Energy code without the fog.
HERS ratings, Title 24 documentation, and whole-house audits — from a one-room cottage to a 27,000-square-foot estate. We work with every party on the job so the building actually performs.
Since 2009
Southern California practice
30+ years
Building science at the principals
Cottage to 27,000 sf
The protocol does not change
No-cost BD training
Title 24 for building departments
What we do
One practice for the paper and the field.
Mechanical
High-performance HVAC
Heat pumps, right-sized equipment, sealed ducts, and balanced ventilation that actually matches the house.
Water heating
High-performance plumbing
Heat-pump water heaters, compact manifolds, insulated lines, and recirculation that earns its keep.
Accessory dwellings
ADUs
Title 24, HERS, HVAC, and water heating for backyard units — documented so the ADU gets a permit, not a punch list.
Field verification
HERS ratings
Third-party Home Energy Rating System tests for new construction, additions, ADUs, and alterations — from a single-room cottage to a 27,000-square-foot estate.
Energy code
Title 24 documentation
Compliance documentation for California’s Building Energy Efficiency Standards — residential and nonresidential — written so plans examiners can actually read it.
Existing homes
Whole-house audits
Unbiased building-science investigations for high bills, comfort complaints, and retrofit planning. We tell you what to fix first — not what is easiest to sell.
Workforce
Building performance training
Hands-on instruction for contractors, energy managers, and BPI Building Analyst candidates. We have proctored hundreds of candidates across California.
Public agencies
Energy code for building departments
No-cost Title 24 Part 6 instruction for California building departments — plans examiners, inspectors, and counter staff. Offered as a public service.
Health of the house
Indoor air & filtration
Airflow, filtration, and pressure diagnostics when the house feels wrong — stuffy rooms, backdrafting, dust that never settles, or a remodel that sealed the envelope and forgot the air.
How a job runs
No surprise measures the week of drywall.
California energy code is specific. We make each stakeholder’s role equally specific — then we show up and measure.
01
Call or send the job
A permit set, a failing CF3R, a high bill, or a building department that wants a class. We will tell you what we need and what we do not.
02
Scope it in plain language
Which tests, which forms, which site visits, and who owns each signature. No surprise HERS measures the week of drywall.
03
Show up and measure
Field work on the building’s schedule. Results registered the same day whenever the provider and the site allow it.
04
Leave you with a path
A passing rating, a punch list, or a training deck — and a phone number that still works after the invoice.
The firm
A veteran-owned shop that still answers the phone.
Anchors Aweigh Energy was started in 2009 on a simple idea: detailed, unbiased information for the people who have to decide. The principals bring more than thirty years of building science and engineering. CEO Bruce Cheney has been instructing building departments on energy code since 2013.
- Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business
- HERS raters via CHEERS
- Subject-matter experts for three California IOUs
- BPI Building Analyst training and proctoring
- Title 24 Part 6 instructors to building departments since 2013
Who calls.
Homeowners
High bills, a remodel, an ADU, or a house that never quite got comfortable. We work for you, not for the contractor’s upsell.
Builders & trades
New construction, additions, changeouts. We keep the HERS path and the Title 24 path from colliding at inspection.
Architects & designers
Early advice on which measures you are triggering, so the details on sheet A-4.2 match the CF1R.
Building departments
No-cost Title 24 instruction for examiners, inspectors, and counter staff. Offered since 2013.
Field notes
Read before you remodel.
Service area
Southern California, out of San Diego.
- San Diego County
- Orange County
- Riverside County
- San Bernardino County
- Los Angeles County
- Imperial County
- Ventura County
Ready when you are
If the energy code has you turned around, pick up the phone.
Anyone working construction in California feels the same way. We will tell you what is required, who signs what, and when to schedule the test.