New single-family homes
Performance-method modeling for new construction, including PV and battery requirements.
California Title 24, Part 6 · Energy compliance
More than 30 years of energy compliance experience, backed by our own AI-enhanced workflow. Send your drawings and get the most cost-effective path to compliance, in a reviewed, plan-check-ready package, without the usual wait.
Residential new construction, additions, alterations and ADUs throughout California. Questions? Call 818-282-5045 and talk to a consultant, not a bot.
Difficult additions, tight budgets, unusual designs, tough plan checkers. Three decades in the industry means your project is in hands that already know the way through.
Services
Performance and prescriptive compliance under the current California Energy Code, modeled in CEC-approved software.
Performance-method modeling for new construction, including PV and battery requirements.
Additions modeled as their own zone alongside the existing home, using the existing-plus-addition approach when it helps.
Envelope, window and system changes on existing homes, prescriptive or performance. Prescriptive compliance same day.
Detached, attached and garage-conversion ADUs and junior ADUs.
Compliance documents for equipment replacements and heat pump conversions, with same-day prescriptive compliance.
Fast responses to building department comments and resubmittals.
Plan sheet integration
Skip the cut-and-paste. We can place the Certificates of Compliance and the Residential Mandatory Measures directly onto sheets in your drawing set, so it goes to plan check complete.
Add it to your quoteAbout residential Title 24
Title 24 is California’s Building Standards Code. Part 6 of it, the California Energy Code, sets the minimum energy efficiency every new home, addition and many alterations must meet before a building permit can be issued.
The energy code was born from the 1970s energy crisis, when California set out to cut its dependence on imported fuel. Today it aims to lower utility bills, make homes more comfortable and healthier, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and ease demand on the electric grid.
By law, every requirement must be cost-effective over the life of the building, so the savings a homeowner sees are meant to outweigh what the measures cost to build.
Prescriptive: meet a fixed checklist of requirements, item by item. Performance: model the whole home with state-approved software and trade off measures, so a strength in one area can make up for another. Performance is where most of the cost savings are found. Prescriptive compliance is available same day.
California’s per-capita energy use has stayed nearly flat since the early 1970s, even as the state’s economy grew.
The California Energy Commission credits its efficiency standards in part. Source: CEC
Using CHEERS
CHEERS is one of California’s approved data registries for residential Title 24 documents. Each registered form gets a unique registration number, and the forms for your project are tracked together from design through final inspection.
Visit cheers.orgWe register the CF1R. Your contractor registers the installation forms and your HERS rater registers the verification. Keep the registration number from your plans handy, and make sure your contractor knows which items need HERS verification before final inspection.
If you do the installation work yourself, you become the responsible person for the CF2R and will sign it in CHEERS under your own account. We will show you which forms apply to your project.
As the responsible designer, you sign the CF1R. We prepare the report and register it in CHEERS; you then sign it electronically before the permit set is submitted. Any later design change means a revised CF1R.
You register and sign a CF2R for each energy feature you install, and give the HERS rater access in CHEERS. A rater can help enter the data, but the installing contractor stays the responsible person.
Not sure what your next CHEERS step is? Call 818-282-5045 and we’ll walk you through it.
AI-enhanced, consultant-led
We have built AI into how we work to take the waiting out of Title 24. You get the speed, and a qualified energy consultant still reviews every project and signs every report.
Our AI-enhanced process moves projects from plans to finished report in less time than a traditional workflow.
A consultant with more than 30 years in the industry reviews every project before it goes out. AI supports the work; a person signs the report.
When plans change, updates move quickly, so plan-check corrections do not hold up your permit.
Cost-effective compliance
Before anything is finalized, we look for the combination of measures that meets code at the lowest construction cost. Take our recommendation, or compare several compliant options and pick the one that fits your budget and design.
The single most cost-effective path to compliance, ready to finalize.
Several compliant packages side by side. You choose before we finalize.
Process
Upload the complete plan set, plus mechanical drawings and window and door specs if you have them.
Our AI-enhanced process and a consultant review turn your plans into a complete energy model.
We find the lowest-cost way to comply, or lay out several options for you to choose from before we finalize.
Signed CF1R and supporting documents, registered with a HERS provider data registry where required.
Pricing
Every quote is fixed once we have seen the plans. Each report includes CHEERS registration, our most cost-effective compliance recommendation, and plan-check corrections at no extra charge.
Equipment replacements and smaller remodels.
HVAC and water heater change-outs, window and envelope alterations.
Same day for prescriptive compliance
Request a quoteAdditions, detached and attached ADUs, and JADUs.
Garage conversions included.
ADUs & JADUs often same day
Request a quoteNew single-family construction, including PV sizing.
Up to 2,500 sq ft CFA. Larger homes from $495.
Super fast with CAD-generated PDFs
Request a quoteApplies to the rebuilt home only, through the end of 2027. A new detached ADU on the same lot is not a rebuild and is priced normally. Please tell us your project qualifies when you request a quote.
Several compliant packages side by side, so you can choose before we finalize.
Certificates of Compliance and Residential Mandatory Measures placed into your drawing set.
Moved to the front of the queue for time-sensitive submittals.
Rerun and reissue after you change the design. Plan-check corrections stay free.
FAQ
It shows that a building project meets California’s Energy Code (Title 24, Part 6). Most building departments require it before issuing a permit for new homes, additions and many alterations.
Yes. Fire rebuilds in Pacific Palisades, Malibu and Altadena qualify for $100 off through the end of 2027. The discount applies to the rebuilt home only; a new detached ADU on the same lot does not count as a rebuild. Just let us know your project qualifies when you request a quote.
No. Every call is answered by an energy consultant who can talk through your project, not an AI or automated phone system.
No. AI is part of how we work faster, but a qualified energy consultant reviews every project, builds the model and signs the report.
Yes. We can incorporate the Certificates of Compliance and the Residential Mandatory Measures into your drawing set, so the energy sheets are ready for plan check.
The complete plan set, every sheet, not just the pages that look energy-related. Details elsewhere in the drawings affect the model, so a partial set can change the quote or slow the job. If available, please also send mechanical drawings and specifications, and the window and door specs or a supplier quote.
Yes. On every project we look for the most cost-effective way to meet code. You can take our recommendation or compare several compliant options before anything is finalized.
We show you options, such as insulation, window or equipment changes, along with which is the most cost-effective, so you can pick the path that fits.
Prescriptive compliance is same day. ADUs and JADUs are often done the same day too, and every project moves fastest when you send CAD-generated PDFs.
It depends on your role. Most homeowners do not. Designers who sign the CF1R, contractors who sign installation forms, and owner-builders doing their own installation work do. See the Using CHEERS section above, or call us.
Yes. Corrections tied to the energy report are included in the quoted fee.
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