[Greenbuilding] Mandatory Energy Performance Certicate (For Houses & Commercial Buildings)

[Chris Green]

johnsbone at gateshead.plus.com wrote:
> Hi, over here in Europe, and in the England in particular, from 1st June
> 2007, if you want to market (for sale or rent) your home or commercial
> building, it must have an EPC (Energy Performance Certificate) prepared by a
> Government Qualified and Certified "Energy Assessor".
>
> No EPC and it will cost you $1000 in fixed fines for marketing illegally.
>   
Are there enough qualified "Energy Assessors" do do this work?

I'm going to predict that you will see a lot of real estate companies 
offering a lot of big incentives to get people to sign on the line 
before June 1st. Either that or the prices will go up $1,000 to quietly 
cover the fines as "part of the cost of doing business..." That happened 
in the trucking industry in one of our Maritime provinces, and a judge 
declared the fines as being tax-deductable under the "part of the cost 
of doing business" clause of that era.

Cheers,

Chris Green.