UK Energy Assessors

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Edgeworth Street's surveyors undergo continuous formal training to ensure that we can offer our clients a wide range of services - anything from a condition survey to a schedule of dilapidation.

In 2008, new government regulations mean that certain commercial buildings offered for sale or rent (including newly built properties), will require, by law, an energy certificate.

As RICS members, we are 100% committed to providing our clients with a service they can trust.

As you probably already know, the government has already introduced legislation that affects residential property from August 2007 and that they are encouraging just about anybody to train as energy assessors.

Already we are seeing reports in the press and on TV about rogue companies being set up to provide training to anyone with enough money to fund their course.

These companies make promises of huge earnings and therefore they are attracting the wrong types of individuals to their training courses - ex-direct sales people, redundant factory workers etc., who know little, if anything about how buildings are put together.

This is clearly not good enough for the commercial property market, because too much is at stake.

A disciplined and structured approach from qualified surveyors who also understand the commercial implications of such surveys is in our view, absolutely essential.

An energy assessment survey on a commercial building must contain advice on how to improve the energy efficiency.

But what if that advice was provided by a simple software package, operated by an individual without the knowledge of the ecomomics of commercial property?

How much objective, human input could such a person have?

Because we live and breath commercial property and look after some of the UK's largest property portfolios, we can ensure that your energy certificates are produced objectively and in sympathy with the real commercial issues that affect all landlords.

In short, we'll be considering your bottom line.

Can you trust just anyone with your energy assessment surveys? We don't think so.

Call Robert Street or David Carter at Edgeworth Street now on 0121 733 8686, for an informal discussion regarding the new regulations and we'll start working to save you money before the new regulations come in.