A seminar to promote NABERS UK will take place at this year’s Build2Perform Live event, CIBSE has announced. The energy rating system for offices was launched in November 2020 and is based on the successful NABERS scheme in Australia.
CIBSE Certification, a subsidiary of CIBSE, has administered the scheme since April. It offers certification of management systems, personnel, and embodied carbon verification. The NABERS UK scheme rates the energy performance of office buildings and is designed to close the performance gap in buildings and to ensure that predicted energy performance is matched by the actual building performance.
There are two product offerings available: NABERS UK Design for Performance, which aims to drive energy efficiency in new buildings, and NABERS UK Energy for Offices ratings, which measures the energy efficiency of existing buildings.
The scheme also includes NABERS UK Assessor training, and registration of assessors, with robust processes for supervising their initial submissions. CIBSE Certification has accepted new training, assessor registration, DfP, and Energy for Office applications from 1 July. Working alongside NABERS UK and scheme ambassador, the BBP, CIBSE Certification has introduced changes that provide a clearer separation between NABERS UK training, and the assessor registration and qualification process. It also better aligns sizes of offices with likely future UK mandatory reporting requirements. While new applications are growing, the transfer of previously registered agreements from the BRE, the scheme’s previous administrator, continue.
Visit Build2Perform Live at www.build2perform.co.uk and NABERS UK at www.cibse.org/nabers-uk