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| Getting Started
In order to provide you with a complete and efficient Title 24 Energy Analysis for Compliance and / or to receive a price quotation, please read the following outline. It will help you understand: | What information Solargy needs from you | • | Project Contact Information | • | Architectural Drawings | How to get your information to Solargy | • | Solargy’s free Online Project Management Service | • | Other Methods | Documentation you will get back from Solargy | • | Electronic Documentation Option | • | Printed Documentation Options | Request for more Information or to get a Price Quotation | • | Read this document first, then go here |
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| What information Solargy needs from you
Solargy requests that you submit the following information so that we can provide you with a complete and efficient Title 24 Energy Analysis for Compliance and / or Price Quotation.
(1) Project Contact Information
Please be sure to include all the following contact information: Architect\Designer\Contractor | Building\Property Owner | Name | Name | Address | Address | Phone Number | Phone Number | Email Address | Email Address (optional) |
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| (2) Architectural Drawings
We ask you to provide us with a copy of your architectural drawings of your project. We use these drawing to extract the data needed to perform the Title 24 calculations. Ideally, we encourage you submit these drawings to us electronically via our Online Project Management Service area.
We retain these drawings for two reasons. First, we mark up the drawings while we are working on your project. Second, if questions come up during plan check, we have a record set. If you do not have a copy of your architectural drawings of your project, upon request, we will not mark up your plans and will return them with your energy calculations.
Your submitted drawings should include the following information:
• Site plan / Plot plan with north arrow
• Floor plan(s)
• Elevations
• Sections
• Window & door schedules
• Project address
• Owners name
• Name and address of the person to be shown as the project designer
(this can also be the owner)
Please submit drawings in AutoCAD dwg or dxf format.
Please do not pick and choose through your drawings and remove important elements. For instance, many people will "X-Ref" their title block, and then fail to include it with the files they submit to us. This only complicates the process we are trying to simplify. When the drawings are plotted, we run the risk of losing the identity of the architect, the owners name and the project address, all of which are very important pieces of information necessary to complete our work. It is always better to send us too much information rather than not enough. We can decide which sheets we need to plot.
For an addition we may need additional information. The reason for this is that there are several methods for performing the energy analysis. We obtain the best results, as a rule, by modeling the existing house alone then modeling it (with changes) and the addition together. We compare the two models and attempt to show that by virtue of the changes being made you are improving the overall energy efficiency of the building. In order to do this we would like to have the same information as above for the existing house. However, it is generally the case that existing plans are not available, so if we can obtain a sketch of the outline of the existing house (to scale) and window sizes in the various orientations, that will usually be enough. We can model just the addition and in some cases we can get it to comply without having to do anything out of the ordinary or use the existing house info. However, this approach will not work if there is a significant amount of glass. |
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| How to get your information to Solargy - Sending us your files
If you would like Solargy to perform a Title 24 Energy Analysis on your project, you can supply us a set of plans using any of the following methods:
• Solargy’s free Online Project Management Service (the fastest and most efficient method)
• Postal Mail
• Overnight Delivery
• Messenger or Blueprint Delivery Service
• For clients in our locality we offer free pick-up and delivery. Just give us a call.
Please be sure to include your contact information with all correspondence.
Important note: Your drawings remain your property. We will never use your drawings for any other purpose than to complete the work we are hired to perform. Your drawings and the intellectual content will not be shared with any third party unless requested by you. For information regarding your Privacy, please review Solargy’s Privacy Statement.
Our goal is to save you construction expenses by judicious application of the Title 24 Energy Regulations, often far more than the cost of our services.
For additional help or information, please call us at 818-347-6096 and one of our energy analysts will be happy to speak with you about your project. You may also send us an email and we will get back to you as soon as possible. |
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| Documentation you will get back from Solargy
For most projects it is required to submit 2 copies of your calculations, we will give you 3.
It is also required that your certificate of compliance and the current set of residential mandatory measures be added to your plans in some manner or fashion. Typically this is done by photo copying sheets of the report onto "sticky-backs" (adhesive transparencies) and placing them onto a vellum for blueprinting.
You can choose any of the following methods to receive your Title 24 compliance documentation.
Electronic Documentation:
• Using the preferred Solargy Online Project Management Service, we will place all the
Title 24 documentation associated with your project into your personalized protected
folder. This documentation will include your Title 24 Energy compliance report(s) in
Adobe Acrobat PDF file and an AutoCAD Drawing in replacement of the of sticky-backs
as mentioned above. You can download your project’s documentation at any time.
This option give you the flexibility to add your title block and other pertinent information about the project to the drawings and maintains an aesthetic continuity to your set of plans. (If you do not have AutoCAD you can still plot our drawing file using other popular CAD software or download the free Volo View Express software from AutoDesk).
Printed Documentation:
You can either pick it up from us, have a messenger pick it up, or we will be happy to mail it or overnight it to you.
Option 1
• 3 copies of the report printed on standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper.
• 1 set of sticky-backs, usually 7 or 8 pages of 8 1/2 by 11 inch.
Option 2
• 3 copies of the report printed on standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper.
• 1 vellum with sticky-backs pre-applied. |
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| Request for more Information or to get a Price Quotation
To get more information or to request a Price Quotation from Solargy regarding your Title 24 project, please go here. |
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