NEW OFFICE LIGHTING
Capital cost: £200,000 Payback: six months – £400,000 in one year
NEW WINDOWS Capital cost: £350,000
SOLAR PANELS
Capital cost: £30,000 Payback: Five to six years
DEAL? DONE
As the fi rst surveys are completed for the non- domestic Green Deal, Carina Bailey looks at the opportunities for building engineers and the barriers that could prevent property owners taking advantage of the government’s fl agship scheme
T
he non-domestic Green Deal – the coalition’s fl agship policy – was launched in January, but are property owners aware of how it works? Richard
Hipkiss, the fi rst of two Green Deal advisers to be certifi ed as competent through the CIBSE Certifi cation Approval of Prior Experiential and Learning (APEL) route, suggests fi rms need to be educated about how the Green Deal can improve buildings and cut energy bills. Anecdotal evidence from Hipkiss,
director of digitalenergy, suggests that many businesses think the Green Deal is just a quick route to getting solar panels or ground source heat pumps, rather than improving the energy effi ciency of their buildings. A lack of specifi c marketing to the non-domestic market by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is just one of a number of challenges facing the policy. Hipkiss has a novel idea to overcome the
lack of promotion: make CIBSE the non- domestic Green Deal champion. ‘If it’s going
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to be a success, it needs a champion. DECC has its hands too full with the domestic market to be able to devote the attention the non- domestic scheme needs. If that champion is not going to be DECC it needs to be CIBSE.’ Hipkiss and his colleague, Adrian Sweetman, an adviser at digitalenergy, are now both registered as Green Deal advisers after completing the CIBSE Certifi cation APEL route. Between them they have conducted more than 30 assessments for property owners in the government’s Pioneer Places scheme, which offers funding for Green Deal surveys across a number of UK regions. Andrew Geens, who is the head of CIBSE
Certifi cation, believes that the policy could double the value of refurbishment and energy effi ciency projects for some CIBSE members. ‘Helping clients source more funding
should logically give them more work,’ explains Geens. ‘Small jobs will become bigger projects, or projects that wouldn’t have happened, could now go ahead.
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