Archive for 'Regulatory Changes'

Title 24 2008 New Requirements

Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by Rebecca Firestone.

I know we’ve published several of these, but this is updated to show more specifics. These are the requirements that will be in effect when the new 2008 Title 24 goes “live” in January 2010.

These requirements reference two compliance methods, a prescriptive method and a performance method. The prescriptive method is simpler but offers less flexibility, whereas the performance method uses a software modeling program with a detailed series of inputs that can be modified to test various trade-offs. We at Green Compliance Plus use the performance method.

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Title 24 Will Require HERS Ratings On Nearly All Projects

Posted on 04. Aug, 2009 by Alan Huguenot, CEPE.

The 2008 Title 24 requirements, which will become effective in January of 2010, will now require both HERS verification and electronic document filing and registration for all Title 24 documents, including the following:

• The CF-1R Certificate of Compliance, which completed and signed by both the Title 24 Document Author and the Architect
• The CF-6R Installation Certificate, completed by the installing contractor
• The CF-4R Certificate of Field Verification and Diagnostic Testing, completed by the HERS Rater

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Title 24 2008 Reprieve!

Posted on 30. Jun, 2009 by Rebecca Firestone.

Those of you with T24s in process or coming up soon might like to know that the California Energy Commission has pushed back the Title 24 2008 rollout to January of 2010. We’ve been telling all our Title 24 clients to get their designs in before August 1, but the California Energy Commission needs the extra time to ensure that the approved modeling software packages are fully updated. Use this time to refine your designs and still get in under the “easier 2005″ compliance regulations. Here’s the official notice.

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New Title 24 is 15% Stricter

Posted on 11. Jun, 2009 by Alan Huguenot, CEPE.

EVERYTHING CHANGES AUGUST FIRST: The new 2008 Title 24, which becomes mandatory after August 1, 2009, is 15% more stringent than the 2005 version was, and also creates a whole new set of electronic filing requirements.

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