Commercial Energy Surveyor

81% of commercial properties breaking Commercial EPC regulations

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:18:52 +0000

NHER has recently published research in regard to the compliance of the commercial EPC legislation. The results and published report is quite shocking. “In a mystery shopping exercise to check on compliance with European and UK law relating to the energy efficiency of buildings in the commercial property sector, NHER discovered that more than 80% of [...]

Google streetview helps with commercial EPC quotes

admin — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 08:28:33 +0000

It can sometimes be quite hard to quote accurately for a commercial energy assessment. You want to be competitive. You don’t want to undersell yourself and devalue your service. But, of course, you’d like the work. You receive an enquiry. You ask the usual questions; the address of the property, the type of building that it [...]

Is your Domestic Energy Assessment being carried out correctly?

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:30:27 +0000

So as a selling home owner or a landlord you will have come across the need to have an Energy Performance Certificate and had a domestic energy assessment carried out. This involves a visual inspection on the property and generates a report based on the data collected on site by the domestic energy assessor (DEA). It [...]

Commercial and Domestic EPC differences

admin — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:10:32 +0000

With Energy Performance Certificates, both Residential and Commercial, finally bedding in and becoming more widespread people often ask me “What is the difference between a Residential and Commercial EPC?” and, of course, why it is more expensive. As I always try to explain to people the difference between the two is the level of detail required. [...]

Ecobuild at Earls Court - Review

admin — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:05:53 +0000

What an event! I spent two days at Ecobuild Earls Court 3rd and 4th March 2009 and it was close to information overload! There was a lot to see that was really applicable and interesting to any domestic energy assessor (DEA) now and for sure in the future. There were also such [...]

The end of data collection for Energy Performance Certificates?

admin — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:19:03 +0000

The CLG (Communities and Local Governments) has produced some guidance and proposed changes on the use of data collectors for issuing Energy Performance Certificates. The changes are very much inline with the concerns we hold and detailed in ‘Is your EPC carried out by a data collector?‘ The following has been circulated to the Accreditation Schemes [...]

So you need a Commercial EPC in the North-East

admin — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 08:47:14 +0000

We have seen the rise of commercial EPC instructions within the North-East, especially within Newcastle and Sunderland over the past month. It has been pleasing to receive enquires mainly from commercial agents and solicitors acting on their now legal requirements though we are happy to work with individual owners direct. As we are based in Tyneside [...]

Is your EPC carried out by a data collector?

admin — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:50:06 +0000

Energy Performance Certificates are mainly undertaken by fully licensed, accredited and insured energy assessors. However, the concerning rise of data collectors within the industry is becoming more aparent and could potentially threaten the quality and reliability of the issued Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and the livelihood of those who are actually ‘qualified’ to issue the [...]

Commercial Energy Surveyor Blog - goes live

admin — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:18:29 +0000

As this is our first post on our new blog I would like to say a ‘big’ welcome to all visitors and a big ‘thank you’ to all of the industry experts who have shown an interest in participating and writing within our blog. We are excited about the upcoming features and articles we have planned [...]