Emergency & exit lighting
Monthly function tests, annual full-duration runs, and replacement of the batteries that fail them. The most commonly cited deficiency we see, because a monthly task is the easiest one to stop doing.
Licensed electrical contractor · NFPA 70E qualified staff
Your building's electrical year, on one page.
Testing, records and certificates for commercial buildings. We tell you what the intervals actually require, do the parts that need an electrician, and hand you the paperwork before anyone asks for it.
Your year
What does your building owe this year?
Select the systems you have. The calendar fills in with the intervals those systems carry, and the summary tells you how many times somebody actually has to be on site — which is a much smaller number than the task count, and the one worth planning around.
4
Jan
1
Feb
1
Mar
1
Apr
1
May
1
Jun
2
Jul
1
Aug
1
Sep
1
Oct
1
Nov
1
Dec
16 scheduled tasks, landing in every month.
12 of those are monthly checks your caretaker can log. We would attend for the other 4.
Book a compliance surveySurvey is free and takes about ninety minutes.
Intervals follow NFPA 101, 72, 110, 70B and 70E as commonly applied. Your authority having jurisdiction or your insurer can require more, and a survey is the only way to know. This is a planning tool, not a compliance determination.
What we test
The work behind the calendar
Infrared surveys
Thermographic scans of switchgear and panelboards under load, which is the only way to find a loose termination before it becomes an outage or a fire. Reported with images and temperature deltas.
Metering & tenant supplies
Multi-tenant buildings where nobody is certain which meter feeds which unit. We trace it, label it, and give you a schedule that survives the next tenant change.
Controls & standby plant
Generator runs, transfer switch operation, and the control circuits that decide whether any of it works at 2am. Tested under load rather than on paper.
Records
The certificate is the product
Anyone can put a meter on a circuit. What you are buying is a record that satisfies an inspector two years from now, when the person who witnessed the test has left.
- 01Issued within five working daysTest results, photographs and the certificate, in your hands before the invoice. If we can't meet that we tell you why on the day.
- 02One register, not a folder of PDFsEvery asset, its last test, its next due date, and who signed it. Exported however your insurer wants it.
- 03Deficiencies quoted separatelyA failed test produces a priced remedial, not a surprise. You are free to have someone else do the fix — the certificate is still yours.
- 04We tell you what you can do yourselvesMonthly function tests are yours to run and log. We will train your caretaker, give you the sheet, and audit it annually. It costs us visits and it is the honest answer.
Firm
Eleven people, all of whom test
No sales team. The person who quotes your building is one of the engineers who will be in it, which is why the quote tends to match the invoice. We work across Chicago and the collar counties on planned schedules rather than callouts, because compliance work is the one part of a building's electrical life that can be booked a year ahead.
- Engineers and testers
11
Engineers and testers
- Buildings on schedule
340
Buildings on schedule
- Certificate turnaround
5 days
Certificate turnaround
They cut our attendance from eleven visits a year to four by handing the monthly light tests back to my own team. That is the opposite of what a contractor usually proposes.
The infrared survey found a termination running forty degrees over ambient on a feeder we had no concerns about. The report was clear enough that my insurer accepted it without a phone call.
Start with a survey, not a contract.
We walk the building, list what you have, and give you the schedule and the price it implies. If you take the schedule to somebody cheaper, that is a reasonable outcome.