What does a load study cover at an apartment or HOA property?
Individual units have their own meters, but a property also has a common electrical system: the house panels that serve lighting, pools, clubhouses, laundry rooms, gates and elevators. That shared system is where capacity runs short, and it is what a multifamily load study measures.
What do we measure?
- House meter and main service loads
- Panels serving the pool, clubhouse, laundry, gates and common lighting
- Peak demand during the busiest periods of the year
- Voltage on long feeders that run across the property
- Spare capacity for planned additions
What decisions does the data support?
- Adding EV charging stations without overloading the house service
- Replacing pool equipment, lighting or gate operators
- Planning a reserve study or capital budget with real electrical numbers
- Responding to tripped breakers or flickering in common areas
- Deciding whether an older panel or feeder is due for replacement
What if the property has older wiring?
Many Phoenix-area communities were built in the 1960s and 1970s, which is the era of aluminum branch wiring. We also repair that wiring in apartment and commercial buildings, so if the walk-through turns it up, we can explain the options on our aluminum wire and repair page.
How do we work with boards and managers?
We write the report in plain language, with a summary a board can use at a meeting and the detail an engineer or contractor needs. We schedule recording and any short outages around residents. We assist engineers with load calculations and supply the data. The overall service is on our Electrical Load Studies page.
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