Consultant will also work with the RICS to provide assessment and accreditation services

Cost consultant Faithful+Gould has created a specialist team of commercial energy assessors to help developers, owners, purchasers and occupiers of buildings understand and evaluate their EPC.

Shaun Lunn, F+G director and EPC expert, said; 鈥淎s energy usage and carbon emissions are becoming key considerations on a tenant鈥檚 agenda, EPCs will prove crucial in establishing the level of CO虏 emissions from a property.

鈥淓veryone in the property sector will be required to be more flexible in making improvements to meet user expectations and market demands to ensure the sale and re-letting of their premises.鈥�

The firm has also agreed a contract with the RICS to provide assessment and accreditation services.

Christopher Cuthbert, F+G associate director, said: 鈥淚n developing this core national team now, our building surveyors will be accredited by the RICS and will be qualified commercial energy assessors within the next month 鈥� well ahead of the 1st October deadline.鈥�

In addition, other firm members will be accredited through the BRE Trust and The Chartered Institution of 好色先生TV Services Engineers.

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