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ow was your Christmas? Judging by the mild, wet winter it probably was not very white and bearing in mind the recent government U-turns on environmental policy it probably wasn’t
very green either. The announcement by Eric Pickles that the next version of Part L
would not contain consequential improvements (page 7) means the opportunity to improve the energy performance of up to 2 million homes has been squandered once again (Labour minister John Healey did exactly the same thing in 2009.) The cost to the insulation and metering industry will be immense. The insulation industry is already reeling from foot-dragging on the Green Deal and Energy Company Obligation, which means both are behind schedule. They were due to replace grants from the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT), which ended on 31 December. The resultant drop in demand has hit fi rms hard, with the Insulation Industry Forum calculating that 816 jobs were lost around Christmas as a result. Meanwhile the backtracking on Display Energy Certifi cates (DECs)
has left even the mild mannered Paul Morrell ‘massively frustrated’. DECs for public buildings between 500m2 and 999m2 will now only be required every 10 years, rather than annually. Government seems to regard Energy
Backtracking on Display Energy Certifi cates has left even the mild mannered Paul Morrell ‘massively frustrated’
Performance Certifi cates as the prime tool to ensure minimum levels of energy effi ciency, but EPCs measure predicted use, not actual, and research by the Better Buildings Partnership and Jones Lang LaSalle has revealed just how misleading they can be (page 20). It compared offi ces with an EPC rating of B and E, and found that, in terms of actual energy use, the lower rated building was 66% times more effi cient. Policymakers in the UK seem to be going in
the opposite direction to authorities in Australia and the US, where mandatory energy labelling is becoming more prevelant. On page 39 you will fi nd our careers special, which contains a complete visual guide to the industry (feel free to hand it to anybody who asks what a building services engineer does), career tips, and the Hays/CIBSE 2012 salary guide. And for those of you lucky (or well behaved) enough to receive a
tablet device from Santa at Christmas, we’ve rounded up the best of the growing number of apps for the building services industry. If you can wrestle your iPAD or Nexus from other family members’ grabby hands, you might even have a chance of downloading them.
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