Title 24 Report

A Title 24 report is the certificate of compliance your building department needs before it issues a permit. Order one online from $199, registered where required and delivered in 2–3 business days.

  1. Choose your report
  2. Upload your plans
  3. Pay securely
  4. Permit-ready report by email

A Title 24 report is the energy compliance documentation submitted with your California building permit. It demonstrates that your design meets the California Energy Code for its building type, scope and climate zone.

Title 24 certification: the report is the certificate

When a building department or contractor asks for "Title 24 certification", they mean the certificate of compliance, and that certificate is the Title 24 report. "Title 24 compliance report" and "energy compliance report" are other names for the same documents. Which certificate you need depends on the building:

  • CF1R: single-family homes, additions, alterations and ADUs. What a CF1R is
  • LMCC: multifamily buildings of up to three habitable storeys. The LMCC
  • NRCC: nonresidential buildings, and multifamily buildings of four or more habitable storeys. The NRCC

No state office issues it. The certificate is completed for your project, signed by the person who prepared it and by the designer responsible for the building, and submitted to your building department at plan check. Where compliance relies on ECC field verification, the copy submitted must be a registered copy from an ECC provider data registry such as CHEERS. The department issues the permit only once it has determined in writing, usually with its approval stamp, that the design complies with the Energy Code in effect on the date the permit was applied for. That approved certificate is your Title 24 certification. If you meant certification for the person preparing reports, see who can prepare a Title 24 report.

What is actually in the report

For low-rise residential projects the central document is the CF1R Certificate of Compliance. It records the project details, the compliance approach used, the modelled results, the mandatory measures and any special features requiring field verification.

  • CF1R Certificate of Compliance for your scope
  • Compliance results — proposed design against the standard design
  • Envelope details: assemblies, fenestration, U-factor and SHGC
  • HVAC and water heating information
  • Mandatory measures summary
  • Registration where your project requires it

Two documents that are not part of it

The CF2R Certificate of Installation is completed by the contractor who installs the equipment, and the CF3R Certificate of Verification by an ECC-Rater after field testing. They appear during construction, not at design. Knowing which document belongs to whom prevents a lot of confusion at inspection. What happens after you receive your report covers both, and the final inspection.

How to get a Title 24 report

Get it before you apply for the permit: send your plans and the project address to an energy consultant, who models the design and prepares the certificate, then submit it with your permit application. With us that is five steps and, as standard, 2–3 business days.

  1. Confirm your project needs one. New homes, additions, ADUs and alterations to regulated systems normally do. Do I need a Title 24 report?
  2. Gather the plans. A floor plan, elevations and a window schedule cover most residential projects; add the heating, cooling and water heating equipment if it is chosen. The Title 24 checklist lists what to have ready for each project type.
  3. Order online. Choose ADU, Residential or Multi-Family, enter the project address, your details and the scope of work, and upload the plans as PDFs, up to ten files at 49 MB each. The total is shown before you pay. Commercial projects request a free quote instead.
  4. We prepare and register it. We confirm the climate zone from the address, choose the compliance path, model the design in CEC-approved software and register the certificate with CHEERS where the project requires it. ADU, residential and multi-family reports are emailed as a permit-ready PDF 2–3 business days after we have everything we need, or within 24 hours with the $95 rush. Commercial reports take 4–5 business days from a complete scope.
  5. Submit it with your permit application. The plans examiner checks the certificate against the drawings. If a correction comes back on the energy documentation, send us the letter; revisions are unlimited until your project complies.

Decisions worth settling before you order, such as how final your equipment choices are, are covered in 12 things to know before ordering a Title 24 report.

Pricing

  • ADU — from $199, includes up to 1,000 sq ft
  • Residential — from $245, includes up to 3,500 sq ft
  • Multi-Family — from $345, includes up to 4,000 sq ft and 4 units
  • Commercial — quoted after we review your plans, free

Additional square footage is itemised in the order form, so the figure you see before paying is the figure you pay. Revisions are unlimited until your project complies. A 24-hour rush is $95.

Frequently Asked Questions

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