Non-Residential Title 24 Now Offered

Posted on 20. Jun, 2009 by Alan Huguenot, CEPE in Shameless Self-Promotion

Here at Green Compliance Plus (GCP) we also offer NON-RESIDENTIAL TITLE 24 Compliance Services, as well as Residential and Non-Residential Building Systems Commissioning Services for new construction, and re-commissioning for existing buildings.Architects and developers who have historically concentrated in the Residential markets, are now beginning to take on Non-Residential projects to keep their order books full during this the economic downturn, and when they do, one of the questions which comes to mind is,

“Where do we go with our Non-Residential projects to find the level of service we have enjoyed at GCP with our Residential designs?”

The short answer is “Simply stay put”.  At Green Compliance Plus our staff includes T-24 documentation authors who are recognized by the State of California (CABEC) as Certified Energy Plans Examiners (CEPE’s) for Non-Residential projects, which includes everything from high rise offices to hospitals, bio-tech facilities and electronics wafer fabs, restaurants and cafeterias, or even chemical plants. And over the last 20 years Alan, our Director of Energy Compliance, has served as the lead Commissioning Authority (CxA) during the start-up phase of numerous apartment complexes, office and laboratory buildings, industrial facilities, medical, pharmaceutical and electronics facilities projects, overseeing all the functional performance testing and performance verifications.

In Non-Residential modeling, Alan has 20 years experience with DOE 2.2, the U.S. Department of Energy’s program first developed by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in 1982, and it is DOE 2.2 which forms the basis for the models behind the more widely known T-24 programs, Micropas and EnergyPro. But, those two popular programs are mostly limited to Title 24 applications.

Today, with the advent of LEED and GreenPoint rating requirements for buildings, as well as the other incentive programs which are coming into the picture, there are now many energy measures (EM’s), which your client may be considering, but which are not yet recognized by Title 24. But, these additional measures need to be modeled and analyzed, and unless the model is based on E-quest/DOE 2.2, this will be difficult to do. So, this is where E-Quest / DOE 2.2 makes a better energy model. This versatile program allows modeling of any EM you can think of. Also, by utilizing the energy rate data available from the utility companies, E-Quest/DOE 2.2 can generate Life Cycle Cost (LCC) data, which allows you to figure the pay-back for each EM. This is also the program used by most mechanical and electrical engineers in their building systems design. And, beginning in 2004, it has been fully approved by the CEC for Title 24 compliance documentation and has been continually upgraded and re-approved for T-24 (2001), T24 (2005) and will also shortly be approved for T-24 (2008).

“At Green Compliance Plus we take the worry out of Title 24 Compliance”.

We also provide the Non-Residential HERS-Rater duct testing and verifications, which will be required for Non-Residential Construction after August 1.

About the author
 Alan Huguenot, Certified Energy Plans Examiner (CEPE), ASHRAE, NFPA, BCA, CABEC, U.S. Green Building Council (LEED) with over 20 years experience as a Mechanical Engineer and Commissioning Agent (CxA). As a California Certified Energy Analyst (CEA), Alan provides Residential Energy Audits and full HVAC and plumbing commissioning services, to make sure that the systems in the residence are operating at their full rated efficiency.

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