BERs installed in 200,000 homes

Dublin: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) have disclosed that Building Energy Ratings (BER) have now been issued to over 200,000 Irish homes.

A total of 201,854 homes have been rated by BER assessors across the country, marking an increase of 100,000 since February 2010.

Introduced in 2007 as part of the European Directive to improve the energy performance of homes, the rate of BER publications has steadily increased over the last two years since the introduction of a mandatory requirement for the inclusion of a BER certificate when selling or renting a home.