Energy Assessors
Commercial EPCs must be produced by an accredited energy assessor who is a member of a Government approved accreditation scheme and who has visited the premises.
Only accredited energy assessors can produce EPCs for business premises. They analyse how buildings are constructed, insulated and serviced, and the type of fuel being used. If you are looking to buy a property to run your business from, comparing EPCs can help you find the most energy efficient premises.
Energy assessors requirements:
have a duty of care and hold responsibility for the EPC throughout the ten years it is validmust produce an EPC using the correct government approved software for the type of buildingcan appoint an individual or a team to help them gather information as long as the team members work under their directionare expected to visit business properties in person to make sure the information others have gathered is accurateEnergy assessors responsibilities:
conducting energy assessments, producing EPCs and lodging them with their accreditation schemeensuring that their assistants have the technical ability to carry out the work, are 'fit and proper' and have the proper insurance in placeall actions, data and output of EPCs and recommendation reports as if they themselves had collected the dataacting in an independent mannerCommercial Business Building Types: Levels 1-3
There are three levels of business building types and the energy assessor must be trained, qualified and accredited for the particular type of building and the associated government approved software:
level three: covers simple, existing properties including small buildings or houses that have been converted to business use, eg doctors' surgeries, restaurants etc and uses software based on the Simplified Building Energy Model (SBEM)level four: covers other new and existing properties, eg purpose built office blocks and uses software based on SBEMlevel five: covers new and existing properties incorporating complex or innovative energy efficiency feature for which SBEM is not suitable eg complex factories and large office buildings and uses Dynamic Simulation Model toolsECO Reports UK energy assessors are energy performance certificate experts who are RICS accredited commercial energy assessors and able to provide EPC reports at levels 3, 4 and 5 of complexity...
Regions covered: Northern England: Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear. Yorkshire and Humberside: Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire. East Midlands: Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire, Nottinghamshire. East Anglia: Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, Suffolk. South East: Greater London, Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey, West Sussex. South West: Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire. West Midlands: Hereford and Worcestershire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, West Midlands. North West: Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside Wales: Clwyd, Dyfed, Gwent, Gwynedd, Mid Glamorgan, Powys, South Glamorgan, West Glamorgan. Scotland: Grampian, Tayside, Fife, Lothian, Central, Borders, Strathclyde, Clydeside, Dumfries and Galloway, Highlands.
Towns covered: North: Manchester, Yorkshire, Tyneside, Liverpool, Sheffield, Leeds, Teesside, Birkenhead, Hull, Bradford, Preston, Blackpool, Newcastle upon Tyne. Midlands: Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester, Coventry, Stoke-on-Trent, Wolverhampton, Derby, Northampton, Dudley. South East: London, Brighton, Portsmouth, Reading, Croydon, Barnet, Southampton, Ealing, Bromley, Enfield, Southend, Lambeth, Brent, Wandsworth, Lewisham, Newham, Southwark, Aldershot, Hillingdon, Redbridge, Luton, Havering, Greenwich, Waltham Forest, Haringey, Hounslow, Bexley, Harrow, Hackney, Camden, Tower Hamlets, Merton, Luton, Milton Keynes. South West: Bristol, Plymouth, Bournemouth, Swindon, Poole, Gloucester, Torbay, Exeter, Cheltenham, Bath, Weston-Super-Mare, Torquay, Kingswood, Taunton, Weymouth, Paignton, Stroud, Salisbury, Yeovil. Wales: Cardiff, Swansea, Newport, Pontypool, Islwyn, Prestatyn, Rhondda, Barry, Cwmbran, Llanelli, Neath, Pontypridd, Wrexham. Scotland: Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Dundee, Falkirk, Paisley, East Kilbride, Greenock, Blantyre, Ayr, Livingston, Cumbernauld, Hamilton, Kirkcaldy, Dumbarton, Stirling, Glenrothes, Inverness, Kilmarnock, Perth, Coatbridge, Dunfermline, Dalkeith, Irvine.
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