- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what methodologies it has considered using in respect of non-domestic buildings in order to comply with Article 3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and what the estimated cost per survey would be of using each methodology.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
The SBSA has to dateconsidered using the Simplified Building Energy Model for non-domesticbuildings, although it is likely that in the future some commercial detailedsimulation models will be available and suitable for use. No assessments havebeen undertaken regarding the cost of using the different methodologies ashourly and daily rates vary from company to company or from sole trader to soletrader. Independent research has, however, established the following datacollection times for existing buildings:
Three days for very largebuildings.
One day for average sizebuildings.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the methodology that it will use to comply with Article 3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive will require any input from unqualified or non-accredited individuals.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
No. The Article 3methodologies adopted will not require any input from unqualified ornon-accredited individuals. However, any Article 3 methodologies that do haveinput from an unqualified or non-accredited individual, will be subject to thescrutiny of a verifier or local authority, acting as the accredited experts.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any independent assessment has been made of the Scottish Energy Rating Tool (SERT), particularly whether SERT will comply with the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive, and, if so, what conclusions were reached.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
The work on the ScottishEnergy Rating Tool is currently in progress. Development work has not yetreached a stage where an independent assessment would prove to be useful.Consequently no assessment has been carried out.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what methodology or methodologies it will use in respect of existing privately-owned dwellings to comply with Article 3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
The SBSA has to dateconsidered using SAP 2005, rdSAP and the Scottish Energy Rating Tool for existingprivately-owned dwellings. Final decisions have still to be taken on which of the latter two methodologies (or both) will eventually be adopted.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost has been to the taxpayer to date of developing the Scottish Energy Rating Tool.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
Development of the ScottishEnergy Rating Tool has come from the SBSA research budget at a fixed sum of £30,000.When introduced, energy certification of buildings will cost millions of poundsper annum to owners involved with sale or rental of their buildings. It isconsidered important that all avenues are explored to try and provide acost-effective solution to energy performance certification.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what benefit will accrue from devising its own methodology to comply with the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
Answer
I have asked Dr. Paul Stollard,Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), to answer.His response is as follows:
The work on the ScottishEnergy Rating Tool (SERT) is currently in progress. If the research work issuccessful then SERT could provide a cost-effective solution to energyperformance certification of dwellings, particularly in the private rentalsector.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what methodology or methodologies it will use in respect of non-domestic buildings to comply with Article 3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
The SBSA has to dateconsidered using the Simplified Building Energy Model for non-domesticbuildings, although it is likely that in the future some commercial detailedsimulation models will be available and suitable for use. Final decisions havestill to be taken on which detailed simulation models will eventually beadopted.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what methodology or methodologies it will use in respect of newly built privately-owned dwellings to comply with Article 3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
The SBSA has to dateconsidered using SAP 2005, SBEM, rdSAP and the Scottish Energy Rating Tool fornewly-constructed privately-owned dwellings. Final decisions have still to betaken on which of the latter two methodologies (or both) will eventually beadopted.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive what methodologies it has considered using in respect of existing social housing in order to comply with Article 3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and what the estimated cost per survey would be of using each methodology.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
The SBSA has to dateconsidered using SAP 2005, rdSAP and the Scottish Energy Rating Tool forexisting social housing. No assessments have been undertaken regarding the costof using the different methodologies as hourly and daily rates vary fromcompany to company or from sole trader to sole trader. Independent research has,however, established the following data collection times for existingbuildings:
Two hours for SAP 2005 fordwellings.
One hour for rdSAP.
The Scottish Energy RatingTool is still under development, but a data collection time of 30 minutes hasbeen considered possible.
- Asked by: Richard Baker, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 30 March 2006
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Current Status:
Answered by Johann Lamont on 26 April 2006
To ask the Scottish Executive whether any independent assessment has been made of the cost of using different methodologies to comply with Article 3 of the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and, if so, what conclusions were reached.
Answer
I have asked Dr. PaulStollard, Chief Executive of the Scottish Building Standards Agency (SBSA), toanswer. His response is as follows:
No independent assessmentshave been undertaken regarding the cost of using the different methodologies ashourly and daily rates vary from company to company or from sole trader to soletrader. Independent research has however established the following datacollection times for existing buildings:
Three days for very largenon-domestic buildings.
One day for average sizenon-domestic buildings.
Two hours for a full datamethodology for dwellings.
One hour for a reduced datamethodology for dwellings.
