CIBSE campaign Compliance
The compliance charter
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The government must set targets for air conditioning and F-gas compliance that the enforcing body agrees are achievable and sign will up to.
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The government must improve
communication with UK companies informing them of their obligations to comply with air conditioning inspection and F-gas legislation.
The UK government must acknowledge
that air conditioning inspection compliance is not working and must move the responsibility for enforcement away from Trading Standards to a body which is more interested and able to act.
Why comply?
The costs of non-compliance impact upon:
Businesses that have invested in skills to deliver the statutory inspection regime, but are not seeing uptake on that investment.
Building owners and operators, who are missing tangible cost savings arising from compliance.
Government, which has implemented the relevant EU Directives, but cannot demonstrate genuine implementation and compliance .
The Climate Change Committee, which will be concerned that targets for cutting emissions via these regulatory measures are clearly not being achieved, jeopardising the UK carbon budget.
Why it matters
CIBSE currently estimates that less than five per cent of the air conditioning systems qualifying for inspection have had them undertaken.
The current enforcement of air conditioning inspections is clearly not adequate. It is difficult for trading standards officers to keep on top of their duty to enforce inspections. As a result, building owners and managers may not be aware of, or benefit from, potential savings that an aircon inspection report would otherwise have highlighted.
An air conditioning report (ACR) is produced as a result of the inspection, with recommendations on how the systems could be run more efficiently, but there is currently no mandatory requirement for the lodgement of the report with the register of energy performance certificates (EPCs) – and therefore no way to monitor that the inspections were completed, the reports were given to the relevant persons or that any carbon was saved as a result of the reports.
With the mandatory lodgement, however, all records of ACRs would be stored on a centralised system, similar to the method used for both
EPCs and display energy certificates.
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