If you own a commercial building or are constructing a commercial building then according to the new law you need to get an Energy Performance Certificate for it. This law would come in force in April 2008. It has been observed that these commercial building emit a lot carbon. Therefore you need an Energy Performance Certificate which would rate energy performance of your building.

The rating is done on a scorecard of A-G. If you get an A rating then it implies that the energy performance of your building is highly efficient whereas a G means just the opposite. Certain suggestion would also be provided in the certificate that would help you to make certain changes which in turn can help in improving the energy performance of the company.

Residential buildings and sheds do not require the Energy Performance Certificates. If you have a commercial building that is less than 500 sqm then also this certificate is not required. Similarly temporary buildings that are to be used for less than a period of 2 years, so not require the Energy Performance Certificate

Thus any commercial building that has more than 500 sq m of space and deals with activities like selling or renting needs to obtain this certificate. For obtaining the Energy Performance Certificates you can hire Energy Performance professionals and assessors who can help you with it. You can environment consultants for this who have a team of Energy Performance specialist working under them.

If you don't know whom to approach for this then you can browse websites like environment-survey.com. The websites would answer all your queries regarding the Energy Performance Certificates. The website is owned and managed by Wilbourn Associates which is one of the top environmental consultants in UK. They have a team of energy performance professionals who can provide you with proper guidance.

The energy performance assessor would survey the site first wherein he would pay attention to various elements that contributes to the energy performance of the company. He would collect a data on this information and feed it to the computer. The computer would evaluate the data provided to it and give a rating according to this data. The rating would be given on a sliding scale.

You would be required to pay a fee in exchange for this service. The expense and the fee involved depend on the types of building you own. However, you can get a free price quotation from the company that would provide you with an approximate idea regarding the expenses. The time taken by the surveyor to do the survey on the said building also depends on the size of the building. For further assistance or query, you can contact Wilbourn Associates at www.environmental-surveyors.com who would help you with the same.