Display Energy Certificates in October- have you seen any?
I found an article from Michael Willoughby demonstrating just how farcial the situation is regarding Display Energy Certificates quite hilarious.In Waste of energy? The search for Display Energy Certificates it tells the story of Michaels recentwonderings around London in the desperate search of a Display Energy Certificate which of course should be on the wall of all public buildings by now.
So he visited Tate Modern and didn't find one!
Shakespeares Globe theatre? Nope, not there either!
The Underground? Nope!
So I think you get the hint, DECs so far are yet another failure in the rollout of the EPBD and this is yet another example of how we have had plenty of time to get it right. Even so, we have watered down the regulations, and still do not have enough assessors available to carry out the work!
A few examples of what some buildings are scoring:
10 Downing Street: D (657 tonnes of CO2/year )
HM Treasury: E (4,122 )
Natural History Museum: E (10,026)
City Hall, London: E (2,255)
Defra head office: E (1,322)
Palace of Westminster: G (11,983 )
Portcullis House: G (2,750)
Bank of England: G (9,373)
Imperial War Museum, London: G (3,664)
Imperial War Museum, North: G (1,396)
and if you are still not sure about the EPBD- well I stumbled across this handy little reminder!
Labels: Display-Energy-Certificates-have-you-seen-a-real-one-anywhere?
posted by Neil Kurz at
08:30
3 Comments:
Hi Neil,
Instead of the original 42,500 expected DEC's CLG has allowed a site based approach the total is now expected to be around 18,000. By October 1st only 3,200 (17.7%) of the reduced number had been done. Its hardly surprising Michael Willoughby had difficulty in seeing one.
John M
As we can see with the EPBD picture above relating to the 2002 EU Directive, in Article 7 it states 'Display in Public Buildings'. In 6 years we, meaning the combined efforts of the Government and CLG, have managed to foul this up as well as the HIP/domestic EPC roll-out. Heavens above they should ever get anything difficult to do!
Want to know about the next problem looming? Just look no further than air-conditioning inspections which should be going on right now!
Hi Neil,
At this moment CIBSE have 7 air con assessors qualified with another 45 in training. Bearing in mind CIBSE account for around 50% of the qualified Commercial Assessors it seems pretty likely they hold a similar position in the air con assessor field.
John M
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