by Admin | Jul 2, 2020 | Community
Assessing costs for future projects in California with a three year code cycle change is causing deal makers to miss critical budget forecasts. For example, a lack of understanding of code standards could add $2 million or more in envelope or HVAC system design for a...
by Admin | Jun 18, 2020 | Community
Several factors impact the amount of solar that new low-rise residential construction projects will have to install under the new 2019 California Energy Code, and knowing how these factors affect solar budgets may result in more efficient and cost-effective design....
by Admin | Mar 12, 2020 | Community
California is the first state in the Union to include a solar mandate for new low-rise (three stories or less) residential construction under the 2019 California Energy Code. Luckily, developers will realize return-on-investment on the additional costs for providing...
by Admin | Mar 10, 2020 | Community
What is a master plan? Presently, a city’s planning department duties are to not just properly address professional planning projects, but also to hypothesize what is best for the city in the future. This is known as comprehensive planning and is represented as a...
by Admin | Mar 4, 2020 | Community
On February 20th and after several months of review, the California Energy Commission (CEC) approved Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) proposal to use offsite solar to satisfy the 2019 solar photovoltaic (PV) requirement on new single-family and low-rise...
