Compulsory Inspections Of Air Conditioning Systems

Introduction

As part of an EU Directive which ties in with the Government's drive to cut carbon emissions from buildings there are Regulations coming into force making the inspection of air conditioning systems compulsory. The same Regulations that require most buildings to have an energy performance certificate (EPC) on construction, sale and letting also include the obligations to inspect air-conditioning systems on a regular basis and this alert summarises how it is all going to work, in theory, from the end of this year.

Obligations

What is the basic obligation? Whilst not coming into force immediately, the basic obligation will be a duty on each person who controls the operation of an air conditioning system to have that system inspected by an accredited energy assessor at least once every 5 years. This applies to all systems with an effective rated output over 12kW. A copy of that