Review sets out 27 recommendations to boost uptake of energy efficiency measures
Peter Bonfield鈥檚 long-awaited review into domestic energy efficiency has called for a government-backed quality mark for green home improvements to protect homeowners.
The BRE chief executive鈥檚 review, co-commissioned in July last year by then energy secretary Amber Rudd and then communities secretary Greg Clark after the collapse of the failed Green Deal, stops short of recommending policy replacements but makes 27 recommendations.
In his review, Bonfield said there have been 鈥渢oo many instances of poor quality [energy efficiency] installations being made by companies who do not have the skills, quality levels or core values required to operate responsibly in this market.鈥�
His review proposes a single quality mark for all energy efficiency and renewable energy measures, which would be backed by a consumer charter, code of conduct and code of practice, similar to the Gas Safe Register, TrustMark or Kitemark.
It recommends clients including government, social landlords and private finance organisations require firms to have the quality mark as a pre-requisite to win work.
It also calls for an overarching standards framework for the delivery of retrofit of energy efficiency and renewable energy measures, which would build on existing standards and be made freely available under licence to all installers.
The review proposes a Strategic Governance Board 鈥� made up of industry and government representatives 鈥� be created t