Engineered for Compliance.
Built for Performance.

Delivering highly sophisticated electrical engineering and electrical design solutions for commercial, institutional, residential, and municipal clients across Ontario.

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Core Capabilities

Technical Precision Across
Every Discipline.

Electrical Permit Drawings Ontario 01
Permits & Compliance

Code Compliance & Permit Drawings

Permit-ready electrical drawings that pass the most demanding municipal reviews — from submission through ESA inspection.

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Power Distribution Panel Upgrades 02
Power Systems

Power Distribution & Panel Upgrades

Load analysis, panel upgrades, feeder coordination, and capacity assessments for medium- and low-voltage distribution systems.

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Interior Lighting Design Commercial 03
Lighting

Interior Lighting Design

Photometric analysis, LED layouts, emergency lighting, and fixture schedules for commercial and institutional spaces.

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Exterior Site Lighting Design Parking Lot 04
Lighting

Exterior & Site Lighting

Parking lot, facade, pathway, and landscape lighting design with photometric compliance and dark-sky standards.

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Fire Alarm System Design Ontario 05
Life Safety

Fire Alarm System Assessment & Design

Life safety system design per CAN/ULC-S524 and OBC. Permit-ready fire alarm submissions with device layouts and riser diagrams.

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Electrical Retrofit Modernization 06
Retrofit

Electrical Retrofit & Modernization

Modernizing legacy electrical infrastructure with resilient, code-compliant power architectures — minimal disruption.

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Custom House Electrical Design Ontario 07
Residential

Custom Residential Design

Full electrical design for custom homes — smart home integration, panel sizing, kitchen circuits, and EV-ready wiring.

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HVAC Electrical Coordination Design 08
Mechanical Coordination

HVAC Electrical Design & Coordination

Motor controls, disconnects, VFDs, and feeder sizing for rooftop units, chillers, and air handling systems.

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EV Charging Station Design Installation 09
Green Energy

EV Charging Infrastructure

Level 2 and Level 3 EV charging design — transformer evaluation, load management, and municipal permitting.

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Solar Panel PV System Electrical Integration 10
Green Energy

Solar Panel & PV Integration

Rooftop to commercial-scale PV systems — grid interconnection, inverter sizing, net metering, and ESA-compliant designs.

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Low Voltage CCTV Data Cabling Design 11
Low Voltage

Low Current Systems

CCTV, security networks, structured cabling, telecom rooms, and access control for institutional and commercial facilities.

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Additional Services

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Our Philosophy

The Standard of
Technical Excellence.

ETEM Engineering delivers uncompromising electrical design strategies tailored precisely for complex institutional, commercial, and municipal environments. We do not engage in generic drafting; we provide direct engineering oversight and targeted retrofit modernization as well as new developments and ground-up projects that ensures every system is resilient, constructible, and strictly aligned with operational budgets.

Our core mandate focuses on rigorous OESC & OBC compliance. By integrating comprehensive technical validation into the earliest design phases, we produce meticulous, permit-ready documentation that reliably passes the most stringent municipal examinations and peer reviews.

Proven Experience Across Ontario

  • — Municipal facilities
  • — School board & institutional projects
  • — Fire stations & public safety buildings
  • — Commercial service upgrades
  • — Commercial fit-out & tenant improvements
  • — Electrical capacity assessments & infrastructure modernization
  • Permit-Ready Documentation
  • Institutional & Municipal Experience
  • OESC / OBC Code Alignment
  • Retrofit & Upgrade Expertise
  • Technical Risk Mitigation
Leadership

ETEM Engineering is led by a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with over a decade of international and Canadian project experience in power distribution, lighting design, life safety systems, and large-scale retrofit coordination.

Every project benefits from direct engineering oversight, ensuring absolute accountability from concept through construction.

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