Proficiency Celebrates New Chapter with Exciting Giveaway On Monday, 13th October 2025, the transition of Proficiency began, culminating on Tuesday, 14th October, when Proficiency transfered to the ownership of a C...

URGENT – write to your local MP to help secure Phase 2 of commercial MEESIt is now crucial for all energy assessors and those passionate about creating fit-for-purpose, low carbon commercial buildings to push the Go...

How wrong is this? The British Standard for Retrofit assessment for domestic dwellings. Code of practice is now published as BS 40104:2025. It comes into effect on 30 September 2025.  This is an important document, a...

Underinsurance We are at the forefront of encouraging business and homeowners to upgrade their buildings to achieve better environmental standards. These improvements are essential for reducing carbon emissions and...

A Proficiency member shares his thoughts and experience of data collection I qualified as a Domestic Energy Assessor about a year and a half ago, and signed up with an accreditation scheme soon after. I then follow...

It would be so easy to massively improve the effectiveness of DECs, so why is government not doing it?Display Energy Certificates (DECs) are probably the most undervalued and poorly utilised element of the UK Energy...

An important new law is coming into effect soonAwaab's Law comes into effect in the social housing sector on October 27, 2025, requiring social landlords to address emergency hazards including damp and mould in a th...

Questions are being asked about why quite a few domestic EPCs appear to be getting very limited increases in the rating from just adding solar PV, but a much higher rating increase if it is combined with either an e...