Energy Performance, EPC & MEES
Since 2018, it has been unlawful to grant new leases for properties in England and Wales which do not meet the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES). MEES use Energy Performance Certificates (EPC), with any property below an ‘E’ deemed to fail the standard.
TFT has extensive experience advising our clients on EPC and MEES regulations in the commercial, retail and industrial sectors, including risks to asset portfolios and best approach to improve failing assets.
With tighter targets on the horizon (EPC ‘B’ by 2030 and potentially EPC ‘C’ by 2027) we provide support to future proof assets for these standards, reviewing measures that provide value for money over the course of a building’s lifespan.
EPC and MEES or beyond? Advice for all needs
TFT offers expert energy performance advice to optimise new and existing buildings. Our low carbon energy assessors offer a range of bespoke solutions to suit client aspirations and needs over a building’s entire life cycle.
We are involved across all stages of a project, undertaking exercises to account for energy performance across a building’s lifecycle, and across an extensive range of building types and scope:
- Fully fitted, Cat A and Shell and Core
- Commercial
- Retail
- Mixed-use development
- Residential
- Leisure
We offer energy audits, regulatory compliance, low carbon design and energy performance modelling for environmental assessments.
Energy Performance services offered
- Part L energy modelling and advice
- EPC energy modelling
- Compliance with Asset certification schemes
- Energy strategies for planning (see ‘Sustainability Assessments for Planning’ for related services)
- Thermal bridging calculations, construction detailing and airtightness advice
- TM54 Operational energy performance modelling
- Post Occupancy Energy Performance monitoring and review
- Energy auditing and reporting (used in conjunction with GRESB reporting)
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Meet our team
Mat Lown
Mat is TFT's Chief ESG & Knowledge Officer. He's a chartered building surveyor and a chartered project management surveyor with more than 30 years of working with many leading property companies, investors, and asset managers.
In 2007, Mat founded TFT’s sustainability consultancy, which helps TFT’s clients to understand the specific sustainability risks and opportunities when making property investment and development decisions. Ultimately, he would like to see sustainability becoming part of what constitutes best practice.
Mat’s articles regularly appear in Construction News, Estates Gazette, RICS and Property Week, and he is a lead author of the RICS Guidance Note, ‘Sustainability – improving performance in existing buildings’. Also of note is Mat’s thesis, ‘Building a Greener Future’, which was published by the CIOB in 1991. He is vice chair of the British Property Federation’s sustainability committee, and a member of British Council for Offices ESG group.
Mat is interested in how great buildings and places can create delight and he particularly enjoys the creative re-use of existing buildings. The South Bank is a great example of how a place can be rejuvenated by considered new interventions and careful restoration of the original building fabric.
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