Title 24 reports for Fresno permits.
Fresno lists Title-24 as a plan-check discipline of its own, alongside Fire, Structural and Public Works — so a mismatch between the energy model and the plan sheets is a named, checkable failure here.
Title 24 gets its own reviewer here
Most cities fold the energy report into architectural or mechanical review. Fresno doesn’t: its Building and Safety booklet prints “Title-24” in the reviewer list next to Fire, Structural and Public Works. The plan-review checklist then gives it a numbered item with four separate deliverables, the first being the energy calculations with the features called out and matching the plans. A model that disagrees with the sheets is a specific correction, and a back check runs 10 business days on the city’s own numbers. Those numbers come from a booklet dated 2023-10-02: Level 1 up to 3 business days, Level 2 up to 14 (where the city’s standard-template ADUs sit), Level 3 up to 21 (custom ADU and new custom single-family), Level 4 up to 28, addendums and field revisions 14 — and nothing routes at all until the plan check fees invoiced at submittal are paid.
Fresno is also one of very few California cities that publishes its own reading of the 2025 Energy Code: a joint symposium with Clovis on 12/15/2025, with Climate-Zone-13 numbers in the deck. It flags Table 140.10-A Factor A rising steeply for Climate Zone 13 — restaurants from 0.39 to 10.69 — and every Fresno ZIP in the CEC workbook is Zone 13. It also says solar plans go in concurrently with the building plans, no deferred submittals. On local rules, Fresno enforces the statewide Energy Code with no local energy amendment: it is on neither CEC approved-local-standards list, and the city’s own briefing says AB 306 largely bars new local amendments to residential building standards for now.
One thing that doesn’t change by city: my price and turnaround are flat statewide — $99 first report, $150 flat after, 24–48 hours on your first job. What differs city to city is what happens on the plan-check side before and after the CF1R lands in your permit set, which is what this page covers.
Prices
Flat fees, in writing before I start. No hourly, no bid package, no change-order games — the number on the quote is the number on the invoice.
Your first report with me
One per client, homes under 3,000 square feet. Full energy model, CF1R and CHEERS registration. It’s a test run — send one job and see how it goes.
Every model after the first
The standard rate once you’re a client — the second building, ADU plus main house, the next project that walks in. Back in 3 business days.
Over 3,000 square feet
Quoted from the plans before any work starts, same day.
24×36 plan-sheet set
Your CF1R laid out full size, matched to your drawing set. Comes back as a PDF you drop straight in.
Revisions
Two revisions included, plus questions any time. Past two I quote first, before I touch it.
Commercial / tenant improvement
Send the plans and you’ll have a flat quote back the same day. No deposit, no minimum.
One honest note
I’m not a licensed engineer or architect, and I don’t stamp drawings. On the CF1R I’m the documentation author — you stay the responsible designer. Nothing about your role on the job changes.
That’s on purpose. I’m not after your scope or your clients. I do one piece of the permit set — the piece that usually holds it up — and I do it fast.
Fresno plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
Does Fresno review the energy report separately from the plans?
Do Fresno’s standard-plan ADUs still need a Zone Clearance?
Plan check came back with an energy comment. Now what?
Forward it to me. If it’s a job I did, the first two revisions are free and I answer the comment directly — you don’t have to translate between your plan checker and me.
If someone else did the original report, I’ll still take it. Send the comment and the existing CF1R and you’ll get a flat quote back the same day.
What do you need from me to start?
A PDF of the architecturals and the project address. Floor plans, elevations and a window schedule is plenty.
You don’t need the HVAC or water heater picked. If the plans don’t call them out, I model what I’d normally specify for that job — and I list every assumption in the email so nothing is buried. Swap any of it and I rerun; that doesn’t count against your free revisions.
The design doesn’t have to be finished either. Early is often better, because that’s when a compliance problem is still cheap to fix.
Send your Fresno plans.
The CF1R comes back with the forms and the report matched to the sheets, which is exactly what Fresno’s Title-24 reviewer checks for.