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Every tool here is built around drafting, Title 24 and the permit process, because that is the work we actually do.
Four questions about your scope, and you know whether an energy report is coming and which form it is.
Open →Find the climate zone behind your energy report, and what it changes about glass, insulation and ducts.
Open →Work out your glazing percentage and find out which Title 24 compliance path it puts you on.
Open →Find out which Title 24 compliance route suits your project and what each one takes to document.
Open →Screen your scope for the conditions that usually pull a licensed structural engineer in.
Open →Test your parcel against the statewide ADU and JADU standards before anyone bills you for a drawing.
Open →Seven answers surface the height, permit-history and use problems that stall most garage conversions.
Open →Compare the envelope your setbacks leave against the footprint your coverage percentage permits.
Open →Lay out the weeks from measure-up through plan check to the day the permit issues.
Open →Rate a drawing set against the items Bay Area reviewers write up most, before the counter does.
Open →Five questions, then a plain-language sequence of steps for a stop-work notice or code violation.
Open →Total your areas room by room, then see what that footprint means for drafting and Title 24 scope.
Open →Get a planning range for a permit-ready drawing set, broken out line by line.
Open →Planning range for a registered CF1R energy report, including the registry fee.
Open →Planning range for city permit and plan check fees across 23 Bay Area cities.
Open →Work out how thick your permit set is likely to be, and which drawings a Bay Area plan checker will go looking for.
Open →Price the field capture and as-built drafting for an existing building, and compare a tape measure against a 3D scan.
Open →Scope a commercial tenant improvement set: the sheets your city will expect, the consultants it pulls in, and an indicative drafting range.
Open →These tools give Bay Area planning ranges based on typical projects. Your site, your city and your scope all move the number. We give you a firm figure after a free consultation, once we have seen the drawings and the property.
Residential or commercial, drafting or Title 24 — send a few details and we'll follow up with next steps and a free quote.
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