Energy Performance Certificate
AXA ENGINEERING ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE
The issuing of an Energy Performance Certificate is required for the purchase, sale, or rental of all commercial or residential properties. Energy Performance Certificates are also required for participation in subsidy programs aimed at improving the energy efficiency of domestic and commercial properties.
AXA Engineering issues Energy Performance Certificates with realistic and practical energy upgrade interventions especially tailored to your property. Our team includes a Class C Energy Inspector, a Class A Energy Inspector and an energy auditor. Energy certificates are valid for 10 years.
Obtaining Your EPC
The issuing process includes:
- A visit to your property by a qualified AXA Engineering energy inspector
- An energy efficiency study and calculation of the energy efficiency of your property
- Realistic and feasible proposal of interventions for effective energy saving of the property
- Issuance of the EPC
The Energy Certificate, also known as the Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is necessary for:
- Renting a single or part of a building.
- Any sale of a single building or part of a building.
- For the posting of an advertisement (in the press or on the internet) for the sale or lease of a building, an EPC is required to indicate the energy class of the building in the advertisement.
- Upon completion of the construction of any new or radically renovated building.
- For the inclusion of residential buildings in the Home Savings Programme.
- The energy upgrade of an arbitrary building, with up to 50% offsetting of the original fine.
- All public & wider public sector buildings.
The following are exempted from the obligation to issue an energy performance certificate:
- Buildings used as places of worship or religious activities.
- Buildings which, based on their design, are intended to be used for no more than 2 years
- Buildings with uses: Industrial, craft, workshop, warehouse, car parking, petrol stations.
- For lifetime donations, parental donations, acceptance of inheritance and donations on death.
- For unheated ancillary premises (warehouses, manufacturing plants, workshops, etc.) and land/plots without buildings.
- For renewals/modifications of existing leases (provided that the date of declaration of the original lease to the relevant Tax Office is earlier than 9/1/2012 for buildings larger than 50sqm or earlier than 1/1/2016 for buildings smaller than 50sqm and the tenant or the square meters of the property have not changed).
The Energy Performance Certificate is valid for a maximum of 10 years. A new Energy Performance Certificate must be issued in case of a radical renovation of the building.
An Energy Performance Certificate takes between 1 and 5 days to be issued, depending on the building being inspected.
No, it is not possible to issue an EPC for a building that is unfinished. As stated in circular 10/26.01.2011, according to the provisions of the KENAK, an EPC can be issued for a building after the construction of the building shell (installation of frames, glazing, painting), the installation of all plumbing and electromechanical installations and the supply of electricity. However, the above does not necessarily mean that the building cannot be rented or sold. If an Energy Performance Study (buildings with a building permit after 2010) is available for the building, then the seller or lessor shall disclose an estimate of its future energy performance. In this case the EPC is issued once the construction of the building or building unit is completed. In the case of sale/transfer, the building can be sold even if it is unfinished and there is no Energy Performance Study. However, after the building is completed, the handover-receipt of the EPC will take place between seller and buyer.