice.
This document is for the GC, the architect, the interior designer — anyone holding the project together and wondering whether to bring the entire technical scope to one accountable party. It is short by design.
A modern luxury home has eight or nine sub-trades pulling cable through the same walls. Each has its own drawings, its own change-order language, its own schedule. The seams between them are where cost and time leak out.
When the GC manages the technical scope as a stack of independent sub-trades, the architect's set ends up reconciled four ways — once for the AV trade, once for lighting control, once for security, once for networking. Each set is on a different sheet size, on a different revision schedule, with a different RFI process. The lighting trade doesn't know what the AV trade located in the equipment closet. The security panel ends up forty centimetres from the structured cabling rack because nobody drew them at the same scale.
We hold the whole technical scope under one roof. One drawing set. One change-order process. One schedule that reconciles against the master. The trades on site work from a single technology drawing package. The seam between the electrician and the AV trade is no longer where the project bleeds money — it's the seam we own on both sides.
"They run the technology like a real GC runs framing. RFIs come back the same day, change orders are documented before the work starts, and at the end of the job there's a binder. I don't have to chase anyone."
Wenner started in 1945 as an electrical contractor on Vancouver Island. Three generations later, the company you see today is built on the same foundation — careful electrical design and coordination, careful drawings, and being on site when the trades need us.
We are a BC-licensed electrical contractor (LEL0003189). We issue drawings for permit, run the load calculations, lay out the panel schedule, and coordinate the panel locations with the architect's set. The electrical scope is the foundation everything else attaches to — and because we are the electrician as well as the integrator, the seam between those two trades stops being expensive.
Pre-wire and finish electrical can be in-house or subbed to your preferred electrician — your call. Either way, the drawings, the change-order discipline, and the standard are ours. We sit at the trades meetings. We walk the framing. We attend the mechanical coordination meeting because the climate-control integration wants to be drawn alongside the HVAC equipment, not after it.
We're not a stack of resellers. We're a single design and coordination team that holds every technical and electrical scope under one roof — which is why the trades on site only have one set of drawings to follow.
We are most effective when engaged at schematic — early enough to draw the technical scope on the same scale and convention as the architect's set, and lightly, before the project is too crowded for changes to be cheap. Five moments where our involvement matters most.
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Conversations with senior team members are held by the principal directly or by the senior project lead. New principal-to-principal introductions are welcomed.