The Wharf at Westview project, located at the centre of the Powell River waterfront near the BC Ferries terminal, had been in planning and construction phases for nearly a decade before its completion in 2013. The redeveloped site transformed a former tanker wharf into a community fishing pier and public gathering space, and includes a new Wharfinger building providing amenities for commercial and recreational boaters. The adjacent South Harbour redevelopment expanded moorage capacity by 56% to 1,270 metres with new floats and a realigned breakwater, accommodating both the commercial fishing fleet and increasing recreational boat traffic.

Muir Engineering provided electrical engineering services across multiple phases of this waterfront revitalization, working with the City of Powell River and coordinating with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) and Wedler Engineering. The scope included waterfront lighting design for the wharf, pier, boardwalk, and Spirit Square — with post-top street lights, bollard lights, and parking area lighting all modelled using photometric software to IES roadway lighting standards. The electrical distribution system, buried conduit infrastructure, and wiring along the boardwalk and pier structures were all designed as part of the works, along with the lift station electrical design including pump controls, PLC logic, level sensing, and telemetry. A separate scope addition addressed a 600V service upgrade to the DFO South Harbour, including step-down transformer design, 347/600V distribution equipment for dock and float power, and cost-sharing analysis between the City and DFO.