Commercial Electrical Services Toronto
The power scope that sits around technology infrastructure — comms room circuits, rack and UPS power, receptacles where the equipment actually goes — planned alongside the cabling instead of after it.
Velocity Cabling delivers commercial electrical work as part of the wider infrastructure scope on Toronto and GTA projects. We are not trying to be your general electrical contractor for a whole building. What we do is take on the power that surrounds technology — comms rooms, racks, equipment positions, cameras and door hardware — so it is designed and sequenced with the low voltage scope rather than negotiated between two trades after the fact.
Power And Cabling Are One Design Problem
On paper they are separate. Electrical is CSI Division 26. Communications is Division 27, and electronic security is Division 28. Different divisions, usually different subcontractors, often different bid packages.
In the building they are the same ceiling, the same walls and the same comms room. Every technology decision has a power consequence, and every power decision constrains the technology. When those are owned by two parties, the gaps between them become somebody's change order — usually yours.
What one contract actually buys you. One survey instead of two. One containment plan sized for power and low voltage together. One schedule, so the cabling crew is not waiting on circuits that are not in yet. One party accountable when a camera position has no power. And one closeout package rather than two partial ones in different formats.
Five Collisions That Cost Real Money
These are the ones we are called in to resolve, and every one of them is avoidable at design stage.
1. The comms room with no dedicated circuit
A rack of switches, an NVR and a UPS get installed on whatever receptacle happened to be in the room, shared with lighting or an office circuit next door. It works until someone plugs in a heater. Comms rooms need dedicated circuits sized for the actual load with headroom, and that has to be decided when the room is designed, not when the rack arrives.
2. Receptacles in the wrong place
Power gets installed to the wall, then the racks land somewhere else, and you end up with extension leads across a comms room floor. Receptacle positions should follow the rack layout, including whether feeds come from above or below, which is a conversation between the two scopes rather than a guess by one.
3. Cameras and doors where PoE will not reach
Most cameras and readers run happily on PoE. Some do not — heated PTZ cameras, gate operators, mag locks with high holding force, powered barriers. Those need local power at positions chosen for coverage, not for proximity to an outlet. Finding that out after the camera schedule is approved is expensive.
4. Containment fighting for the same space
Power conduit and low-voltage cable tray compete for the same route, and Class 2 low voltage has to be kept properly separated from power wiring. When the two trades plan independently, whoever installs second discovers the route is taken and either re-routes at cost or compromises the separation.
5. Panel capacity discovered at the wrong moment
Adding a comms room, a large PoE load or a bank of chargers to a panel already near capacity is a problem best found at survey. It is a bad surprise during commissioning and a worse one at inspection.
Planning a fit-out with both scopes in it?
We survey power and cabling together and give you one itemized proposal covering both, so the interfaces are priced rather than assumed.
What The Electrical Scope Covers
Comms room and rack power
Dedicated circuits, sub-panels where needed, UPS feeds and rack PDU supply sized for the equipment plus headroom. Pairs with data centre cabling.
Dedicated circuits and sub-panels
New circuits for technology loads, sub-panels where the distance or load justifies one, and honest assessment of existing panel capacity first.
Fit-out electrical
Receptacles at workstations and equipment positions, floor boxes, meeting and AV room power, and lighting or lighting control changes that come with a layout change.
Power for security systems
Local power where PoE will not do the job: heated PTZ cameras, gate operators, powered door hardware. Coordinated with CCTV and access control.
Conduit and containment
Power containment planned alongside low-voltage pathway so the routes and separation are resolved on paper rather than in the ceiling.
Industrial and warehouse
Power to high-bay equipment positions, dock areas and yard infrastructure, sequenced around an operation that cannot simply stop.
Where This Works Best
Where cabling, power, lighting and AV all land in the same six weeks and the schedule has no slack for handoffs.
New or rebuilt server rooms, where power, cooling load, racks and cabling are one design rather than four.
Camera and access control projects with a handful of positions that need real power rather than PoE.
Where cameras, wireless, tray and power all share high-bay routes.
Identical scope across locations, where consistency between sites matters more than shaving a line item.
Occupied buildings needing planned, brief, agreed outages rather than open-ended disruption.
Commercial Electrical: Common Questions
Because on most commercial projects the two scopes collide, and the collisions are expensive. Comms rooms need dedicated circuits, racks need receptacles in specific places, cameras and access control need power where PoE will not reach, and containment for power and low voltage competes for the same ceiling. Running both under one contract means those decisions get made once, by people who know both sides.
The commercial power scope that sits around technology infrastructure: dedicated circuits and sub-panels for comms rooms, UPS and rack power, receptacles at equipment positions, conduit and containment, lighting and lighting control changes during fit-outs, and power for cameras, gates, door hardware and AV where PoE is not sufficient.
That is usually the point of asking us. A typical scope is structured cabling, fiber, CCTV, access control and the electrical work around them, delivered on one schedule with one point of contact and one set of as-builts at close-out.
Power work is sequenced so outages are planned, brief and agreed in writing beforehand. Evening, overnight and weekend work is routine. On live facilities we identify what each circuit actually feeds before anything is isolated, rather than relying on a panel schedule that may be years out of date.
Yes. We price from Division 26 documents alongside the Division 27 and 28 scope, attend site meetings and submit closeout documentation in the format the specification asks for.
Yes, and it is worth doing before you plan a fit-out. Adding a comms room, a bank of chargers or a significant PoE load to a panel that is already close to capacity is the kind of problem best discovered at survey rather than at inspection.
Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Vaughan, Markham, Scarborough, Etobicoke, Oakville, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Whitby and Pickering. Crews dispatch from our Toronto base at 60 Atlantic Avenue.
Last reviewed 12 August 2026.
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