In certain circumstances, a team of people working under the supervision of an accredited energy assessor can gather data to assist with the production of EPCs for a portfolio of buildings. Multiple p...
The government approved software programme uses data, together with standard performance tables, to assess the energy performance of the building and to produce the EPC and recommendations. The softwa...
Only an approved energy assessor can lodge data on to the domestic EPC register (‘the register’) through their accreditation scheme. An EPC is only valid if it has been generated from data lodged on t...
An EPC may only be produced by an accredited energy assessor. Energy assessors must be a member of an approved accreditation scheme. To check that an energy assessor is a member of an accreditation sc...
Only an EPC generated from data lodged on the register and allocated a unique reference number is authentic. The register helps to protect the consumer. Any party holding a copy of an EPC can verify i...
To make a complaint about the availability or quality of an EPC or about an energy assessor who produced the documents or carried out the energy assessment: EPC on sale or rent For complaints regardin...
Local weights and measures authorities (usually through their trading standards officers) are responsible for enforcing the regulations that require an EPC to be made available on the sale or rent of ...
A fixed penalty charge of £200 may be issued for failure to comply in the following circumstances: on sale or rent the seller or landlord failed to make a valid EPC available free of charge to the pro...
Building A building means ‘a roofed construction having walls, for which energy is used to condition the indoor climate’. Building unit A building unit means ‘a section or floor within a building that...
Standard assessment procedure (SAP) is the government approved methodology for the energy assessment of dwellings. The current version of has been adopted by government as part of the national methodo...