Government Legislation requires a report by a Chartered Surveyor to assess the improvements required under the Energy Company Obligation (ECO). At Low Carbon Energy Assessors (LCEA) Ltd we are Chartered Surveyors providing professional surveying services. We identify and issue HTTC reports demonstrating whether the installation of insulation to solid and hard-to-treat cavity walls, are eligible measure under the ECO obligations.
(a) a cavity wall—
(i) in a building with 3 or more storeys where each storey has cavity walls; (ii) which a chartered surveyor has reported is not suitable to insulate with standard insulation material or techniques; or (iii) which a chartered surveyor has reported is not suitable to insulate without substantial remedial works to the building; (b) a cavity within a cavity wall which is less than 50mm wide; (c) a cavity found in homes of prefabricated concrete construction or with metal frame cavity walls; or (d) Non-traditional building types, such as timber-framed may be classified as hard-to-treat. (e) an uneven cavity formed in walls constructed of natural stone or from natural stone outer leaf and block or brick inner leaf
(a) Internal or external insulation which lowers the U-value of the treated walls to 0.30W/m2K or less; or
(b) In the case of a mobile home, internal or external insulation applied to the ceiling, floor or walls which lower the U-value of those parts of the mobile home to which the insulation is applied.
The Energy Act legislated for the Green Deal and the Energy Company Obligation(ECO) which aim to improve energy efficiency in existing residential and commercial properties. ECO places a legal obligation on the six largest energy suppliers to install energy efficiency measures in homes where the Green Deal may not remove all the upfront costs of the measures, in low income households that cannot afford Green Deal finance and in difficult to improve properties. Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) estimated that the ECO would require energy suppliers to carry out work of at least £1,300 million per year.
Suppliers must deliver these improvements by 31st March 2015. This is intended to work alongside the Green Deal which will allow consumers to implement measures to improve the energy efficiency of their property which will be paid for via their energy bills. Government is now enacting legislation to make the ECO work in practice.
ECO covers large social housing blocks and Park Homes. Park Homes are considered hard to treat and do not qualify for the Green Deal as it is not currently possible to produce an EPC for them. There are approximately 100,000 Park Homes in the UK.
The Energy Company Obligation legislation requires suppliers to obtain a report by a Chartered Surveyor to identify appropriate energy efficiency measures where a Green Deal report is not available and to identify a‘hard to treat cavity’. Low Carbon Energy Assessors (LCEA) Ltd offer the surveying services for Hard-to-Treat Cavity Wall Chartered Surveyors Report to Energy Suppliers, Solid / Internal and Cavity Wall Insulation Installers, Green Deal Providers and Landlords.
We offer cost effective services on large portfolios and blocks of social housing to our Clients.It is too costly and time consuming to commission Green Deal Advisory Reports and gaining access to each individual property. Park homes will also require a report from a Chartered Surveyor as these are classified as ‘difficult to improve properties’.
Here at Building Surveyors Ltd we are able to provide HTTC Reports for insulation companies, should you be interested or simply need more information contact:
0191 235 7545 – info@buildingsurveyorsltd.co.uk – @BuildingsLtd –
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