Links

Useful Contacts

• • DesignBuilder Software Ltd
    Stroud House, Russell Street, Stroud, Gloucs, GL5 3AN
  • 01453 755500
  • www.designbuilder.co.uk
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• • TrustMark
    Arena Business Centre, The Square, Basing View, Basingstoke, RG21 4EB
  • 03335 551234
  • www.trustmark.org.uk

Newsletters

• Proficiency News 8th January 2024

• Proficiency News 9th October 2023

• Proficiency News 17th August 2023

• Proficiency News 22nd July 2023

• Proficiency News 1st May 2023

• Proficiency News 11th March 2023

• Proficiency News 29th December 2022
• Proficiency News 11th November 2022
• Proficiency News 1st October 2022
• Proficiency News 31st May 2022
• Proficiency News 30th April 2022
• Proficiency News 27th March 2022
• Proficiency News 17th February 2022

Literature

• Guidance document - Inclusion of previous DEC operational ratings (ORs) on DECs

• Guidance document - Convention 3.12a - Glazing Age (Thermal Spacer)

• Non-domestic Recommendation Reports - What to expect

• Non domestic conventions Issue 8 - Roof / Zone Heights guidance (examples)

• Guidance document - EPCs for Listed Buildings

• Guidance document - RdSAP or SBEM

• Guidance document - Convention 4.08: Zone within a zone

• Guidance document - Convention 6.13: Identifying Indirectly Conditioned Zones

• Guidance document - Convention 7.01 - Lighting Options in SBEM

• Guidance document - Foundation area in SBEM

• High Heat Retention Storage Heaters (HHRSH) for improved EPC rating. Model list current at 27th March 2023.

• Proficiency Flyer April 2022

Conventions

• Domestic Conventions v11.3 (from 1st March 2022)

• Non-domestic Conventions v8 (from 1st February 2023)

• DEC Conventions  v2.0 (from 1st November 2018)

Useful Links

• The EPC Register
• Department for Levelling Up Housing & Communities
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
• National Calculation Method for Non Domestic Buildings

• The Energyst magazine (Free digital subscription)