The technology
partner the
design team
asks for by name.
For three generations we've designed and integrated the systems inside Vancouver Island's most considered homes — electrical, lighting, AV, automation, security, climate. We work in close coordination with the architect, the interior designer and the general contractor, from the first set of drawings through the final commissioning.
Architect, designer, contractor, client.
We work for all of them.
A luxury or ultra-luxury home is the product of a small group of people who trust each other — the architect, the interior designer, the builder, and the client at the centre of it. We've spent eighty years learning where technology fits in that conversation, and how to keep it from getting in the way.
Drawings that respect yours.
Our RCPs overlay your set, on the same scale, in the same convention. BC-licensed electrical contractor on staff. Permittable drawings, not just reference.
For Architects →Technology that disappears.
Speakers behind plaster. Keypads in your metal palette. Fabric drapery on motorised tracks. The room you drew is the room they live in.
For Designers →One sub-trade, every technical scope.
Pre-wire, conduit, panel locations, equipment closets — coordinated before the walls close. Pre-wire in-house or subbed to your preferred electrician — your call. One number for everything else. RFIs answered same day.
For Builders →One relationship. Forever.
From the day we're brought in, through the build, through the years after — one team. Every system in the house, on one platform, watched continuously through WennerCare.
WennerCare →The projects that go well almost always have all four of these people in the room early — and we work hard to be the connective tissue between them.
A room is worth a thousand renderings.
The fastest way for a client — or a design team — to understand what we do is to stand inside it. Our Experience Centres in Nanaimo and Victoria are working homes in miniature: lighting scenes you can dim, audio you can switch from room to room, shading and drapery on live tracks, and our automation interfaces running on the same hardware you'd put in a house.
Bring your client. Bring your architect. We'll set aside an hour, dim the room, and walk through what's possible — with no obligation to do anything next.
Tues – Fri, by appointment
By appointment
Ten disciplines.
One coordinated set
of drawings.
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.
Electrical Design & Coordination
Electrical drawings, panel schedules, load calculations, code review. BC-licensed electrical contractor on staff. Our electrical practice is the foundation everything else attaches to.
Architectural Lighting
Layered lighting design, fixture specification, scene programming. We work with your designer's selections and fill in the rest.
Audio & Video
Whole-home distributed audio, dedicated theatres, listening rooms, family rooms that work for the kids. Reference-grade, but not precious about it.
Home Automation & Control
Crestron and Lutron — chosen to fit the house, not the other way around. Programmed by people who live with these systems daily.
Shading & Drapery
Motorised shades and drapery with full design coordination — fabrics, hardware, side channels, headers — selected to disappear into the architecture.
Security & Surveillance
Two tiers. Wenner for luxury custom homes — security integrated into the Crestron platform alongside lighting, AV, and climate. SmartSecure for more approachable installs — packaged alarm, cameras, and access for custom homes through entry-level. Monitoring is dispatched by a local Canadian ULC-listed station regardless of tier.
Networking
The substrate every other system depends on. Ubiquiti and Araknis where they fit best. Wired, wireless, redundant where it matters, and quiet about it.
Climate Control & Integration
We coordinate the integration plan for your climate system — controls, zoning, thermostats, scenes — and bring it into the wider home automation. The hardware is supplied by your mechanical trade; the integration is ours.
Generators & Energy
Standby power, solar and battery — coordinated so the house stays running, quietly, when conditions change.
Golf Simulators
Dedicated simulator rooms with launch-monitor systems, projector and screen, audio and lighting integration — designed in at the architectural stage.
We manage the entire electrical scope
on behalf of the builder.
A modern luxury home has eight or nine sub-trades pulling cable through the same walls. We hold them all to a single set of standards — drawings, change orders, schedule, RFIs, commissioning — so the general contractor gets one accountable party for everything that ends in a wire.
Keep your electrician.
Borrow our standards.
You can keep your trusted electrician — we'll fold them into the same drawing set, RFI process, and change-order discipline we use across every other technical trade. Or we'll subcontract the electrical for you. Your call.
One drawing set,
one source of truth.
Every cable, every device, every system on a single coordinated set. No reconciling four different sub-trade markups against your RCP — the conversation happens before paper hits site.
No finger-pointing.
Ever.
When the lighting and the audio and the shades and the HVAC all share a control system, the question of "whose fault is this?" stops being interesting. It's our scope. We answer for it.
| Sub-trade / System | Drawings | Submittals | RFIs & COs | Schedule | Site Walks | Commissioning |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electrical (line voltage) Pre-wire in-house or subbed — client choice | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Architectural lighting & control | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Audio, video & theatre | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Networking & IT | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Security, surveillance & access | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Shading, drapery & motorisation | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Fire & life-safety | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| HVAC & climate integration Equipment by mech. trade | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Pool, spa & water-feature ctrl | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Patio heat & outdoor systems | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
| Generators & energy storage | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● | ● |
We're one of the few firms in the world that understands the electrical trade as deeply as the systems that ride on it — which is the only way to guarantee compatibility and integration across the whole house.
CEDIA Award winner — Best Ultra-Luxury Home, Americas.
Electrical design & coordination, lighting, A/V, control, networking, security, shading, climate integration, generators & energy, golf simulators — under one roof.
Continuity through WennerCare — the same team for the life of the home.
From first set of drawings
to forever.
A call, then a visit.
A short video call to understand the project, then a visit to one of our centres with the team — architect, designer, contractor, client. Part of how we work.
Drawings & coordination.
One of three Design Packages — Foundation, Premier, Estate — produces the technology drawing set the trades will build from.
Coordinated install.
We're on site through framing, rough-in, finish and commissioning. The integrator scope shows up exactly where it was drawn.
WennerCare, for the life of the home.
One number to call. Proactive monitoring through WennerCare. Same-day response from a team that knows the property.
"They were the only sub-trade who showed up at the design meetings with their own drawings. By the time we broke ground, the technology scope was already solved."
Architects, designers,
and builders we've worked
with on real projects.
Some of these firms we've contracted directly with. Others we've shared a job site with — the architect specifying, the GC building, Wenner integrating. Every name below is connected to a project we've actually worked on. If you're working with one of them, we're probably already in your phone.
Listed firms have been engaged with, or alongside, Wenner on actual projects.
Three companies. One standard.
Designing and integrating Vancouver Island's most considered homes since 1945.
Alarm, access control, and surveillance across Vancouver Island. Monitoring dispatched by a local Canadian ULC-listed station.
Consulting on smart home architecture for global high-net-worth clients.
A Wenner Group company Looking for monitored security only? Our sister service provides 24/7 monitored alarms, video, and access control across Vancouver Island — backed by the same standard as the rest of the practice.
Visit SmartSecure →A handful of recent
projects.
Interiors · HB Design CEDIA Qualia 2023 award winner. Full Crestron home automation, architectural lighting, and integrated AV.
View case study →
Builder · Mac Construction A 6,000 sq ft modernist coastal residence — full Crestron integration with a custom Intuitiv interface, dedicated theatre, distributed AV, and architectural lighting throughout.
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Builder · NZ Builders A landmark seaside build on Beach Drive — modern envelope, layered lighting and shading, and a quiet whole-home audio scheme integrated by the Wenner team.
View case study →However you'd like to begin.
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Nanaimo: 250.758.2231
Victoria: 250.386.2231
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