For additions, new construction and remodels that touch structural elements, we coordinate your structural engineer's calculations and your Title 24 / CF1R energy compliance report against the same set of drawings, then submit both together — instead of leaving it to you to notice when they've drifted apart.
A structural engineer and a Title 24 consultant are usually hired separately, and each one works from whatever drawing revision they were last handed. That's fine right up until the structural engineer relocates a shear wall to clear a header, or the floor plan gets a window resized after the energy calc already ran — at which point the structural calcs, the Title 24 report and the architectural set are each describing a slightly different building. Plan checkers catch this constantly, and the correction has nothing to do with either discipline being wrong on its own — it's a version-mismatch problem. Bundling the two into one coordinated package, drafted and tracked against a single current set, is what avoids it.
To be clear about scope: we don't perform structural engineering or stamp structural calculations ourselves — that's the licensed structural engineer's work, and we coordinate that relationship directly (see Engineering & Specialist Coordination for how that handoff works). What we do is draft the architectural set in Revit and keep the structural engineer working from that same coordinated model, so the beam locations, bearing points and shear wall placements they're engineering to actually match what's drawn — instead of the engineer redlining a PDF that's already a revision behind. The Title 24 / CF1R report then gets calculated from that same current version, using the wall assemblies and window schedule the structural review actually landed on, not an earlier draft.
We draft the architectural set in Revit and hand it to your licensed structural engineer to engineer and stamp — beams, posts, shear walls and foundation details get drawn to match their calculations, not sketched separately and reconciled later.
Calculated from the same coordinated drawing set — same wall assemblies, same window schedule, same square footage the structural review used — instead of a report built off whatever version existed when it was ordered.
Structural calcs, Title 24 report and architectural drawings go to plan check as one coordinated package, so a reviewer isn't cross-checking three documents that were assembled independently on three different timelines.
When a plan check correction moves a wall or changes a beam size, that change gets carried into the Title 24 inputs too — insulation, glazing, assembly types — instead of leaving the energy calc quietly out of date after a structural revision.
We confirm whether your project actually triggers structural review — a new or relocated bearing wall, an added floor, a roof framing change — versus one that only needs Title 24 on its own.
Your licensed structural engineer works from our Revit model to produce stamped calculations and framing details, engineered against the drawings you're actually submitting.
Once the structural details are locked, the Title 24 / CF1R report is calculated from that same current version — not an earlier draft that predates the engineering.
Structural, Title 24 and architectural go to plan check together. If a correction touches one discipline, we carry that change through the others before resubmitting.
No — structural engineering and stamping calculations requires a licensed structural engineer, and that's not us. What we handle is the architectural drafting and the coordination between your structural engineer, your Title 24 consultant and the drawing set itself, so everyone is working from the same current version. See Engineering & Specialist Coordination for how we structure that relationship, including bringing in an engineer if you don't already have one.
You can, and plenty of projects are permitted that way. The risk is timing: if the structural engineer's calcs and the Title 24 report are each ordered off a drawing revision from a few weeks apart, a change on one side — a resized window, a moved wall — doesn't automatically show up on the other. Bundling both under one coordinated Revit model means a change gets carried through to whichever report depends on it, rather than surfacing as a plan check correction later.
As a rough guide: projects that add square footage, add a floor, remove or relocate a bearing wall, or change roof framing typically trigger structural review. A remodel that keeps the existing structure intact — most kitchen and bath remodels, for example — usually only needs Title 24 on its own. We confirm which category your project falls into during the initial scope, covered under our architectural drafting service, before assuming you need the full bundle.
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