High-tier electrical engineering forms the backbone of safe, resilient, highly efficient facilities — power, lighting, low-voltage, solar and EV, built to North American codes.
Our core engineering services for the US and Canadian markets focus heavily on high-tier electrical engineering. From complex power distribution to sophisticated fault analysis, our electrical design assist integrates seamlessly into your internal workflows — anticipating spatial or load conflicts before they reach construction.
Because electrical is our only discipline, every engagement gets specialist depth — from NEC load calculations and lighting energy compliance to solar PV and EV charging infrastructure. Our North American partners scale their electrical capacity up and down without compromising on precision or code compliance.
Power, lighting, low-voltage, solar & EV design.
Learn more →Visual Lighting & DIALux to IECC and IESNA.
Learn more →Revit, Navisworks & BIM 360 electrical models.
Learn more →NEC loads, voltage drop, fault current, solar & EV.
Learn more →Power, lighting, single-line & riser CAD content.
Learn more →PE seal/sign, conversions, compliance & QA/QC.
Learn more →While North America and Oceania sleep, SYMATEQ works. Our delivery hub links to the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand — so your electrical drawings and BIM models move forward overnight, every night.
Yes. Canadian projects are produced to CSA C22.1, the Canadian Electrical Code Part I, with the amendments of the province the project sits in. US projects are produced to the NEC. These are different codes with different rules, tables and terminology — a project is designed to one or the other, never to a blend of the two.
Provinces adopt CSA C22.1 with their own amendments rather than adopting it unchanged. Ontario work follows the Ontario Electrical Safety Code, administered by the Electrical Safety Authority; Quebec follows the electricity chapter of the provincial construction code; British Columbia, Alberta and the rest each adopt the CE Code with their own amendments and adoption dates. We confirm the governing edition for the specific jurisdiction before design begins.
More than most teams expect. The NEC is organised into Articles, the CE Code into Sections and Rules, so calculation references do not translate. Ampacity tables, demand factor rules, bonding and grounding terminology and conductor identification all differ, and the CE Code is metric-first. A set produced to the NEC is not a compliant Canadian set — converting one to the other is re-engineering, not relabelling.
Lighting power and control requirements generally follow the National Energy Code of Canada for Buildings (NECB), or a provincial energy code where one has been adopted. That is a different document from the IECC and ASHRAE 90.1 used in the US, so lighting power density targets are checked against the Canadian requirement rather than carried across from a US project.
Professional engineering licensure in Canada is provincial, and sealing is done by an engineer licensed in the province where the project is located. In the usual arrangement we produce the engineering and documentation, and your engineer of record reviews and seals it.
Yes, and we work in whichever the jurisdiction and your standards call for. US documentation is produced in imperial, Canadian documentation metric-first in line with the CE Code. Mixed-unit sets are a common source of coordination error, so units are agreed at the start of the project rather than converted at the end.
Code editions and provincial amendments change on their own cycles — the governing edition is confirmed per jurisdiction at project start.
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