Announcement
Vent-Axia supports BEAMA’s EPC Reform paper to improve IAQ
BEAMA’s position paper urges the Government to broaden the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) remit to recognise and assess the indoor air quality (IAQ) of homes.
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he paper, titled ‘Reforming Energy Performance Certificates for Indoor Air Quality’, outlines a simple
example of how the assessment can work to improve IAQ in our homes. Poor quality housing in the UK costs the NHS approximately £1.4bn annually due to illnesses stemming from substandard living conditions including poor indoor air quality due to inadequate ventilation. Around 10% of UK residents live in inadequate housing, with issues like dampness, mould and insufficient heating contributing to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, mental health problems and increased mortality.
Energy Performance Certificates (EPCs) currently focus on energy efficiency, neglecting the health impacts of ventilation and air quality. BEAMA proposes integrating IAQ assessments
Product News All-in-one motion monitoring
Wieland Electric presents the samos Pro Motion, a compact safety controller with integrated motion functionality.
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total of six TÜV-certified motion function blocks ensure that up to 60% fewer modules are required, meaning more space is available in the control cabinet than with comparable providers. The compact, programmable controller enables safe standstill monitoring, even with vertical and slow-moving axes, and also scores points with an anti-vibration toolbox for macro and micro vibrations.
Whether mechanical engineering or intralogistics - wherever reliable standstill, speed, direction and position monitoring is required - the compact safety controller from Wieland Electric, with up to 70 kHz motion inputs on the base module is suitable. The integrated motion function modules include safe standstill monitoring (SSM).
Also on board the samos Pro Motion is an anti-vibration toolbox, which is available via the samos Plan6 software and supports reliable standstill monitoring. This is precisely where vibrations can occur, which can be resolved using the appropriate functions. While the ‘standstill’ function module comes into play for macro vibrations, Wieland Electric has built a professional ‘vibration filter’ into the motion functions for micro vibrations.
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into the EPC framework. With over 450,000 EPCs lodged in England and Wales in the first quarter of 2023, this presents a significant opportunity to make a simple assessment of a home’s ventilation performance when undergoing an EPC. “At Vent-Axia we support BEAMA’s position statement on EPCs since we are committed to improving IAQ for the nation. Expanding EPCs to cover IAQ assessment is a common-sense approach to what is a national health crisis, with lung diseases responsible for one in eight emergency hospital admissions in England last year. Now is the right time to enforce the principle that a healthy home is a basic human right,” said Joseph Brawn, product and marketing director at Vent-Axia.
The Building Regulations do address ventilation in homes in Approved Document Part F, Vol 1: “There shall be adequate means of
ventilation provided for people in a building”. However, BEAMA questions at what point is ventilation assessed to ensure this is achieved without a link to a transactional opportunity. BEAMA’s position paper explains that expanding the EPC framework to incorporate IAQ assessments and reported outcomes can be achieved by a very simple yet informative checklist, accompanied by minimum training and data capture with the Home Energy Model EPC Wrapper. BEAMA recommends a simple IAQ evaluation within the EPC process with mechanical ventilation system checks. This assessment would use existing ventilation guidelines (Approved Document F) and be integrated into sale and rental evaluations to help improve IAQ in our homes. +44 (0)344 856 0590
www.vent-axia.com
This allows users to find the optimum compromise between availability and safety within the framework of three options.
Wieland Electric also offers powerful programming software for the new samos Pro Motion. The intuitive samos Plan6 configuration tool has an extensive library of TÜV-certified function blocks that contain typical, application-specific safety functions. 01483 531213 /
www.wieland.co.uk
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