News analysis EPCs
Energy assessors will be
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When the system of
certifying a building’s
required to visit a site to
energy performance was
award a certificate
introduced last autumn, the
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move was widely welcomed as a
significant step towards cutting
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the carbon footprint of the
UK’s building stock. But, while
attention was focused on the
ratings applied to properties via
the new energy performance and
display energy certificates (EPCs
and DECs), underlying problems
with the certification process were
threatening to undermine the
whole structure.
One key problem that emerged
was so-called remote lodgement,
which was highlighted in the
March issue of the Journal. A
number of energy assessors –
those responsible for providing
certificates – complained about
practice of awarding a certificate
via third-party ‘data gatherers’,
likening this to driving a car using
someone else’s licence.
The Department of
Communities and Local
Government (DCLG) is now,
All present
in effect, banning this practice
for DECs and EPCs, which
are applied to public-sector
buildings. According to a DCLG
guidance document sent to
accrediting bodies in May, the
practice of “remote lodgements”
and correct?
of DECs will be regarded as
“unacceptable” from the end of
this month.
During a CIBSE seminar last
month on EPCs, an official from
DCLG, Peter Matthew, disclosed
Earlier this year the practice of providing energy
that departments in Whitehall had
performance certificates for buildings without ever
become increasingly “wobbly”
about the quality of EPCs. “Is it
visiting a site caused a furore. Now the government is
really worth basing our policies
on this if a lot of messages
responding by tightening the rules. Carina Bailey reports we’re hearing is that there are
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