Commercial electrical in Metro Detroit

Ask any property manager which sub sets the pace of a build-out and you'll get the same answer twice out of three times: the electrician. Rough-in gates the inspection, the inspection gates the drywall, and the drywall gates everything after it. When the electrical crew belongs to somebody else's company, that gate opens on somebody else's calendar.

AGP Construction self-performs electrical with our own crews, the same way we self-perform drywall, paint, framing, roofing, HVAC and plumbing. That means the wall gets opened, wired, inspected, closed, taped and painted by one company on one schedule, and there's no week of silence in the middle while three vendors negotiate who goes next.

We work direct for building owners and property managers across Metro Detroit: offices, retail centers, medical and professional suites, and multi-family buildings. Everything from a single circuit for a new copier to a full lighting retrofit across a portfolio.

Most commercial electrical surprises in this market are age. A lot of Metro Detroit's office and retail stock was wired for typewriters and fluorescent troffers, then had thirty years of tenants add load to it one copier at a time. The panel is full, the labeling stopped being accurate in 1998, and the previous guy solved a problem with a double tap instead of a subpanel. None of that shows up on a walkthrough until somebody opens the cover.

So we open the cover before we price the work, not after. You get photos of what's actually in there, a plain description of what's fine and what isn't, and a number that already accounts for it. The alternative is the industry standard: a low bid, then a change order the week the ceiling is open.

Occupied buildings and after hours

Shutting power down to a floor is not a scheduling detail, it's the whole job. We plan outages around your tenants: nights, weekends, or a Sunday morning window, with notice you can forward to the building. Most retrofit work in an occupied building happens outside business hours, and we price it that way from the start instead of discovering it together later.

Permits and inspections

We pull the electrical permit, meet the inspector, and close the permit out. You'll never be the one on the phone with a building department explaining somebody else's rough-in. Closed permits also matter later: an open one has a way of surfacing during a sale or a refinance, years after everybody forgot about it.

LED retrofits and what actually pays back

An LED retrofit is one of the few building upgrades that pays for itself on a schedule you can predict, but the payback depends entirely on hours of use. A warehouse lit 24 hours a day and a professional suite lit 50 hours a week are two completely different math problems, and only one of them is exciting. We count fixtures, count hours, and show you the math for your building before you sign anything. If the numbers don't work yet, we'll tell you that too.