Custom Electric
Capabilities
Integrated Electrical Solutions for Complex Projects
Custom Electric delivers large-scale electrical system installations across commercial, industrial, and institutional projects, with a consistent focus on integration, coordination, and execution. From early-stage collaboration through final commissioning, our role is to strengthen project outcomes, reduce risk, and maintain alignment across all stakeholders.
Transparency From the Outset
Preconstruction & Cost Estimation
Custom Electric brings dedicated preconstruction expertise to every project engagement, providing detailed, transparent cost planning from early design through to contract award. Our philosophy is open-book budgeting, and accordingly, our team develops progressive estimates that evolve alongside the design, tying financial alignment to every preconstruction phase.
Our preconstruction process includes line-item budgets with clear breakdowns for materials, labour, general conditions, and contingencies. As design intent is confirmed, we transition seamlessly from detailed open-book budgets to lump-sum or GMP contract formats, providing cost certainty without surprises.
Coordination & Collaboration That Start Before Construction
BIM & VDC Coordination
Custom Electric’s BIM and Virtual Design and Construction capabilities are integrated into our preconstruction and construction processes from the outset. Our team uses three-dimensional modeling to identify conflicts early, coordinate across disciplines, and reduce the risk of costly rework in the field.
By resolving constructability issues before they materialize on site, we protect the schedule, reduce waste, and ensure installations proceed with precision and efficiency. Our BIM capabilities support clash detection, prefabrication planning, and seamless coordination with owners, consultants, and other trades.
Efficiency and quality are integrated before reaching the site
Prefabrication & Modularization
Custom Electric integrates prefabrication strategies early in the design process, identifying components suitable for off-site assembly to streamline construction sequencing and reduce field labour costs. By shifting assembly and fabrication tasks to our controlled prefabrication facility, we improve quality, enhance on-site efficiency, and add certainty to the project’s schedule and budget.
Our prefabrication capabilities are developed in close coordination with our BIM team, ensuring that modular assemblies are fabricated with precision, delivered, and installed without disruption to the broader project schedule.
Early Collaboration Strengthens Outcomes
Design Assist
Unified Delivery Through Integrated Execution
Design Build
Shared Insights. Collaborative Delivery. Shared Outcomes.
Lean IPD – Integrated Project Delivery
Custom Electric is an experienced participant in Lean Integrated Project Delivery projects. In recent years, our IPD team has contributed to some of Alberta’s most complex IPD projects, including the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo Wild Canada redevelopment. In an IPD environment, we operate as a fully integrated member of a unified project team, sharing risk, aligning incentives, and working toward common outcomes rather than individual contract interests.
Our approach to IPD is grounded in transparency, early engagement, and a genuine commitment to the collaborative principles that make IPD delivery work. We bring preconstruction expertise, BIM coordination capability, and field execution experience to the integrated team from day one, supporting informed decision-making and efficient delivery across all project phases.
Structured Execution with Financial Certainty
Stipulated Sum & GMP Contracts
Custom Electric regularly delivers projects under stipulated lump sum and guaranteed maximum price contract models. Our depth of preconstruction experience and field execution capability allows us to enter these contract structures with confidence, managing financial expectations with precision while maintaining the flexibility required to navigate the realities of large-scale construction.
For owners seeking cost certainty, our ability to transition directly from an open-book preconstruction engagement to a GMP contract is a particular advantage — eliminating a lengthy tender process while preserving transparency on how the budget was formulated.
Scalable Leadership Across Complex Builds
Construction Management
Our teams are structured to support construction management delivery at any scale, providing the supervision, workforce, and systems required to maintain quality and coordination throughout the project lifecycle. Whether contributing within a broader construction management framework or leading electrical execution directly, Custom Electric brings consistency and reliability to every phase of the work.
Control Over Quality, Cost, and Schedule
Self-Performance
Custom Electric self-performs all base electrical work, maintaining direct control over quality, workforce, and schedule throughout the project. This approach eliminates the variability that comes with subcontracting core scopes, giving owners and construction managers greater confidence in delivery certainty.
Where specialized scopes require the involvement of trade contractors, such as structured cabling or other specialty systems, Custom Electric manages those relationships directly and applies the same quality, safety, and coordination standards we hold internally.