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For all your Title 24 and building energy simulation needs
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Staff Certified Energy Analyst: Steve K. Means
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Thanks for visiting. This is an information source for EasyTitle24 (formerly Quick Check). We can handle all of your California energy compliance documentation needs. Also, if you are just looking for helpful information on California's Building Energy Efficiency Standards, then keep reading.
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- Our mission: To provide high quality computerized building energy performance simulations for various green building programs. Because our prices are competitive, and our quality is high, we believe our work represents excellent value.
- Since we are based in California, most of our work stems from "Title 24 compliance." That is, the production of energy efficiency reports [Title 24 reports] that document Building Energy Efficiency Code compliance by stipulating certain construction requirements, while simulating the energy performance of buildings. Many national and state incentive and recognition programs as well as local "green building" ordinances use Title 24 as their starting point, and we are trained and certified for most of these programs. We hold CEA, CEPE, and CGBP certifications. We have experience on the New Solar Homes Partnership, EnergyStar, LEED, Build-It-Green, and SBA energy efficient mortgages. We can handle nearly all types of building projects. Professional liability bonding certificates are available in addition.
- If you are new to Title 24 or energy analysis, then we suggest you click the links to the left for more information (you will need the free Acrobat Reader to view some of the pages, and you may need to temporarily enable popups). If you want to save yourself significant time and money on residential projects by doing the plan "takeoffs" yourself, our new website, www.easyTitle24.com, is open for business (click left hand link). For full service: Everything you need to know (including prices) is on, or linked within, the links to the left. Please scroll down to the bottom of this page for ways to send us work, and for ways to get in touch with us.
- We can now provide ACCA Manuals J, D & S duct design and system selection services on residential projects. Our fee for Manuals J and D is 1.5 times that of our Title 24 compliance fees. Adding Manual S makes our fee twice the Title 24 rate.
- Most of our time is spent gathering all relevant design information (and waiting for responses to questions about missing information). If you want to minimize the amount of time it takes us to complete our work, then please click the "What Designers Need to Know" link on the left, and print out the appropriate transmittal form (linked). Those forms tell you what information we need.
- Some very significant changes to the Title 24 Standards went into effect on 1/1/10. If you are a builder, you should probably familiarize yourself with the Field Forms linked to the left. Those "acceptance" forms are gradually being required by more and more field inspectors. Since they are designed to be completed by installers, they are not part of the permit submittal, nor part of your Title 24 report. Documents on the current Standards are linked at the bottom.
- The bottom line: Envelope designers will need to be judicious in the placement of West facing glass. Designers in other disciplines will need to take energy conservation seriously. Building plans will require more detail in general. More care must be taken to fully coordinate energy compliance reports with other construction documents. Contractors and installers will need to read all the construction documents very carefully, and be aware of various "Installation Certificates" and "Acceptance" procedures. Computer simulated "performance" Title 24, and "existing-plus-addition/alteration" analysis will be all but required. Incentive programs require it, and it has many construction advantages as well.
- For new buildings (except high-rise residential), new CALGreen Standards went into effect on 1/1/11. These new Standards raise the quality bar in California construction by adding many mandatory requirements across several disciplines. Documents for your review are linked at the bottom. Since these are mandatory, they do not require any calculations. Compliance will be documented through the use of new permit and field forms.
- We accept both printed plans, and CAD drawings (we can read AutoCad 2010 and below). PDF files will also work fine. Click the e-mail link at the very bottom of this page to send us an e-mail (it is also helpful, though not required, to fax/send the appropriate transmittal/ checklist from our "What Designers Need to Know" page--linked at the upper left). If you have printed plans you would like us to work on, you can drop them off for "EasyTitle24" at 852 Galvin Dr., El Cerrito, CA 94530. If you would like to meet with an Energy Analyst, then please call (925) 671-4789 to make an appointment. Of course, you could also mail plans to that address. Make sure you enclose a phone number where we can reach you with questions. Steve Means' cellular phone number is (510) 750-8201. After hours, and when the office is closed, that is the number to call.
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