Commercial
Tenant Improvements
Turn a shell or a vacated space into one that suits the tenant moving in — on the leasing schedule.
Tenant Improvements — what's involved
Tenant improvement work is defined by its deadline. A lease commencement date is fixed, it usually has money attached to it, and the electrical scope sits in the middle of a sequence involving demolition, framing, mechanical, drywall and finishes. Being ready when the ceiling grid goes in, and not a week later, is most of the job.
The electrical scope in a fit-out is rarely a clean start. The previous tenant left circuits feeding equipment that has gone, a lighting layout matching a floor plan that no longer exists, and distribution that may or may not be documented. Electric Shock handles both halves: stripping out what is redundant — safely and traceably, which matters when nothing is labeled — and installing what the incoming tenant actually needs.
Tenant Improvements
Photos of this work will appear here as jobs are documented.
Fit-out electrical scope
- Demolition and safe removal of redundant circuits, fixtures and abandoned cable
- New distribution, sub-panels and feeders for the tenant's layout
- Lighting to the new plan, including ceiling grid coordination and emergency lighting
- Power and data rough-in to partitions, workstations and reception areas
- Dedicated circuits for kitchen, retail, medical or production equipment
- Exit signage and emergency egress lighting to the approved plan
- Metering and sub-metering where tenancies are separately billed
- As-built documentation and panel schedules at handover
The Tenant Improvements process
Survey the existing installation
What is there, what feeds it, and what is genuinely dead. In an undocumented space this comes first, because nothing can be safely removed until it is traced.
Scope against the tenant's plan
The approved layout drives the lighting, the power and the equipment circuits. We identify anything the plan implies but has not specified before it becomes a change order.
Programme with the other trades
Rough-in has to land between framing and drywall, and trim-out after ceilings. We commit to those dates and work to them.
Rough in and inspect
Distribution, circuits and boxes installed and inspected while the walls and ceiling are open.
Trim out and hand over
Devices, fixtures and equipment connections completed, tested, and handed over with panel schedules and as-built information.
What you get out of it
Built to the lease date
The schedule is treated as a commitment, because for the landlord and tenant it genuinely is one.
Redundant circuits properly removed
Abandoned cable traced and taken out rather than capped and forgotten, which is what makes the next fit-out cheaper.
Documentation at handover
Panel schedules and as-builts that match the installed work, so the space is intelligible to whoever comes next.
Tenant Improvements questions
Still not sure? Send us the details and we'll give you a straight answer before anything is booked.
Can you work from an architect's or engineer's drawings?
What about the previous tenant's leftover wiring?
Do you handle sub-metering between tenancies?
Often booked alongside this
- Commercial ElectricalService work, distribution, lighting and power for shops, offices, restaurants and light industrial.
- New Construction WiringFull electrical packages for new builds and additions, from temp power to final trim.
- Lighting Design & RemodelsWhole-room lighting plans for remodels — layers, switching, dimming and control zones.
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