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What is the Commercial EPC Conventions Group?
Mike Tofts

Championed as a cause by NES for several months, the Commercial EPC Conventions Group is now on its sixth meeting (a 2 day affair hosted by us) and is getting perilously close to issuing its first set of conventions.

The group has representatives from all accreditation schemes, technical support from BRE and AECOM, and overall administration and approval from CLG.

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A Curate's Egg of a Consultation
Brian Scannell

At the start of March CLG published a consultation document “Making better use of Energy Performance Certificates and data”.

The consultation got rather overshadowed by the “Warm Homes, Greener Homes” strategy document which was published with DECC at the same time.

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10 ways that SAP 2009 will impact you
Dyfrig Hughes

The final version of the SAP 2009 methodology was published on March 23rd 2010. This article from Dyfrig Hughes of National Energy Services updates his previous article and summarises the key changes that will most affect builders and designers.

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The election campaign in your area
Matthew Culnane

Yesterday (April 20) was the deadline for nominations for Parliamentary candidates for the upcoming general election. We now know all the candidates in each constituency, and we have the opportunity to ask questions of them about their views on their parties’ policy commitments relating to HIPs and EPCs.

We’ve drafted some text that you can use to contact your local Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat candidates and seek their views on areas such as:

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An Election Issue?
Brian Scannell

So the election has been confirmed for 6th May and we all have to decide who we want to see making the decisions on our behalf.

The way the media cover the election, one could easily get the impression that we are actually going to be voting for Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Nick Clegg or one of the other party leaders directly.

But of course that isn’t the way our democracy works.

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