Ground-Up & Major Remodels

Whole-home electrical, from the studs out.

When a home is built once and meant to last a lifetime, the wiring behind the walls deserves the same care as the millwork in front of them. We engineer, install, and commission the complete electrical infrastructure for ground-up custom residences and gut remodels.

Rough-In, DocumentedOpen framing · Stinson Beach residence
The Studio Approach

The best electrical decisions are made before the drywall.

By the time switches and fixtures go in, the truly consequential work is long finished — buried in the framing, the slab, and the service. That is why we ask to be at the table early, alongside the architect and general contractor, while the plans can still accommodate a better idea.

Every custom build is led personally by a master electrician and documented to shop-drawing standard, so what we install is exactly what your team approved — and exactly what the next contractor, a decade on, will be grateful to find.

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The Scope

A complete electrical scope,
start to finish.

Early Coordination

We join the project during design development — reviewing plans with the architect and GC to resolve service location, panel placement, and routing before a single stud is set.

Load Calc & Service Sizing

Detailed load calculations sized for how an estate actually lives — pools, EVs, generators, wellness suites, and shop tools — with headroom built in for what comes next.

Precision Rough-In

Boxes set to consistent heights, home runs labeled, drilling kept off the load path — wiring laid out cleanly enough to photograph before it disappears behind the board.

Structured Wiring

A unified low-voltage backbone — data, coax, audio, and control — terminated to a clean head-end so the home's network and AV systems land on a foundation that holds.

Future-Proofing Conduit

Empty raceways and pull strings to the places technology always migrates — the theater, the gate, the rooftop, the wine room — so tomorrow's upgrade never means tomorrow's demolition.

Trim & Commissioning

Devices, fixtures, and controls installed, every circuit tested, and the system tuned and labeled — handed over with as-builts and a walkthrough your client will remember.

Built With Your Team

We coordinate so nobody has to renegotiate.

On a high-end build, the electrical trade touches everyone — framing, HVAC, plumbing, structural steel, low-voltage, and finish. A can light that lands on a duct, a panel that crowds a return, a slab penetration discovered too late: these are schedule killers, and they are entirely avoidable.

We sit in the coordination meetings, mark up the same set of drawings as everyone else, and walk the site at every critical milestone. The general contractor gets an electrician who protects the schedule; the architect gets one who protects the design intent.

Built for builders
  • Plan reviews and clash detection during design development
  • One point of contact — a master electrician, not a rotating crew
  • Sequenced rough-in that keeps other trades moving
  • Slab and underground coordinated before the pour
  • Fixture and device schedules reconciled with the designer
  • Clean, photographed inspections that pass the first time
From Drawing to Dimmer

How a custom build comes together.

Four phases, each documented and signed off before the next begins. The result is a build that stays on schedule and a home that performs flawlessly at walkthrough — and for the decades that follow.

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Design & Coordination

We review the architectural set, run load calcs, size the service, and resolve routing with every trade before construction begins.

Rough-In

Service, panels, home runs, boxes, and conduit installed in sequence with framing, mechanical, and low-voltage — and documented as built.

Trim

Devices, fixtures, and control hardware set to the designer's schedule once finishes are protected and the home is ready.

Commissioning

Every circuit tested and labeled, scenes programmed, as-builts delivered, and the system walked through with your client.

★★★★★
"A. Wood was in our coordination meetings from schematic design. By the time we framed, every penetration and panel was already resolved — we didn't lose a single day to electrical rework across an eighteen-month build."
Marcus HaldenHalden Build · Montecito
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Planning a ground-up build?

Bring us in early. Share your plans and timeline, and we'll arrange a consultation and a detailed proposal — typically within one week.