Nov 28
Display Energy Performance Certificates And Commercial EPC.
Posted: under Commercial EPC, Display Energy Performance Certificate DEC, On Construction Energy Assessment.
Tags: Commercial EPC, DEC, Display energy performance certificate, EPC, NDEPC, On Construction Energy AssessmentNovember 28th, 2008
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State
On October 1st Iain Wright MP who is the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State gave a speech at the Governor’s House in London on the final Rollout of EPC’s for both residential and commercial energy performance certificates in England and Wales. The following information is a few extracts from that speech.
“Six months ago, at the time Energy Performance Certificates for newly built homes and larger commercial buildings were introduced, I was invited to speak to some of you about the implementation of the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive. At the time, I described the Directive, as a huge programme of work, a huge challenge and a huge opportunity - affecting all of us - private, public, property and energy sectors, and most importantly with the potential to affect every householder in the UK.”
As many NDEA’s and companies who employ non domestic energy assessors will agree, it has been a long arduous task from the introduction of home inspectors (HI) training all the way through to where we stand today in terms of preparing the IT systems, marketing etc and I believe that some companies may still not truly be ready for Jan 4th.
“Today public buildings are showing Display Energy Certificates - rating how much energy a public sector building has actually used.
DECs are also a valuable tool in the fight against climate change. They show how building performance can be improved, saving not only carbon but public money. For the first time, visitors and staff can see just how much energy a building is using and also whether this has gone up or down over the last three years.”
As a search / home information pack provider we spend a lot of time in the councils around the country and the general consensus is that Display Energy Certificates are not being displayed, whether this is because they are being hidden or because they have not been carried out yet I don’t know, but I for one will be keeping my eyes open.
