Why Ber Certification Is Important?

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What is the role of a BER cert?
Buying and selling a property is very common in recent days. Landlords always expect to sell their property at a more price and if you are one among those landlords who wants to sell your property at a good price then make sure that your property will have the best BER rating. In fact it is the BER rating which decides the market value of your building.

What is validity of a BER certificate?
A BER cert will not be valid for more than ten years and however here you need to make sure that no material changes are made in the dwellings as these changes might affect their energy performance.

What is BER scaling?
BER scale begins with ‘A’ and ends with ‘G’, where ‘A’ indicates the best property rating while ‘G’ indicates the poor property rating.

What does a BER certificate contain?
A BER certificate contains BER number, building name, BER validity date, building address, BER assessor firm number, BER issue date and Building energy rating assessor number.

How building energy rating is calculated?
The building energy rating ...
... of a property (building or house) is calculated using DEAP software. This software will also help the property owners in finding co2 emissions related to their building. Besides, this software has been introduced by the SEI (Sustainable energy Ireland). Various factors which will be taken into consideration while calculating BER includes ventilation, space heating, building fabric , lighting and water heating.

Is BER cert mandatory?
BER certification has become mandatory from 1st Jan 2009 for all those who wants to sell their existing buildings.

How BER certification process is carried out?
All those property owners who are looking for the BER certificate on emergency basis could approach us as we offer the best assistance to our customers in getting this certificate within no time. BER certification process will be carried out by an SEI approved building assessors. These building assessors will take 2 to 3 hours usually to complete their survey successfully. However, the time taken by the assessors will always depend on the size of your home or building. Building assessors will issue this certificate within a week on completing their survey. A BER cert will be issued to a building owner along with an advisory report. That advisory report will be useful to you in knowing the ways to improve your building energy performance. However, it is not mandatory that the property owners should follow advisory report given to them to improve their building energy rating.