Verify the Electrical and Service-Connection Workflow

Freeze project facts

Record property type, suite or strata context, planned loads, proposed equipment and whether utility-owned work may be involved.

Verify contractor requirements

Use current Technical Safety BC sources for the legal name, licensing or qualification evidence and work scope.

Map permit and inspection

Ask who obtains permits, which work is inspected, dependencies, corrections and documents supplied at closeout.

Map BC Hydro steps

Separate application, design, customer work, meter or service work, scheduling and outage responsibilities.

Add City and building interfaces

Record structural penetrations, fire separations, suite, strata, EV and restoration questions that may trigger other review.

Maintain a dated register

Log authority, source, date, input supplied, answer, required document, dependency and owner.

Verify the electrical work route

Use current Technical Safety BC information to record contractor legal name, permit responsibility, inspection stages and required closeout. Keep verification dated and tied to the proposed scope rather than relying on advertising claims.

• Match names to current records
• Identify permit applicant
• Retain inspection documentation

Open a BC Hydro dependency log

Separate application, design review, customer construction, readiness evidence, outage, meter and service work. Record the utility reference and prerequisites, while treating scheduling and final requirements as project-specific until confirmed.

• Name customer-owned prerequisites
• Log utility correspondence
• Recheck after scope revisions

Coordinate building interfaces

Add City, strata, fire-separation, structural penetration, excavation, parking and restoration questions where the selected route touches them. Link every answer to the same capacity option and drawing revision to avoid mixing incompatible approval paths.

• Track common-property decisions
• Assign fire-stopping evidence
• Close every open dependency

Close the authority and utility dependency log

Maintain separate rows for contractor licence evidence, applicable permit and inspection, City or building interfaces, BC Hydro application and design, customer prerequisites, outage, meter or service work and final records. Each row needs project facts, source, checked date, reference, responsible party and next action. Conditional or preliminary responses stay open until evidence closes them, and scope changes trigger recheck. The completed log shows process ownership without promising utility scheduling, permit acceptance or energization, and prevents one authority’s answer from being misapplied to another part of the project.

• Verify current TSBC evidence
• Log BC Hydro references
• Separate municipal interfaces
• Track customer prerequisites
• Archive completion records