A candid blog on the world of Energy Performance Certificates
Vid: East Anglian Energy Assessors One-Minute Pitch
Louise Ives of East Anglian Energy Assessors presents her business to BNI members in one minute (and eight seconds!).
Tags: dea-marketing
Number of Accredited Energy Assessors and Certificates
The latest number of accredited Domestic Energy Assessors, Non-Domestic, On-Construction and DEC Assessors plus the total number of all certificates issued up to 04 November 2008
Tags: dea-numbers, non-domestic-energy-assessor, display-energy-certificate, on-construction-domestic-energy-assessor
Quest Podcast Preamble
Thought I'd drop my preamble to the latest podcast with Quest I recorded yesterday as the topics are something I've been meaning to blog about anyway
Tags: epbd, energy-crunch, quest
Accreditation Schemes Get Tough With DEAs
It seems accreditation schemes may at last be getting the message after pressure from Govt., Domestic Energy Assessors, IHI and this site to strike-off corner-cutting lazy DEAs
Tags: domestic-energy-assessor
Energy Performance Certificate Presentation - Interesting
Very interesting presentation (podcast and slides available) from Dr Brenda Boardman to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas (APPGOPO) earlier this month, discussing the importance and potential benefits of Energy Performance Certificates. Recommended.
CLG to Research Effectiveness of EPCs
Research into the effectiveness of Energy Performance Certificates, including whether home-owners are following-up recommendations within, is to begin early 2009, Iain Wright has said.
Scotland: Number of Domestic Energy Assessors Over 400
The number of Domestic Energy Assessors approved to conduct Energy Performance Certificates in Scotland is over 400. It's about time we had a look at this market and how the system works oop North - 'cos they like to do different, don't they!
Tags: Scotland
DEA: Sorry it's my birthday, not coming!
Letting agent, Paul Endacott of 1stavenue.co.uk, is switched on to the Energy Performance Certificate. Unfortunately, most of the Domestic Energy Assessors he's used, aren't!
Tags: debris, domestic-energy-assessor
CLG Reveal Number of EPCs per Rating Band
A breakdown of the latest number of Energy Performance Certificates within each rating band has been revealed by the CLG. Total number of EPCs now produced: 1,395,979
What's The Future of our Economy?
Sunday armchair reading: where is our economy headed? Will house prices and market activity bounce back? Was peak oil a scare story?
Tags: debris
CLG Revise Accredited Non-Domestic Energy Assessor Numbers - Higher
The number of accredited non-domestic energy assessors on October 1st 2008 was not 471, as the CLG stated, but 751 - more than six times the forecasted numbers needed - according to an email John Morren received last week. As revealed here, 3000 NDEAs could soon flood the market in coming months - More numbers are inside.
Tags: non-domestic-energy-assessor, clg
Don't Forget - Landmark Offline Until Sunday
From 1900 hrs tonight (Saturday 8th November 2008) until Sunday 9th November (1900 hrs) at the earliest, Landmark will be offline so no EPC lodgements will be possible
CLG HIP Report Published - An Overview
The CLG quietly published an interim report into the operation of Home Information Packs, Energy Performance Certificates and Home Condition Reports last Friday. Here is a more in-depth overview of its findings which I actually believe is fairly constructive overall
Tags: home-condition-report, home-information-pack, energy-performance-certificate, clg
£2500 Grant Goes to Devon & Cornwall Home Inspectors Association
And the winner of NHER's £2500 Energy Assessor Community Grant goes to... the DCHI! Where many regional DEA and HI groups have collapsed, the DCHI have endured since 2006, building its memberbase to a very respectable number - Learn how it will spend its riches and how they operate
Institute of Home Inspection Call For OFT Enquiry into Panels
The Institute of Home Inspection (IHI) have called the 60% slice they keep from Domestic Energy Assessors fees 'obtuse and immoral' and are demanding an official OFT enquiry.
EPBD Helpline Closes 31st October 2008
The EPBD helpline will be reduced to email-only for six months from November 1st 2008, after which, it will be down to Domestic Energy Assessors, accreditation schemes and the CLG guidelines. If your question still can not be answered, it's down to you and your lawyer mate!
Tags: epbd, domestic-energy-assessor
DEAs Are Not 'energy professionals'
A Government co-funded report by the UK Green Building Council is calling for a radical strengthening of the EPC regime which, if implemented, would truly kickstart the second inevitable chapter for Domestic Energy Assessors.
CLG Publish Public Buildings Methodology
The CLG has today published its guide to the methodologies involved with the production of Operational Ratings, Display Energy Certificates and Advisory Reports.
Tags: clg-publications, display-energy-certificate, operational-rating, advisory-report
RICS Former President: 'regular energy certificates'
Former RICS president, Peter Fall, is calling for regularly updated energy certificates on homes to effect behaviour change in energy consumption. But how practical is it?
CLG Guide: Commercial EPC 'Requirements' Published
The CLG has published a guide to dates and events that trigger an EPC on commercial properties (non-domestic). Plus, respect yourself and your online reputation: keep out of trouble with your accreditation scheme.
Tags: clg, accreditation-scheme, dea-marketing
Non Domestic Energy Assessor Numbers - Official Figures
Guest blog-post from John Morren who, following a successful appeal to have his Freedom of Information request to the CLG overturned, reveals the latest official numbers of accredited non-domestic energy assessors. Seems there is an imminent oversupply in the pipeline, again!
Tags: non-domestic-energy-assessor, news
ePerformance News Launched - At Last!
Come and get it! ePerformance News - a quality Home Inspector Forum publication - is launched today after many months of it not... launching. Hopefully, normal service will again resume here! Home Information Pack
Tags: eperformance-news
Tories May Leave Home Information Packs Alone
An adviser to Grant Shapps - Tory shadow housing minister - says the party may change its plans to abolish HIPs by 2010
Tags: home-information-pack
Another New Housing Minister: Margaret Beckett
Margaret Beckett replaced Housing Minister, Caroline Flint, in Gordon Brown's latest reshuffle - the fourth minister in around 18 months! But we also have a new department of energy and climate change too, so where is this going? Who is running the gaff now?
Tags: clg, decc, energy-performance-certificate, home-information-pack, margaret-beckett, ed-milliband
CLG Guide: Oct 1st EPC & HIP Regulation Changes
The CLG has published its guide to the October 1st 2008 changes to the Energy Performance Certificate and Home Information Pack regulations - at last! Also, approved methodologies for EPC and DEC production were published this week, including approved software applications for SAP 2005, SBEM, DSM and ORCalc.
Tags: clg, energy-performance-certificate, home-information-pack, rdsap, sap, sbem, dsm, orcalc
EPCs: Social Housing Pilot Summary
The CLG today published a final evaluation report into the pilot roll-out of Energy Performance Certificates to social housing and rental properties last year. Also, I'm not going to mention rental properties requiring EPCs from today... but work instructions are definitely up!
DEA Workshop: Accreditation Schemes Get 12 Months to Improve
The poorest performing accreditation schemes have been warned they have 12 months to improve or risk losing their licence. That was one of the messages presented to representatives of Domestic ENergy Assessors at the latest CLG-hosted DEA Workshop held on Tuesday (23rd Sept 08). Also, lack of interest from Trading Standards and the Advertising Standards Authority on both estate agent compliance and training providers respectively.
Tags: dea-workshop, ihi, clg, accreditation-schemes
Payable on Demand - A Lesson From The Past
Companies and indie energy assessors with payable on demand loans and overdrafts should protect themselves if past experiences are anything to go by.
Tags: Domestic-Energy-Assessor
Ireland Officially in Recession
Domestic Energy Assessors will officially discover today, what they probably already know: Ireland is in recession.
ProDEA is Launched
ProDEA, a new national organisation for energy assessors, has today announced its official launch. But is it ready? And what is it?
Tags: prodea, domestic-energy-assessor
The DEA Training Company Sell-off
It seems DEA and HI training companies are sensing they have finally pipped this cherry - One company training Domestic Energy Assessors in Surrey is up for sale at £115k and another is rumoured to be up for £8 million!
Tags: dea-training
£2500 Cash For Grabs from National Energy Services
National Energy Services are throwing a £2500 cash grant to the most worthy support group for energy assessors or Home Inspectors. Only a few weeks to apply so get cracking now.
Tags: nher, regional-groups
EPC Data Gatherers in Parliament
Tory shadow minister Grant Shapps receives clarification on the use of EPC data gatherers plus answers on property information questionnaires and the shelf life of Home Information Packs
How To Cut 8 Million Tonnes of Carbon Emissions - Guaranteed
Terry Wyatt of Hoare Lea and past CIBSE president reveals an interesting proposal which is both cheap, easy to do, and, he claims, obviates the need for further power stations! See how our electric grid performed today at 3:45 and 5:45 - Terry says this can be avoided through Dynamic Demand Management
CLG: No HIPs Review During Market Slump
Housing Minister Caroline Flint on Wednesday ruled out any Home Information Pack review until after the housing market returns to normal conditions, she told Lib Dem Mark Oaten in a written parliamentary answer
Tags: home-information-pack, clg
£910m Energy Package but Nowt for Energy Assessors
Domestic Energy Assessors might as well become loft insulators following today's Govt announcement of £910m funding towards energy efficiency measures. Are Energy Performance Certificates are in danger of becoming financially punitive to homeowners and landlords?
Tags: energy-crisis, energy-performance-certificate, government
Suspend Home Information Packs Demand Tories
Grant Shapps, Tory Shadow Housing Minister, wants Gordon Brown to suspend Home Information Packs. He lists five reasons, but two of them appear to be the same ones repeated!
Tags: home-information-pack
HIPs: First Day Marketing Set for 1st Jan 2009
The DCLG has confirmed that First Day Marketing will begin 1st January 2009, ending the current temporary provisions allowing homes to be marketed without an Home Information Pack, providing one has been commissioned.
Tags: clg, home-information-pack
CLG Extend Energy Performance Certificate Validity to Three Years
The CLG has today announced that Energy Performance Certificates within a Home Information Pack will, from October 1st 2008, be valid for three years. Non-domestic EPC requirements set back until 4th January 2009 - bang up to the EU limit - and... no clarification of the mass confusion surrounding the domestic and rental transitional EPC arrangements!
Tags: clg, energy-performance-certificate, home-information-pack, news
RdSAP Update Delayed
Guess what, the upcoming update to RdSAP, due this weekend, has apparently been delayed
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