As electrification accelerates across Canada, buildings are being asked to accommodate significantly greater electrical demand from heat pumps, electric vehicle charging, domestic hot water, and other traditionally fossil-fuelled loads. This transition is creating increasing pressure on electrical design, building service capacity, and utility infrastructure, particularly in dense urban environments and existing buildings. This discussion will explore how electrical systems can be designed more efficiently to support continued electrification while managing capacity, cost, constructability, and connection challenges. Topics will include power-efficient electrical design, service sizing, load management, utility connections, infrastructure constraints, and opportunities to make better use of available electrical capacity. Bringing together perspectives from electrical consulting, municipal planning, and utility distribution, the discussion will examine how designers, municipalities, utilities, developers, and other stakeholders can work together to accommodate growing electrical loads without relying solely on increasingly larger electrical services and infrastructure upgrades. The session will also look ahead at how electrical design practices, policies, utility processes, and emerging technologies may need to evolve as BC continues toward a more electrified built environment. Speaker(s): Steven Nemetz, Chris Higgins, Jason Rowley Room: KAIS 2020, Bldg: Fred Kaiser Building, 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4