Approval responsibility map
Separate contractor licence verification, City of Surrey electrical permits and inspections, BC Hydro connection work and building or strata steps.
Decision file
Record the address, property and unit type, suite or strata context, safely collected service evidence, planned loads, accepted option and utility-owned work assumptions. Use the same dated summary for each City, contractor, strata and BC Hydro enquiry.
Record the proposing contractor's legal name and licence number, then check it in Technical Safety BC's public contractor registry. Keep the dated result tied to the accepted scope without presenting the registry as an endorsement or a guarantee of project performance.
Surrey states that regulated electrical work requires an approved permit unless exempt. Ask who obtains the City electrical permit, what load calculations or related building information are required, who schedules inspections, and which correction and closeout records the owner receives.
Separate the BC Hydro connection request, utility design, customer prerequisites, meter or service work, readiness review, outage and energization. Treat scope, charges and timing as conditional until the utility reviews the property and accepted design.
Record suite, EV, building-permit, fire-separation, structural-penetration, excavation, restoration and strata questions. Surrey's contractor permit guidance identifies different residential building contexts and supporting information, so route the actual project rather than using a generic permit label.
Log the official source, checked date, project facts supplied, written answer, reference number, required document, responsible party and next dependency. Reopen the row when equipment, load, route or property context changes before work is concealed or energized.
Maintain separate columns for Surrey permits, BC Hydro and strata or building decisions, each with project facts, responsible party, submission, prerequisite and response. This prevents a City permit answer from being mistaken for utility or strata approval.
Record the proposing legal name against current TSBC information and define who obtains the electrical permit, arranges inspections, corrects deficiencies and supplies closeout. Keep the evidence tied to the accepted scope.
Use current BC Hydro service-connection information to map application, design, customer work, readiness, outage, meter and energization steps. Confirm requirements and schedule for the actual address before ordering equipment or promising dates.
Maintain distinct Surrey permit, BC Hydro and strata or building columns with identical project facts, current source, checked date, reference, responsible party, prerequisites and next action. Add contractor legal-name evidence, permit and inspection, utility application and design, customer readiness, outage, meter or energization and relevant construction interfaces. Conditional answers remain open, and scope changes trigger recheck. The roadmap assigns process ownership without promising timing or approval and prevents one organization's response from being applied to work controlled by another. Review the roadmap at every submission and readiness milestone, recording the document that actually closed each dependency. Preserve changed utility or authority instructions with their effective dates and affected drawing revision.
Primary references
Links checked in the approved research packet on August 26, 2026. Applicability still depends on the property and proposed scope.