Accreditation schemes are responsible for managing air conditioning energy assessors and for the quality of air conditioning inspections by ensuring their energy assessors are competent and possess the appropriate skills to conduct energy assessments. To ...

An air conditioning report must be produced by an accredited air conditioning energy assessor. The energy assessor must make a copy of the inspection report available to the client, or to the person who controls the operation of the system, as soon as pra...

Complaints about the availability or quality of an air conditioning inspection report, about an energy assessor who produced the report or the energy assessment should be directed to the following: FAILURE TO SECURE AN AIR CONDITIONING INSPECTION REPORT...

The person who controls the operation of the system is the person who controls the technical functioning of the system, not someone who does no more than adjust the temperature or whose only responsibility is to adjust the controls. The owner of the sys...

The effective output of an individual air conditioning unit or system may be given on the rating plate attached to the unit. It may also be stated in the operating and maintenance manual or from the manufacturer's website. Alternatively, where the system ...

Local weights and measures authorities (usually through their trading standards officers) are responsible for enforcing the requirements relating to air conditioning inspection reports. Failure to commission, keep, or provide an air conditioning inspectio...

An energy inspection of an air conditioning system must be carried out by an accredited air conditioning energy assessor who is a current member of an accreditation scheme. The energy assessor must make a copy of the inspection report available to the cli...

The person who controls the operation of an air conditioning system must: * ensure an inspection has been done in accordance with the requirements and timetable of the regulations * keep the most recent inspection report provided by an energy assess...

The air conditioning inspection report must be kept in a safe place so that it can be used to inform subsequent inspections. It is recommended that the inspection report should be kept in the building log book, together with ongoing maintenance and/or ene...

Only air conditioning systems with an effective rated output of more than 12kW are affected by these regulations. This will include systems consisting of individual units which are less than 12kW but whose combined effective rated output is more than 12...

The air conditioning inspection process will examine the refrigeration equipment and air moving systems that are part of an air conditioning system, including their controls. Any documentation which helps to understand the system, or indicates the extent,...

REFRIGERATION Refrigeration equipment and its associated heat exchange systems are checked briefly. The inspection looks primarily for indicators of damage or lack of maintenance that would significantly reduce their efficiency from their "as new" state...

The inspection report must include an assessment of the efficiency of the system and its size compared to the cooling requirements of the building. It must also contain appropriate advice on possible improvements to the system. The inspection report mus...

The purpose of the inspection report is to ensure that the building owner or manager is provided with information regarding the efficiency of the air conditioning systems that they control, together with advice on how to improve the energy efficiency of t...

The inspection will examine the refrigeration and air moving equipment that are part of air conditioning systems and their controls. It will also examine any documentation that helps to understand the system, or indicates the extent to which the system ha...

All air conditioning systems with an effective rated output of more than 12kw must be regularly inspected by an energy assessor. The inspections must be no more than five years apart. The regulations require the first inspection of the affected air co...