2025 Title 24 and Envelope & Embodied Carbon
Nonresidential, Hotel/Motel & Multifamily Buildings
California's 2025 Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Title 24, Part 6) introduce significant updates to building envelope requirements for nonresidential, hotel/motel, and multifamily projects, while CALGreen (Title 24, Part 11) expands the industry's focus on embodied carbon and low-carbon construction. Together, these changes are reshaping how architects and design teams approach building performance, material selection, and code compliance.
Join Gina Rodda of Gabel Energy and Dave Intner, AIA, LEED AP, of Southern California Edison for an in-depth training that translates the latest code requirements into practical design strategies. This course will review updates to roofs, walls, floors, fenestration, and other building envelope components across new construction, additions, and alterations, while also exploring California's growing emphasis on embodied carbon reduction.
Whether you're designing a new multifamily development, renovating an existing commercial building, or preparing projects for the 2025 code cycle, this session will help you understand what has changed, why it matters, and how to apply these requirements with confidence.
Earn 1 LU/HSW and 1 ZNCD CE HOUR!
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During this course, you'll learn how to:
Identify which sections of the 2025 Energy Code apply to nonresidential, hotel/motel, and multifamily projects.
Apply updated envelope requirements for roofs, walls, floors, fenestration, and solid doors across new construction, additions, and alterations.
Understand how Energy Code requirements differ between newly constructed spaces and alteration projects.
Explain the role of embodied carbon in California's climate and decarbonization goals.
Learn practical strategies for measuring and reducing embodied carbon and meeting the new requirements established under Title 24 Part 11 (CALGreen).
This course is designed for architects, designers, engineers, energy consultants, contractors, building officials, and other professionals seeking to stay ahead of California's evolving building codes while delivering healthier, more energy-efficient, and climate-responsive buildings.
About the Instructors
Gina Rodda is currently the Owner of Gabel Energy out of Castro Valley, California, and has been in the energy modeling field since 1991. She is an energy analyst performing a wide range of responsibilities in both residential and nonresidential construction pertaining to compliance standards and energy modeling within the United States, while specializing in California Building Code. California local ordinances (or Reach codes) supporting electrification and electric preferred for multifamily, hotel/motel and nonresidential buildings dictates much of the work Gabel Energy provides in Northern California in which Gabel Energy has been an active leader in heat pump mechanical equipment design choices as supported by the Energy Code and compliance software modeling.
Gina has worked with Energy Code Ace as a subject matter expert developing and supporting trainings, resources and tools on the Residential and Nonresidential Title 24 Building Energy Efficiency Standards for building department staff, energy consultants, engineers, contractors and architects.
Dave Intner is a Licensed Architect, LEED AP, and Certified Energy Manager with Southern California Edison’s Codes & Standards team. A graduate of Cal Poly SLO, Dave provides education and outreach supporting Building Decarbonization and Energy Code Compliance Improvement. He leads several initiatives focusing on zero net carbon design and energy codes, including case study books showcasing nonresidential and multifamily Zero Net Carbon design projects. Other roles at SCE have included managing the field engineering group and providing direct design and incentive support to high-performing LEED and net-zero buildings in the Savings by Design Program.
Prior to SCE, Dave practiced architecture for 15 years on buildings of just about every type including custom residential, affordable housing, university buildings, and cultural facilities. A LEED Accredited Professional for over 20 years, Dave also guided several early high-performance projects through the full LEED certification process.
Dave is the current Vice Chair of the AIA California Climate Action Committee, is a board member of CABEC (the California Building Energy Consultants), a past board member of USGBC Los Angeles and has served on the LEED Energy and Atmosphere Technical Advisory Group (EA-TAG). He is also a Past President of the AIA Ventura County.