ELECTRICAL PLANS,
REVIEWED & SEALED.
Service sizing, distribution, lighting and life-safety power — checked against the NEC edition your jurisdiction enforces, by an electrical PE licensed to seal there.
Electrical review and sealing means a professional engineer licensed in the project jurisdiction verifies your service and distribution design, load calculations, panel schedules, and lighting against the adopted National Electrical Code and local amendments. A package that meets code is signed and sealed by the responsible PE. A package that doesn't returns with specific, code-cited corrections.
What an electrical review actually covers
Electrical review begins with the load calculation — the one document that decides whether everything downstream is real. The reviewer rebuilds the service or feeder load from the connected loads, demand factors and continuous-load multipliers of the NEC edition in force in your jurisdiction, then traces the distribution: service equipment, feeders, branch circuits, panel schedules, and the fault-current and voltage-drop sanity checks that separate a design from a diagram.
Beyond distribution, the review covers lighting layouts and the energy code's lighting power allowances, emergency and egress lighting power sources, generator and optional standby systems where present, and the special occupancies — healthcare, hazardous locations, assembly — where the NEC stops being a checklist and becomes a discipline. Solar PV, EV charging infrastructure and service upgrades on existing buildings are now routine parts of the packages we see, each with its own article and its own local amendments.
On the checklist
- Service and feeder load calculations (NEC Article 220)
- Panel schedules and circuiting vs. calculated loads
- Available fault current and equipment ratings
- Lighting layouts and energy-code power allowances
- Emergency, egress and standby power provisions
- Grounding and bonding
- PV, EV-charging and service-upgrade packages
- Local amendments to the adopted NEC edition
Who sends us electrical plans
Electrical contractors engineering design-build work, solar and EV-infrastructure firms building outside their PE's license footprint, and design teams holding a permit deadline in a state where their electrical engineer isn't licensed. Restaurants, tenant improvements, warehouse power and light-industrial services dominate the flow — real engineering, done by people who know the work, waiting on a seal their jurisdiction will accept.
The sealing PE's obligation is identical whether they designed the system or reviewed it: the sealed set is their professional work. Expect the reviewer to recompute the loads, not skim them — and to flag the things a plans examiner would flag, while they're still cheap to change.
Corrections we see most
Load calculations that use the wrong NEC edition's demand factors — or a neighboring jurisdiction's amendments. Panel schedules that don't reconcile with the one-line. Lighting power densities that blow the energy budget in jurisdictions that enforce it at permit. Service equipment rated below the available fault current. These are exactly the findings a permit reviewer is paid to catch; catching them first, in writing, is the service.
Cost & timeline
Electrical review pricing follows the package: service size, distribution depth, whether load calculations arrive complete, special occupancies, and PV/EV scope. There is no honest per-sheet number for a service upgrade with a fault-current problem hiding in it — so we scope it. Complete sets get a written quote before the review is scheduled.
Every engagement is quoted in writing with its own timeline before work starts — an estimate built from your package's actual scope, stated per engagement rather than promised by slogan. A complete, review-ready set moves first; incomplete sets get a completeness note, so nobody pays to review half a package.