What this means for Metro Vancouver strata councils
This guide covers livingepr™: an interactive version of your strata electrical report for strata corporations across Metro Vancouver. The requirements are province-wide, but two things are local to your council — the deadline you are working toward and the kind of building you manage.
Metro Vancouver carries the largest concentration of strata corporations in British Columbia — concrete highrises through Vancouver, Burnaby Metrotown, Coquitlam Burquitlam, and the New Westminster waterfront; townhouse-dominant stock through Surrey, Langley, Maple Ridge, and Delta; and 1980s wood-frame walk-ups still common across the older neighbourhoods. The region's December 31, 2026 EPR deadline puts most councils in active planning mode.
- Electrical Planning Report (EPR): due December 31, 2026 for Metro Vancouver stratas of five or more lots, under the Strata Property Act.
The full guide
Strata electrical reports usually arrive as a single document: a PDF filed in the strata's records. The PDF is exactly what the strata's permanent records need — but a dense technical document is not always the easiest way for a non-technical council or owner to work with the information inside.
LivingEPR™ is our answer. When a strata engages CF Electrical Services for both an Electrical Planning Report and an EV Ready Plan, the council receives two things at no extra charge: the PDF it keeps on file, and a LivingEPR, our interactive Living Report: a web version of the same report that every owner can open in a browser. Engaging CF for a single report — an EPR alone or an EV Ready Plan alone — the LivingEPR is available as an add-on to that engagement.
What a LivingEPR is
A LivingEPR is your report, on the web. Instead of scrolling a static document, owners and council members open a link and move through the findings — the building's electrical capacity, the demand on it, the constraints, and the recommended upgrades — laid out in plain terms, section by section. The technical content underneath is identical to the PDF; the difference is that anyone on the council can navigate it, understand it, and explain it to the rest of the building without a technical background.
Why it matters to a council
A strata pays for these reports out of its own funds and has to act on them — budget from them, vote on them, and explain them to owners. BC's regulations spell out what a report must contain, but not that it has to be readable by the people receiving it — and that gap decides how useful a report is to the council that receives it. We wrote about it separately in why EPR quality varies so widely. The LivingEPR is the practical expression of the same principle: full technical accuracy, delivered in a form a non-technical council can actually use.
Included when you engage us for both an EPR and an EV Ready Plan
The LivingEPR comes at no extra charge as part of a combined engagement — an Electrical Planning Report and an EV Ready Plan together — whatever the size of the building. Engaging CF for a single report, the LivingEPR is available as an add-on to that engagement. Either way, the council always keeps the PDF for its permanent records and for disclosure to buyers, lenders, and insurers; the LivingEPR is delivered alongside it, for the owners and council members who have to live with the decisions.
Why we deliver reports this way
We would rather be chosen for what the report does once it is in your council's hands than for anything else. A report you can read, navigate, and act on is a report that gets used — for budgeting, for owner meetings, and for the decisions that follow. It is the same standard behind every CF report: technical accuracy your council can actually use.
LivingEPR™ is a trademark of CF Electrical Services Ltd. The LivingEPR report format and methodology are © 2026 CF Electrical Services Ltd.
Next steps for Metro Vancouver councils
When your council is ready to act, CF Electrical Services prepares Electrical Planning Reports and EV Ready Plans for stratas across Metro Vancouver — everything written in plain language for the council and owners who have to use it. When the plan becomes a project, we can manage that too.
- Electrical Planning Reports in Vancouver
- Electrical Planning Reports in Burnaby
- Electrical Planning Reports in Surrey
- Electrical Planning Reports in Richmond
- Electrical Planning Reports in Coquitlam
- Electrical Planning Reports in North Vancouver
- Electrical Planning Reports in West Vancouver
- Electrical Planning Reports in Langley
See all Metro Vancouver strata services, or browse the full guide library.
Written by CF Electrical Services — BC strata electrical consulting: Electrical Planning Reports, EV Ready Plans, and electrification project management. Published July 11, 2026.