BER rating system set to change - what you need to know

About this episode

Joe Durkan explains the upcoming changes to Ireland's building energy rating system.

Ireland’s building energy rating, or BER system, is to be changed from next month - with the current 15 point scale set to be replaced by a simpler system. Joe Durkan, Head of Technical National Retrofit at SEAI joins Andrea to explain it all.

People in this episode

Host: Andrea

Guest: Joe Durkan

Topics covered

• building energy rating
• BER system
• energy efficiency
• sustainability
• retrofit

Keywords

• BER rating
• energy rating
• Ireland
• SEAI
• building standards

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SEAI

Places: Ireland

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