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NHER Social Housing News
Welcome to the first issue of NHER Social Housing News.

In each issue you'll find articles and features about energy efficiency that social landlords need to know.

This issue features the NHER's Social Housing Forums, software to help manage EPCs for your housing stock, and the wider opportunities around EPC production.

Best practice for meeting your EPC requirements
Come to a free NHER forum to share ideas
Social Housing Providers from around the country are attending the NHER's regional Social Housing Forums to discuss and find out more about how they are going to meet their Energy Performance Certificate requirements.

The forums are hosted and facilitated by the NHER, but much of the specific content is generated by delegates.

The first forum, held in Milton Keynes in January, brought together a wide range of delegates - all of whom had their own circumstances and ways of approaching EPC production.

From the first forum, it was clear that there was no 'one size fits all' approach to EPC generation and data usage.

Delegates discussed a wide range of topics, including:
  • EPC production Producing EPCs on a reactive basis when properties become void, versus the pro-active approach of getting them produced up front
  • Using technology How to collect and store RDSAP data
  • Don’t lose the data! How to make sure you don't lose the valuable data you've collected, and what other uses might it have
  • What next for EPCs The future of the EPC and the EPBD
There are four further opportunities for you to attend:

5 February Ripon Race course, Ripon
12 February Aintree Race course, Liverpool
25 February Royal Wells Hotel, Royal Tunbridge Wells
12 March Cadbury House, Bristol

Book your FREE place today on our online booking system.

Keep on top of your energy efficiency data
New software tool from the NHER to manage the data of your housing stock
NHER Stock Assessor is a standalone energy database which enables you to manage the energy efficiency of your stock and EPCs:
  • A database to enable you to record, manage and maintain the energy efficiency data on your housing stock
  • Records which properties have received EPCs
  • Enables creation & lodgement of EPCs from data held in Stock Assessor; alternatively an EPC can be created on our system (NES one) and data imported
  • Imports Probase data
  • Provides reports for statutory reporting requirements such as average SAP, stock profiles and decent homes information
  • Supported by our Technical Support team seven days a week – via telephone, email and internet services
Find out more about what NHER Stock Assessor software can do for you by calling the team on 01908 442111 or by emailing enquiry@nesltd.co.uk.

Energy ratings from within your asset management database
Energy efficiency data of your stock right where you want it
Some of the major asset management database suppliers have integrated with the NHER to enable the production of energy ratings and EPCs directly from their systems.

Providing you have an NHER-accredited DEA, you may be able to generate your own EPCs directly from your asset management database - streamlining the EPC production process dramatically.

Introducing NHER Auto Assessor
If you do not have an NHER-accredited DEA you can still produce indicative RDSAP energy ratings for individual properties, groups of properties or your whole stock.

All of the major asset management database providers have seamlessly integrated the NHER's energy calculation engine, known as Auto Assessor. The engine can:
  • Allow you to use the information from your database to produce energy ratings for the RSR and national indicators
  • Enable you to better plan improvements to properties
  • Indicative SAP ratings using full RDSAP or partial datasets
You can find out more by getting in touch with us on 01908 442111 or by emailing enquiry@nesltd.co.uk.

Generating EPCs for similar dwellings owned by the same landlord
Obligations, implementation options and benefits
In an recent article published in Housing Association magazine, Mark Sreeves, Senior Consultant for National Energy Services, wrote about EPCs and social landlords' obligations, implementation options and highlighted the potential benefits of multiple certification.

In this article Mark looks at opportunities to make EPC production as cost effective as possible.

Download the PDF article.

Expert advice on implementing your EPC requirements
Talk to an NHER consultant today
If you need expert advice about EPC or wider energy efficiency obligations, we can provide a bespoke consultancy service. The NHER offers these solutions:
  • Advice and assistance with meeting obligations around EPCs
  • Developing and managing databases for assessing, planning and reporting
  • Beyond EPCs –  creating low carbon, energy efficient, affordable homes
  • Creating an energy strategy as a successful tool to drive improvement
  • Bespoke projects relating energy assessment
  • NI187 - creating and maintaining a successful reporting strategy
Over the past ten years, our Energy Rating Consultants have carried out analysis of housing stocks comprising of over 1,000,000 properties for local authorities and housing associations.

Their practical experience combined with their access to the wider NHER technical resource enables them to provide an authoritative value for money service.

We recognise that every situation is unique. To read more, please visit our website, or for an informal discussion contact us on 01908 442111.
Train your staff to issue EPCs
Experienced Practitioners
If you work for a Social Housing Provider and you have a large number of EPCs to produce, it will be more cost-effective for you to train your staff as Domestic Energy Assessors.

We run regular courses for individuals with experience of residential property surveying and energy ratings.

Courses are available throughout February. Call us on 01908 442111 for more information, or visit our DEA Training microsite.

New entrants
Alternatively, if you are new to the industry, we run a course that is designed to get you up to speed as quickly as possible. The course covers all aspects of property surveying for energy ratings for you to achieve the DEA qualification

Courses are available throughout February. Call us on 01908 442111 for more information, or visit our DEA Training microsite.

RDSAP Data Collection
Another way to produce EPCs (within the CLG guidelines), or to undertake an RDSAP survey for any other purpose, is to have a team of staff collecting the RDSAP data items. This information may then be used by a qualified and accredited DEA uses to produce EPCs or manipulated in an energy database or asset management system to provide reports on the stock.

To practice as an RDSAP Data Collector, you will need to undertake our two-day course covering the RDSAP conventions and how to collect data. This course is undertaken at the NHER’s training facility in Milton Keynes. All candidates that attend will receive a certificate to show they have been trained in the collection of RDSAP data by the NHER.

We're running training course in Milton Keynes on 9-10 February and 27-28 March.

Read more about RDSAP Data Collection, or call us on 01908 442111 for more details.

In-house training
If you have several staff who need training, we can come to you. Our expert trainers will deliver a custom training package at your premises on a date to suit you.

Contact us on 01908 442111 or email enquiry@nesltd.co.uk to discuss your specific needs.

Outsourcing your EPCs?
If you currently outsource your EPCs to a panel of DEAs, you should look to the SAVA Business Exchange. All members of the SAVA Business Exchange are accredited by the NHER, so you can be sure of a quality service.

For a fast source of EPCs nationwide, contact the SAVA Business Exchange on 01908 442188 and speak to Terry Bedeau.

New training course - Low Carbon Refurbishment
We also offer a one-day course for ambitious DEAs who are looking to gain new skills and further improve the energy efficiency of the UK's housing stock.

Would you like the ability to go beyond the recommendations of the EPC? How do you carry out refurbishment of an existing property to achieve a low carbon home? This course will show you how.

Our Plan Assessor software is a valuable tool allowing you to model all the different energy improvement scenarios. Delegates will go far beyond the limitations of the EPC to look at different insulation materials, how to improve floors, and consider the use of renewable technologies.

Visit the NHER website to learn more or call us on 01908 442111.

Probase replaced by Stock Assessor
The NHER Probase energy database has recently been replaced by Stock Assessor. Stock Assessor enables the storage of stock energy data for energy rating calculations and as a means to produce and store EPCs.

For further information on upgrading from Probase to Stock Assessor please contact Paul or Roger on 01908 442111.

Auto Evaluator replacement
Auto Evaluator, the NHER's energy calculation engine, has been replaced by Auto Assessor. Auto Assessor is primarily used in Asset Management systems and databases to enable the analysis of housing stock data to produce energy ratings.

For details of how to upgrade please contact Paul or Roger on 01908 442111.
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