{"id":20887,"date":"2018-11-23T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20887"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:55:52","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:55:52","slug":"ihbc-cpd-green-issue-quickquiz-do-you-know-the-abcs-of-epcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20887","title":{"rendered":"IHBC CPD Green Issue QuickQuiz: Do you know the ABCs of EPCs?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Context_156_p2_cartoon_by_Rob_Cowan.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20888\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Context_156_p2_cartoon_by_Rob_Cowan.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a>In the most recent issue of IHBC\u2019s membership journal <em>Context<\/em> our Green Panel Convenor John Preston discussed the issues around applying Energy Performance Certificates (EPC\u2019s) to traditional buildings, noting a recent call for evidence relating to their use.<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: Rob Cowan for Context<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>By way of a little CPD and a light-hearted (but important) quiz, members may be interested in trying to answer the following points on EPC\u2019s:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>How many categories of EPC are there?<\/li>\n<li>What do the initials STBA stand for?<\/li>\n<li>What percentage of the current building stock do older and traditional buildings make up?<\/li>\n<li>When was the ruling on landlords being required to improve the EPC rating of their properties introduced?<\/li>\n<li>Who published the recent document \u2018<em>Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards and Heritage properties: mitigating risks through the procurement and interpretation of energy performance certificates\u2019<\/em>?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>No (material) prizes are on offer, only the knowledge you are improving your CPD, while we\u2019ll post the answers in a follow-up NewsBlog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/context\/156\/4\/#zoom=z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View the full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See more <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=EPC\">IHBC NewsBlogs<\/a> on EPCs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the most recent issue of IHBC\u2019s membership journal Context our Green Panel Convenor John Preston discussed the issues around applying Energy Performance Certificates (EPC\u2019s) to traditional buildings, noting a recent call for evidence relating to their use. image: Rob &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20889,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20887\/revisions\/20889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}