Future-ready electrical backbone, inspection-ready today

Location

Palo Alto, CA

Scope

New construction

We combine AI modeling with hands-on experience to deliver engineering plans that are accurate, buildable, and easy to inspect.

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Summary

A Title 24 compliant high-demand electrical design that supports complex lighting today and adds EV, solar, and storage later without a main service upgrade, perfect for a modern luxury home.

Challenges

• Designing a high-demand electrical system for a luxury home that could satisfy the energy-use limits of California’s Title 24 code.

• Building a future-ready connection system for smart home tech, EV charging, and solar without final specifications.

Approach

An electrical plan is a statement about a home’s future. We mapped lighting loads, then sized service with headroom for EV charging and battery storage. We ran NEC load calculations with demand factors, selected a right-sized main service with spare spaces, and reserved a clean path for future PV backfeed and storage. Circuits were grouped by zone to streamline installation and inspection. Dedicated circuits support kitchen, laundry, and mechanical equipment, with voltage-drop kept in check by sensible home-run lengths. Panel schedules were built for clear labeling and growth. We planned EV-ready circuits and a simple interconnect path so upgrades do not disturb finishes. Device locations were coordinated with interior elevations to reduce wall conflicts.

Lighting is high efficacy with dimming where it matters and vacancy sensors where required, aligned to Title 24. Layers are organized for task, ambient, and accent so rooms feel right at any time of day. Low-voltage pathways support data, access points, and security with coverage that suits the plan. The result is a robust, code compliant system that is easy to inspect, simple to maintain, and ready for what is next.