Understanding the RDSAP conventions

Understanding the RDSAP conventions

This course introduces the fundamentals, conventions and inspection techniques used during an RDSAP 2009 assessment. Participants get the opportunity to try out their new knowledge of RDSAP with two house visits and use the software to see how the data affects the RDSAP rating.

Suitable for

Housing Association and council maintenance and asset management staff

Housing Association and council surveying & stock condition staff

Managers of Domestic Energy Assessors

Environmental health officer/private sector housing enforcement officers

Energy Efficiency advisors

Fuel Poverty advisors

Anyone wishing to understand energy ratings who may wish to move onto DEA training

Energy data and SAP ratings have been used for around 20 years to help inform housing association and council staff on the energy efficiency of the housing stock. They’ve also been used as the basis for action against fuel poverty or against landlords who own properties with an excess cold hazard (seen to be a SAP rating lower than 35).

This course gives participants the opportunity to understand RDSAP, understand the RDSAP fundamentals, conventions and inspection techniques. Participants get to use RDSAP software and produce a SAP rating. This knowledge can then be used to produce RDSAP ratings for properties that do not require EPCs. 

The course covers:

  • Background to Energy Performance Certificates and Government legislation in the rental sector
  • Methods of data collection and the latest views on how EPCs are going to be produced in this sector
  • Theory of energy ratings, U-values, ventilation, data collection forms and RDSAP
  • Assessment conventions: built form, age, drawing a sketch plan, habitable rooms and property dimensions
  • Heat loss perimeter, extensions, conservatories, room in the roof, solar panels, alternative walls and how to deal with flats
  • Exercises on completing RDSAP forms
  • Heating and hot water
  • Tour of a house – completing the RDSAP forms and using the software 

This is a 3 day course offered alongside the DEA course. Participants can then go on to complete the DEA diploma if they wish.

This course will be running in Milton Keynes on the following dates:

  • 13/14/15 December
  • 21/22/23 February

Trainer - Mike Ridgell

We also offer this course as a 2 day inhouse course – if you have a number of staff that you want training we can visit you to deliver this course please contact Paul Holmes on 01908 442111 for details.

CPD Hours: No CPD hrs allocated

£450

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