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Elmhurst Energy first accreditation body with Section 6 approval for new build in Scotland.

14 April 2015

Elmhurst Energy is delighted to announce that its excellent Design SAP software has been approved by BRE as meeting the requirements of SAP 9.92 and Section 6 Requirements that will be mandatory in Scotland from October of this year. The software will be released automatically to existing customers later this month. This will be your first opportunity to model house types to the news standards. Request a free demo of Design SAP 2012 here Not a

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

Go Software

09 April 2015

Go Software In the last couple of weeks we have launched a range of brand new mobile software designed especially for domestic energy assessors. The software is purpose-built and intuitive, simplifying the steps to completing an assessment in whatever location you choose. You have the option by using Elmhurst's GO Capture, our Free app for capturing and organising evidence, alongside Elmhurst's RdSAP GO, to gather and catalogue your evidence efficiently, in the order of your choice. RdSAP

Training courses in Scotland and Northern Ireland

09 April 2015

Elmhurst Energy serves a significant and growing community of energy assessors both in Scotland and Northern Ireland. We have been delivering regional training for some time and our recent customer survey suggests that there is an appetite for even more of this in these communities. As a result we have scheduled three new celtic energy assessor courses. Two taking place in the Maldron Hotel in Belfast, Northern Ireland and one in Scotland’s capital, The Capital

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

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

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

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

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

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

Latest News

Elmhurst Energy first accreditation body with Section 6 approval for new build in Scotland.

Understanding what customers think of EPCs

Go Software

Training courses in Scotland and Northern Ireland

GiSBEM Training day – 5 Hours CPD

Date for Part L 2013 - England

New: On Construction Domestic Energy Assessors CPD course -

Next steps to Zero Carbon Homes: Small site exemptions announced

DEC consultation - No news is good news?

ECO software is now live

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