{"id":20923,"date":"2018-11-27T16:10:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T16:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=20923"},"modified":"2018-12-05T16:34:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:34:05","slug":"ihbc-cpd-green-issue-quickquiz-part-2-do-you-know-the-abcs-of-epcs-the-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=20923","title":{"rendered":"IHBC CPD Green Issue QuickQuiz Part 2: Do you know the ABCs of EPCs? – The answers!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cartoon\"<\/a>In the last NewsBlog we offered you the chance to test your knowledge on energy performance certificates (EPC\u2019s), and now is the time to see how well you did!<\/h3>\n
image: Rob Cowan for Context<\/em><\/h6>\n

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The answers to our recent CPD NewsBlog QuickQuiz<\/a>\u00a0are below:<\/p>\n

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  1. How many categories of EPC are there? Answer: There are seven categories ranging from A to G (A being most energy efficient, G being classified as the least efficient)<\/li>\n
  2. What do the initials STBA stand for? Answer: Sustainable Traditional Buildings Alliance<\/li>\n
  3. What percentage of the current building stock do older and traditional buildings make up? Answer: Older and traditional buildings make up at least 25 per cent and up to 35 per cent of the existing building stock.<\/li>\n
  4. When was the ruling on landlords being required to improve the EPC rating of their properties introduced? Answer: April 2018<\/li>\n
  5. Who published the recent document \u2018Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards and Heritage properties: mitigating risks through the procurement and interpretation of energy performance certificates\u2019<\/em>? Answer: \u2018The Better Buildings Partnership\u2019. You can download this document<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    View John Preston\u2019s full article<\/a><\/p>\n

    View more information on EPC\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n

    See more IHBC NewsBlogs on EPC\u2019s<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In the last NewsBlog we offered you the chance to test your knowledge on energy performance certificates (EPC\u2019s), and now is the time to see how well you did! image: Rob Cowan for Context<\/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-20923","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\/20923","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=20923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20990,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20923\/revisions\/20990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}