Save Money with Low Energy LED GU10 Lightbulbs

Those nice looking halogen downlighters in your home could be costing you hundreds of euros a year in elecricity. You could reduce your electricity usage by replacing the halogen bulbs with low energy LED bulbs. The most common fitting for those spotlight type recessed downlights are GU10 fittings. Most halogen Gu10 bulbs are 50 watt [...]

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Home Energy Saving Grants for Insulation

Grants for Roof and Wall Insulation: The Home Energy Saving (HES) scheme has been launched this year in Ireland to provide assistance to homeowners  in improving the energy efficiency of their home in order to reduce energy use and costs and greenhouse gas emissions. It is a national scheme and thus open to all owners [...]

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BER Certs now mandatory from January 2009

Building Energy Rating Certificates are now mandatory on existing homes that are put up for sale or rent from today (Jan 1st 2009). Homeowners who are not selling or renting their house do not have to apply for a BER cert. If a house was put on the market before January 1st 2009 – it [...]

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Fitting Attic Insulation – A Quick Guide

With BER – Building Energy Ratings coming iinto force for all house sales in January 2009 – Insulation is an easy way of increasing your property’s BER. Each type of insulation is fitted differently but most insulation can be installed as a DIY project. Whatever type of insulation you choose, you’ll need to make a [...]

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County Clare BER Assessors

BER Assessors located in County Clare: Dave Harkness BER Assessor Company: Seed Environmental Email: energy@harky.org Address: Seed Environmental Caherhurley Bodyke Tel: 087 7451687 David O’Brien BER Assessor Company: 3D Engineering Ltd Email: daveobrien1@eircom.net Address: 3D Engineering Ltd Cappamore Barefield Ennis Tel: 0879172171 Declan McInerney BER Assessor Company: Email: declan.mcinerney@o2.ie Address: “Allendale” Lahinch Tel: 086 8157102 [...]

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Boost For BER Assessors

The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources have announced a new Home Energy Saving Scheme aimed at encouraging homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their homes. The scheme will target older housing as these homes are most in need of energy efficiency retrofitting. Initially, there will be a regional pilot of the scheme [...]

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Registered BER Assessors Dublin 2

BER Registered Assessors (Building Energy Rating) based in Dublin 2 area Andrea Davey BER Assessor Company: OMS Architects Ltd Email: architects@oms.ie Address: OMS Architects Ltd 14/15 Sir John Rogersons Quay Tel: 01 6773490 Fax: 01 6774849 Web Site: www.oms.ie Declan Creegan Declan Kearns Anthony Reale BER Assessors Company: Energy Rate Ireland Email: info@energyrate.ie Address: Energy [...]

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BER – Who Checks the Assessors ?

BER – Building Energy Ratings are going to be big business in the coming months. The SEI is registering more assessors every month and getting a good fee from them. Trainers are making money from providing the courses for the BER assessors. The general public will be footing the bill for getting the Energy Rating [...]

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Kildare Building Energy Rating Assessors BER

BER Registered Assessors located in County Kildare: Alan Wright Co. Kildare Company: Energy Rating Ireland Email: energyratingireland@msn.com Address: Energy Rating Ireland 39 Mansfield Grove Athy Tel: 086 2528860 Locations covered: ULSTER, CONNAUGHT, LEINSTER, MUNSTER, DUBLIN Registration Type: NEW DWELLINGS Conor Furey Co. Kildare Company: Conor Furey & Associates Ltd Email: conor@conorfurey.ie Address: Conor Furey & [...]

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BER Assessors in Mayo

Some of the registered Building Energy Rating Assessors in County Mayo Company: National Energy Assessors Email: louise.sweeney@nea.ie Address: National Energy Assessors Lord Edward Street Ballina Tel: 096 79477 Fax: 096 79466 Web Site: www.nea.ie Expiry Date: 31/12/2008 Locations covered: ULSTER, CONNAUGHT, LEINSTER, MUNSTER, DUBLIN Registration Type: NEW DWELLINGS Company: Energy Survey Services Email: pat@energysurveyor.net Address: [...]

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Roscommon BER Assessors

BER Registered Assessors in County Roscommon Brendan Deeney Co. Roscommon Company: Deeney Architectural Planning Servi ces Email: bdeeney@esatclear.ie Address: Deeney Architectural & Planning Services Kiltobranks Ballaghaderreen Tel: 094 9860908 Fax: 094 9860908 Expiry Date: 31/12/2008 Registration Type: NEW DWELLINGS Michael Hennessy Co. Roscommon Company: APDS Email: advanced-planning@hotmail.com Address: Advanced Planning & Design Services Dorrary Carrick [...]

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BER Assessors in County Kilkenny

Building Energy Ratings Assessors (BER) in Co Kilkenny Barry Lynch Co. Kilkenny Company: EDPM Ltd Email: Address: EDPM Ltd Unit 5 Village Business Centre Upper New St Kilkenny Tel: 0567723707 Fax: 0567756466 Web Site: Expiry Date: 31/12/2008 Locations covered: MUNSTER Registration Type: NEW DWELLINGS Ben Hickman Co. Kilkenny Company: D. Brennan & Associates Email: ben_hickman@hotmail.com [...]

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BER Assessors in County Cavan

List of BER Registered Assessors – Building Energy Regulations Ireland in County Cavan Company: Brendan Smith Consulting Engineer Email: bsce@eircom.net Company: Airpacks Ltd Email: sales@airpacks.ie Company: P and S Civil Works Ltd Email: declangaffney@pandscivilworks.com Derek McCabe Co. Cavan Company: CO2.ie Email: derek@roebuckhouse.ie Gerard Reilly Co. Cavan Email: gerardreilly2000@yahoo.co.uk Gerry Brady Co. Cavan Email: egbrady07@eircom.net Nevin [...]

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Building Energy Rating Assessors – will more be needed?

In Ireland it is estimated that up to 200,000 people involved in rental or sale transactions  will need Building Energy Rating (BER) certificates each year. A BER (Building Energy Rating) is the standard calculation of the energy performance of a building, produced by a qualified assessor.  The BER certificate is an energy label, similar to [...]

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New Developments and BER

The new regulations that came into force from 1 January 2007 mean tha all newly constructed dwelling for which planning permission was applied for on or after January 1st, 2007 – must have an Energy Rating cert. It is unlikely that properties that only had planning applications in January would be ready to be sold [...]

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