Opus Environmental

Get Ready as EPC’s come on line………

From the 1st October 2008, any commercial premises being offered for sale or for let must have a CEPC in place to present to prospective purchasers or tenants. 

EPC’s finally come into force…….

As of  the 4th January 2009, all commercial property marketed for sale or let must have a Commercial Energy Performance Certificate

Governments extention to energy preformance certificates…….

The Communities and Local Government’s (CLG) decision to introduce transitional arrangements for implementing the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive is an admission there aren’t enough qualified assessors to undertake the surveys and that much more needs to be done to educate building owners about their responsibilities, according to Envos, the independent specialist environmental consultancy.

All commercial buildings are obliged to have obtained their Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) by October 1st 2008, but the CLG has now introduced transitional arrangements, whereby a commercial property needs an EPC by the date that the building is sold or rented, or by the 4th January 2009, whichever is sooner

Air-conditioning legislation comes into force……

Legislation relating to air-conditioning systems will now come into force on the following dates:

4 January 2009 – First inspection of all existing air-conditioning systems over 250kW must have occurred by this date*
4 January 2011 – First inspection of all remaining air-conditioning systems over 12kW must have occurred by this date*

*Note – a system first put into service on or after 1 January 2008 must have a first inspection within 5 years of being put into service.