Charlotte’s Commercial Electrical Remodeling Contractor
Uptown tenant upfits, South End and NoDa fit-ups, and panel and lighting reworks wired around your business hours. Bobby Shaver is the engineer and the tradesman on the job, so the plan and the install stay on the same page in the field.
The space is changing. The wiring has to change with it.
Charlotte’s commercial corridors keep turning over faster than almost anywhere in the Carolinas. An uptown office tower splits a floor into small-business suites, a South End mill building takes on a new brewery or restaurant tenant, a NoDa storefront changes hands, or a flex warehouse off the I-85 corridor adds equipment. Every one of those changes carries an electrical scope, and the wiring that fit the old use rarely fits the new one. That is the work Bobby Shaver does: taking a Charlotte space that is changing and making sure the power, panels, circuits, and lighting change with it, on permit and on schedule.
The thing that separates 310 Construction on a commercial remodel is that Bobby is both the engineer and the licensed tradesman on the job. On a lot of upfits the electrical drawings and the field install drift apart, because the person who drew it up is not the person landing the wire. Here they are the same person. The plan reflects what actually gets built, the load calculations are run against the real new use, and the coordination with the GC, the landlord or property manager, and the other trades holds together, which matters on a tight uptown build calendar where a blown inspection stalls the whole job.
A remodel is also the natural moment to fix the panel. If the new layout adds kitchen loads for a restaurant, more circuits for a coworking floor, HVAC, or EV charging, the service often needs a subpanel or an upgrade to carry it. Bobby runs that calculation up front so the panel is not the thing that trips a year after the space reopens. And because occupied Charlotte businesses can rarely go fully dark, the power-off and loud phases get scheduled after hours or on weekends, planned and communicated instead of sprung on the tenant.
Sequencing is where an upfit is won or lost, and it is easy to get wrong. The electrical work lands in two phases that have to fall in the right order against the rest of the trades. The rough-in, the conduit, the boxes, the home runs back to the panel, has to be roughed and inspected before the drywall crew closes the walls, because a missed circuit found after the walls are up means cutting open finished work and re-inspecting. The finish, the devices, the fixtures, and the final panel connections, comes after the ceilings and walls are in and gets timed toward the certificate of occupancy. On a tight South End or uptown calendar, the trade that stalls the whole job is usually the one whose rough-in was not ready when the drywallers arrived. Because Bobby is coordinating his own rough-in against the GC’s schedule rather than handing a drawing to a separate crew, that hand-off holds, and the drywall goes up on the day it was supposed to.
Call (704) 575-9463 or reach out online to scope the project. See finished commercial work on the project gallery.
Walk-through and load calc
Bobby reviews the drawings and the new use, runs the load calculation, and flags whether the existing service can carry the upfit.
Permit and coordination
The permit is pulled through the City of Charlotte or Mecklenburg County and the schedule coordinated with the GC, landlord, and other trades.
Rough-in and finish
Circuits, panels, and lighting are roughed in before drywall and finished on schedule, with power-off phases planned around business hours.
Inspection and CO
The inspections are scheduled and passed so the electrical scope is not the thing holding up the certificate of occupancy.
Commercial reworks for Charlotte spaces
Uptown Tenant Upfits
A new small-business tenant in an uptown Charlotte suite needs the electrical scope built to their layout and use. Bobby wires the upfit from the drawings and coordinates the CO.
Restaurant and Brewery Fit-Ups
South End and NoDa kitchen loads, tap and cooler circuits, and point-of-sale power add up fast. Bobby sizes and lands them so the space opens ready and inspected.
Office and Coworking Reconfigs
Splitting, combining, or reworking Charlotte office suites means moving circuits, data-adjacent power, and lighting. Bobby reworks it cleanly on permit.
Panel and Service Reworks
When the new use outgrows the panel, Bobby adds a subpanel or upgrades the service so the remodel is not running against a maxed-out board.
Lighting Redesign
An upfit is the time to move to efficient LED layouts, add controls, and fix the dim or dated lighting the previous tenant left behind.
Medical and Salon Fit-Ups
Dental, medical, and salon spaces carry specific equipment loads and dedicated circuits. Bobby scopes them to the equipment list and to code.
Charlotte’s commercial spaces turn over fast, and the wiring has to keep up
Between the uptown office and coworking scene, the South End and NoDa restaurant and retail boom, and the flex and warehouse space in the industrial corridors, Mecklenburg County has one of the busiest streams of upfits and fit-ups in the region. The businesses that open on time are the ones whose electrical scope was planned, permitted, and coordinated, not improvised after the walls went up.
The specialty fit-ups are the ones where the load calc earns its keep. A dental or medical suite carries dedicated circuits for chairs, sterilizers, and imaging gear that a general office never saw. A brewery or taproom on a South End or NoDa mill floor stacks glycol chillers, tap systems, and kitchen loads onto a service that was sized for something quieter. A salon runs a bank of stations and dryers. In each case the equipment list, not the square footage, is what sets the electrical scope, and pricing it off floor area the way a generic bid does is how a panel ends up maxed the month the space opens. Bobby scopes those fit-ups to the actual equipment schedule and to code, so the circuits are dedicated where they need to be and the service carries the real draw.
Bobby works Charlotte, Mint Hill, Matthews, Pineville, and the surrounding Mecklenburg County commercial market from the Norwood base, inside the 50-mile radius. Bring the drawings early and the scope stays ahead of the schedule. Call (704) 575-9463 or contact us online to walk the space.
Charlotte commercial remodels, answered
Can you work around our business hours on a Charlotte upfit?
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How is the electrical sequenced so it doesn’t stall our Charlotte upfit?
Bring the drawings, we’ll wire the Charlotte upfit
Load calc against the new use, permit, coordination, and inspection, handled around your business hours.
