How Long Does a Commercial Title 24 Report Take?
Standard commercial turnaround is four to five business days from the point we have the complete scope of work. Rush is two to three days. The usual delay is not production time — it is missing fitting wattages.
What standard and rush actually mean
Standard commercial turnaround is four to five business days, and the clock starts when we have the complete scope of work — not when the enquiry arrives. Rush is two to three business days. If you need it sooner than that, say so on the quote form and we will tell you honestly whether the date is achievable before you commit to anything.
Commercial runs longer than residential for a reason. A house is modelled from a plan set we can read end to end; a commercial job depends on a lighting schedule, a mechanical scope and often a controls narrative, and those arrive from different people at different times. The four-to-five day figure reflects the work once it is all in front of us.
The bottleneck is nearly always the lighting schedule
Lighting compliance is calculated from installed input wattage per fitting. A schedule that gives model numbers without wattages, or lamp wattages instead of total input wattage, has to be resolved before anything can be calculated — and resolving it usually means going back to the supplier or the electrical engineer. That round trip, not the modelling, is what determines whether a commercial report lands inside the standard window or drifts past it.
A project that arrives with a complete schedule is quick regardless of size.
Undecided mechanical scope
The second common hold-up. Where it is not yet settled whether the base building conditioning is being altered, or what supplementary equipment is going in, the mechanical documentation cannot be finalised. A written statement that nothing mechanical is changing is enough to unblock it, and is often all that was missing.
Where the design does not comply
On commercial work this is most often lighting power over the allowance. The useful output is not a failure notice but the options: more efficient fittings, fewer fittings, or reallocating power between general and accent lighting. Those have very different cost implications, so they are set out before one is chosen.
Acceptance testing is a separate timeline
Where controls or mechanical systems need acceptance testing, that happens on site after installation and near the end of the build. It does not affect how long the report takes, but it is the item most likely to hold up a final sign-off, so it is worth identifying at design stage rather than at inspection.