Energy Code Compliance Forms: A Goldmine of Design Insights!
Many project teams think of Energy Code compliance forms as paperwork to complete at the end of a project. In reality, they can be one of the most valuable design tools available—helping architects and consultants make better decisions, coordinate more effectively, and improve building performance from the earliest stages of design.
Join Gina Rodda of Gabel Energy and Dave Intner, AIA, LEED AP, of Southern California Edison for an engaging one-hour session that demonstrates how Energy Code compliance documentation can support much more than code compliance. Learn how these forms can guide design decisions, verify project goals, improve coordination across disciplines, and support Zero Net Carbon Design (ZNCD), LEED certification, and high-performance building strategies.
Rather than treating compliance as the final step in a project, you'll discover how to use the Certificate of Compliance and performance modeling as practical tools throughout the design process to improve project outcomes and reduce costly coordination issues.
Earn 1 LU/HSW and 1 ZNCD CE HOUR!
Register Here!
During this course, you'll learn how to:
Determine which Energy Code requirements apply based on your project's scope, occupancy, and performance goals.
Compare available compliance pathways and identify the approach that best supports your project's objectives.
Use the Certificate of Compliance as a design coordination checklist to ensure construction documents align with project goals and code requirements.
Understand how the performance approach can help evaluate projected energy use and operational carbon while supporting Zero Net Carbon Design and LEED objectives.
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.