ND EPC Lighting Recommendations

In recent years, legislation has been introduced to phase out the use of a number of forms of low efficiency lighting. In addition to restrictions on tungsten and halogen lighting systems that have now been in place for some time, restrictions on most forms of traditional fluorescent tube lights for commercial, industrial, and residential premises have now been added to the ban. As such, recommending the implementation of these technologies is no longer technically feasible and should not appear in lodged EPC Recommendation Reports.

Therefore, if any of the following recommendations are suggested by the software, they should be replaced:

We suggest that these recommendations should be removed and the custom recommendation given below should be included in their place. The assessor can explain this in the comments section using the phrase “Lighting banned”.

“This building contains lighting technologies that are inefficient and may be environmentally damaging. Consideration should be given to updating and upgrading lighting and controls to high efficiency LED systems.”

Additionally, assessors may include this custom recommendation in any assessment where tungsten, halogen, compact fluorescent or fluorescent tube lighting is found to be present. The alternative wording below can also be used for display lighting systems:

 “This building contains display lighting technologies that are inefficient and may be environmentally damaging. Consideration should be given to updating and upgrading display lighting and controls to high efficiency LED systems.”