Non-Compliance Costs Campaign
The Case for Air Conditioning Inspection
An Overview
- The current requirements of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD) include the inspection of air conditioning systems in buildings with a cooling capacity over 12kW
- All systems put in place on or after 1stJanuary 2008 to be inspected within 5 years of installation
- All other air conditioning systems over 250kW output should have been inspected by 4th January 2009
- Any air conditioning systems above 12kW must be inspected by 4th January 2011
- An air conditioning report (ACR) is produced as a result of the inspection and is intended to detail recommendations on how the systems could be run more efficiently
- The Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs have estimated that with the current trend in ALL air conditioning sales, the total UK stock will possibly reach up to 1.5 million units by 2020 compared to 280,000 in 1990. During that same period we could expect an increase of energy use to be 6,600 GWh/year or 3.6 MTCO2
- CIBSE currently estimates that fewer than 5% of the systems that qualify for inspection have had the survey undertaken. This would mean that potentially, approximately 50,000 qualifying systems from the 2009 deadline still need to be surveyed
- The EPBD Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) 2007suggested that the 2007 energy consumption for domestic and non-domestic air conditioning systems was approximately 14.4TWh and rising year on year. Based on this figure, and taking an average value of15% CO2 saved per project based on our case studies below, we can roughly estimate a 2.1TWh annual energy saving or around 1.15 million tonnes CO2 per year
Download case studies for organisations that have already commissioned air conditioning inspections and are already benefiting from reduced carbon emissions and lower energy costs.
To see the business case for air conditioning inspections in full download the PDF here.
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The CIBSE Technical Director Hywel Davies took part in a short film explaining the legislation behind Air Conditioning Inspections and providing employers with information on what they need to do to comply. Check it out here: www.workplacelaw.net/videos/conference_films/AirConditioning.html * |
* The video was produced by Workplace Law Group:
Workplace Law Group specialises in providing training, support and information in the areas ofemployment law, health and safety, premises management and environment toorganisations throughout the UK.
As well as being accredited to offer NEBOSH, IOSH and CIPD training, we also offer many ofour own public courses covering all aspects of regulation in the workplace, aswell as the option of in-house training and consultancy support services.
Our expert advisors are there to help managers and employersget to grips with the law and practice of managing people at work.
