Elmhurst Accredited · Domestic Energy Assessment
An EPC is the baseline everything else is measured against: MEES compliance, funding eligibility, stock condition data and the business case for every measure you are about to fund. We produce them in batches, at a fixed price, with the underlying data handed back in a form your systems can actually use.
Commissioning one EPC is a transaction. Commissioning six hundred is a logistics problem wearing a technical hat, and the things that go wrong have very little to do with the assessment itself.
They go wrong on access. On tenants who work shifts. On void turnarounds that shift by a fortnight. On an assessor who surveys thirty properties and hands back thirty PDFs with no underlying data, leaving someone in the asset team to retype it all into a spreadsheet.
We schedule in batches around your void programme and your residents, not around our diary. And you get the data, not just the certificates — exported in a structure your asset management system can ingest directly.
Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards already make it unlawful to let most domestic properties below band E in England and Wales, with limited exemptions that must be registered rather than assumed. Government policy has consistently pointed towards a band C requirement for the private rented sector and for social housing, and social landlords have been planning against a band C target for some years.
The practical consequence is the same whichever date finally lands: you cannot plan a route to band C across a portfolio you have not measured. An accurate, current EPC baseline is what turns a decarbonisation target into a costed programme — and it is what every funder will ask for before releasing money.
Compliance deadlines and exemption rules change with government policy. We will tell you what applies to your stock at the time you ask — and we would always recommend confirming current requirements with your own compliance team.
| What it is used for | Why the EPC matters |
|---|---|
| Warm Homes: Social Housing Fund | Eligibility is driven by starting SAP band. An out-of-date certificate can exclude a property that would otherwise qualify — or include one that will fail verification. |
| ECO4 | Pre- and post-works SAP modelling determines whether the whole-house minimum requirement is met and what the measure package must contain. |
| MEES compliance | Evidence of lawful letting, and the basis for registering any exemption. |
| Stock condition planning | The fabric data behind the rating is the raw material for a 30-year asset plan, not just the letter on the front. |
The methodology behind domestic EPCs moved to RdSAP 10, and it is a meaningfully different assessment from its predecessor: more granular data collection, better treatment of ventilation and heating controls, smart meter and solar data handled properly, and considerably less reliance on age-band defaults where real evidence exists.
In practice that means a careful assessor with good site evidence now produces a noticeably more accurate — and often more favourable — rating than a rushed one working from assumptions. It also means certificates produced under the older methodology may not reflect how the same property would rate today, which is worth knowing before you build a funding bid on them.
Occupied properties get appointment windows and resident notification handled in whatever way your tenancy team prefers — letter, text, or their own portal. Voids get slotted into the turnaround so the assessment is not what holds up a relet. Where access fails, we re-book rather than bill you for the visit.
Related: PAS 2035 retrofit coordination for what happens after the baseline, and air permeability testing where airtightness needs measuring rather than estimating.
Before You Ask
One Last Thing
Give us the addresses and your void schedule. We will come back with a batch plan, a fixed price and a lodgement timetable — and the data export format agreed before we start, not after.