It can sometimes be quite hard to quote accurately for a commercial energy assessment. You want to be competitive. You don’t want to undersell yourself and devalue your service. But, of course, you’d like the work.

You receive an enquiry. You ask the usual questions; the address of the property, the type of building that it is – retail, industrial, office etc. Then comes the ‘big’ one. How big is it? What’s the total floor area? The answer comes. Erm, well, it’s got two floors, it’s a sort of house turned into a commercial building. Or you get it’s about 100sq metres, only to arrive on site and it’s three times that and you’ve quoted a fixed price. Some you win, some you lose eh? The client won’t pay you to come out and do a pre-survey just so that you can quote accurately.

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So as a selling home owner or a landlord you will have come across the need to have an Energy Performance Certificate and had a domestic energy assessment carried out. This involves a visual inspection on the property and generates a report based on the data collected on site by the domestic energy assessor (DEA).

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With Energy Performance Certificates, both Residential and Commercial, finally bedding in and becoming more widespread people often ask me “What is the difference between a Residential and Commercial EPC?” and, of course, why it is more expensive.

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What an event! I spent two days at Ecobuild Earls Court 3rd and 4th March 2009 and it was close to information overload! There was a lot to see that was really applicable and interesting to any domestic energy assessor (DEA) now and for sure in the future. There were also such things that are not part of the energy assessment at the moment – but may well be in a few years!

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The CLG (Communities and Local Governments) has produced some guidance and proposed changes on the use of data collectors for issuing Energy Performance Certificates. The changes are very much inline with the concerns we hold and detailed in ‘Is your EPC carried out by a data collector?‘

The following has been circulated to the Accreditation Schemes for their and their members input though it seems unlikely that it will change to a large degree.

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We have seen the rise of commercial EPC instructions within the North-East, especially within Newcastle and Sunderland over the past month. It has been pleasing to receive enquires mainly from commercial agents and solicitors acting on their now legal requirements though we are happy to work with individual owners direct.

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Energy Performance Certificates are mainly undertaken by fully licensed, accredited and insured energy assessors. However, the concerning rise of data collectors within the industry is becoming more aparent and could potentially threaten the quality and reliability of the issued Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) and the livelihood of those who are actually ‘qualified’ to issue the certification.

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As this is our first post on our new blog I would like to say a ‘big’ welcome to all visitors and a big ‘thank you’ to all of the industry experts who have shown an interest in participating and writing within our blog.

We are excited about the upcoming features and articles we have planned and look forward to hearing and reading your thoughts and comments on these.

We are very interested in hearing from other ‘industry experts’ and ‘bloggers’ within our niche. We will be taking a very inclusive approach to our blog.

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