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Commercial Energy Performance Certificate

What is a Commercial Energy Performance Certificate?

Owners of commercial buildings and landlords must provide an Energy performance certificate to any prosepctive byer when they construct, sell or lease a commercial building. The legislation takes effect as follows:

·         From 6 April 2008 for buildings over 10,000m sq

·         From 1 July 2008 for buildings over 2500m sq

·         From 1 october for all other buildings over 50m sq

A commercial EPC will be issued after an inspection by a qualified Non-Domestic Energy Assessor (NDEA). the certificate produced will contain the following information:

• Details of your property, its address, date of report and property size in square metres;
• A table with headline performance ratings calculated in terms of the average energy use per square metre of floor area showing your property compared to a typical property of its type and size;
• Recommended measures to improve the property's performance ratings. These may typically include changes to lighting, insulation or installing a more energy-efficient boiler. It will not state the cost of these improvements - which will vary according to the cost of local labour and the materials used - but it will band them into low, medium and high cost relative to the typical payback period.

The EPC will be accompanied by a Recommendations Report containing measures that the Energy Assessor selects as being appropriate. The EPC will measure overall energy efficiency using SBEM (Simplifed Building Energy Model), which takes account of the size of the property, its structure, insulation, heating, etc. The Government's own information about Commerical Energy Certificates can be found here.

How can Bladen Consulting help you?

Bladen Consulting has associate qualified Commercial EPC Assessors, that can help you assess the energy performance of any, or indeed all, of your commercial buildings. If you would like further information, please contact us on 0845 839 1094 or 07771 811994, or via e-mail at pmbladen@btinternet.com.

Also, through our sister company, Energy Foundation, we offer Commercial EPC Production, so that you can undertake the work yourself. For more informaton, please visit the Energy Foundation website, at www.energyfoundation.co.uk