by jbs052710 h3 — May 31, 2010—Leading U.K. industry bodies such as the U.K. Green Building Council, BRE Global, the Heating and Ventilating Contractors’ Association and the British Institute of Facilities Management have signed up as partner organizations for the Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers’ (CIBSE) Non-compliance Costs Campaign.
The campaign warns that non-compliance with the Energy Performance in Buildings and F-Gas Regulations is costing both business and the environment. CIBSE President Elect Rob Manning explains, “Non-compliance has real costs: it costs the environment, it will cost the UK any chance of meeting the emissions targets, and it costs non-complying companies who are missing out on a real opportunity to increase their profits.”
With rates of compliance of Air Conditioning Inspections at less than five percent (compared to 80 percent for Display Energy Certificates and 70-75 percent for Energy Performance Certificates), the campaign calls for participants to sign up and support the “Compliance Charter,” which sets out three steps that the government must take to tackle the issue of non-compliance.
The campaign, which started at Nemex on April 20, will run for four months until the Energy Event on September 10, 2010.
