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Understanding what customers think of EPCs

09 April 2015

Thanks to everyone who has been promoting our customer feedback questionnaire, allowing the public to rate their experience of obtaining their EPC. Our competition to win a Galaxy tab is now closed but over the 13 months for which it ran we distributed 10 tablets to the lucky winners. We also received lots of valuable feedback from the public which as you would imagine, demonstrates that Elmhurst Energy Members do a good job of offering

New: On Construction Domestic Energy Assessors CPD course -

08 April 2015

OCDEA Masterclass CPD Elmhurst Energy have launched a new CPD course aimed at existing On Construction Domestic Energy Assessors (OCDEAs). The course has been developed to address some of the lesser known subjects that OCDEAs will encounter and also broaden the services assessors can offer by guiding them through procedures for assessing conversions and extensions. The course includes; Procedures for completing compliance calculations for extensions in accordance with Part L1B, with practical workshops How

Date for Part L 2013 - England

08 April 2015

Date for Part L 2013 (England) Transitional Provisions has passed House builders who submitted applications to Building Control ahead of the implementation of Part L1A 2013 in England should note that the date by which work should be commenced in order to ensure the site fully meets the transitional provisions has now expired. To qualify to meet the transitional provisions put in place for Part L1A 2013 an initial notice, building notice or full plans

GiSBEM Training day – 5 Hours CPD

08 April 2015

Elmhurst Energy will be hosting a one day software training day, with GiSBEM, on Thursday 14th May 2015. We have worked with a number of software providers to offer our Non Domestic customers SBEM software. View all approved Elmhurst’s Non Domestic software. GiSBEM is a Graphical Interface for iSBEM and designed to increase the efficiency of data input. One of the key time saving features are you don’t need to calculate and key all zone

DEC consultation - No news is good news?

02 April 2015

As previously reported, Elmhurst Energy threw all its energy into responding to the DEC Consultation, we could see no sense in what DCLG were proposing, it would save very little money, it would undermine current and future energy saving commitments and it was, in our view, contrary to an express requirement of the EPBD EU Directive. We of course responded directly to the DCLG but we also wrote to members and lobbied both National and

Next steps to Zero Carbon Homes: Small site exemptions announced

02 April 2015

Last November the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) issued a consultation ‘Next Steps to zero carbon homes – small site exemption’ to invite views on a proposed exemption for smaller housing sites from the ‘full’ zero carbon standards to be introduced in 2016. To achieve zero carbon homes the government proposed an uplift in building regulations roughly equivalent to code level 4 - a 19% improvement over 2013 standards, and a system to

ECO software is now live

01 April 2015

ECO2 starts today, 1st April 2015 with the same aims as ECO1 which is to save carbon and remove householders from fuel poverty. ECO 2 will run until March 2017. Elmhurst’s fully compliant ECO software application has now been released. Existing users will automatically gain access to the new software, new users can apply to use the software here. Features and Benefits One single application can calculate existing ECO scores and ECO 2 scores

Our viewpoint on Assessors getting 'Struck Off’

24 March 2015

‘Struck Off’ Assessors : An accreditation body’s viewpoint Elmhurst Energy Operations Director Martyn Reed looks at how many of its assessors really have their accreditation withdrawn, and the important role that accreditation bodies play in maintaining the value of EPCs There has been a lot written recently about QA and the ability of an accreditation body to revoke an individual's membership. The recent concern expressed that the volume

Changes to Fees for lodging documents on the Energy Performance Certificate Registers

17 March 2015

We’ve received the notice below from DCLG advising of price changes In Northern Ireland: Changes to Fees for lodging documents on the Energy Performance Certificate Registers The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008 (as amended), requires energy performance certificates and recommendation reports; display energy certificates and advisory reports; and air-conditioning inspection reports to be lodged on registers maintained by a Register Keeper. Northern Ireland, England and Wales have a joint contract

Amendments to Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012, April 2015

17 March 2015

We’ve received the notice below from DCLG advising of price changes in England and Wales: Amendments to Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012, April 2015 The Department has now laid in Parliament amendments to the Energy Performance of Buildings Regulations (England and Wales) 2012. These changes can be found at: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/uksi/2015/609. The most important update for schemes is that the statutory fees for lodging the data from which certificates and reports may be

Latest News

Understanding what customers think of EPCs

New: On Construction Domestic Energy Assessors CPD course -

Date for Part L 2013 - England

GiSBEM Training day – 5 Hours CPD

DEC consultation - No news is good news?

Next steps to Zero Carbon Homes: Small site exemptions announced

ECO software is now live

Our viewpoint on Assessors getting 'Struck Off’

Changes to Fees for lodging documents on the Energy Performance Certificate Registers

Amendments to Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012, April 2015

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