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Compliance

What applies.What does not.

The regimes

  • ESOS Phase 4

    Law

    An assessment obligation that turns on the size of the undertaking rather than on the size of its energy use.

  • SECR reporting

    Law

    Disclosure within the annual report, on tests that are separate from the ESOS tests.

  • TM44 air conditioning inspections

    Law

    Applies by installed cooling capacity, on a fixed inspection cycle.

  • Heat network registration

    Law

    Registration applies to buildings supplying heat, cooling or hot water to more than one occupier.

  • EPC E as a letting condition

    Law

    A property below the standard cannot be let unless an exemption is registered.

  • Tighter non-domestic EPC targets

    Proposed

    A government proposal. It needs secondary legislation before it becomes a duty on a landlord.

A teal keyline marks current law. An orange keyline marks a proposal that is not yet a duty. We do not present the two as the same thing.

Why the tests differ

The tests differ and are regularly conflated. The same company can sit inside one regime and outside another. We work it through on your actual figures rather than on a rule of thumb.

Where something is a government proposal rather than current law, we say so. EPC E is law. Tighter non-domestic targets are proposed and need secondary legislation.

The evidence

We keep the evidence in a form an auditor can follow: the data used, the date it was taken, the source it came from, and the calculation applied to it.

Read the detail

How to check this

Each claim on this page is answered by something you can read for yourself. Nothing below states a figure; it names the document or register the claim is held against.

  • Point 01

    We hold a Level 1 Letter of Authority only

    The authority wording sets out what we may do with your data and states that we cannot sign a contract on your behalf. Read it before you sign it.

    Read the Letter of Authority

  • Point 02

    How we are paid is agreed in writing before you sign

    Our margin or management fee is stated in the terms that accompany a recommendation, and nothing is added afterwards.

    Client terms and conditions

  • Point 03

    Every figure we quote carries a dated source document

    Records state the figure, what it is measured against, the document it is taken from and the date on that document. Records still held anonymous are labelled as such.

    Evidence records

  • Point 04

    Compliance work is held against the current legislation

    Each obligation is recorded with the rule it comes from and the deadline it carries, in an evidence pack an auditor can follow.

    Compliance

  • Point 05

    We work to a published code of conduct

    Our obligations as a third party intermediary, and what you can hold us to, are set out in full.

    Third party intermediary code