Is the cost of the energy certificate offered in the market adequate?
Regarding the price Y Energy Certificate of Existing Buildings It is on its way to be in force for a few months and we can already see several of the trends that we hoped would occur. The first is that the owners are taking it easy to obtain the corresponding certificate.
In part it is normal, nobody demands it, more than surely at the moment in which the property is finally sold. At this point, I think it will be the buyers who should demand that the certificate be displayed, even if they have only been interested in the property or have visited it. They have the right to know the qualification of the property and, in part, it is for your information that this certification has been created.
The second trend is the existence of two types of certification professionals, sure there are more ways to catalog, but today is not the day. These two types of professionals are, in my opinion, those who value their academic and work training, and their time, and those who do not.
“Everyone values their time differently, so the rates that we can find around us will surely be very disparate, no complaint about this, it would be missing more, although later I will try to establish the “price"Of the certificate."
Professionals, who in my opinion, do not value their academic and work training, are those who they offer the certificate without making any visit to the property that is the object of the certification.
From the reading of Royal Decree 235/2013, of April 5, it is obvious that it is necessary to visit the property that is the object of the certification, since it speaks of “data collection”, “the competent technician will carry out the necessary tests and checks ”, etc. So let's try to analyze the energy certified price to see them fee that we should ask.
How is a property certified without making any visit? That it is the owner who provides the data needed to determine the rating of the home. Will the rating be the same as if the data is taken by a technician during his visit to the property? Obviously NO.Is this practice legal? We believe that indeed NO.Should we trust a professional who offers to carry out the energy certificate from his office? We again believe that NO.
How much does the energy certificate cost?
Let's see the different tasks that he certifying technician you must perform to issue a certificate.
- Call the client and set the date and time of the visit.
- Taking data from the cadastre and custom sketches.
- Displacement to the property.
- Data collection (walls, roof, floors, partitions, gaps, DHW and heating installations, etc.). Determination of materials and construction methods used.
- Travel to the professional's office.
- Data entry into recognized ministry software.
- Establish and quantify the improvement measures for the property.
- Register the certification in the corresponding Autonomous Registry.
- Bind and make copies of the energy certificate. Deliver to the owner.
How long has the previous job been? An average of 4 hours? Here each professional will value their Price hour as appropriate, but let's do the math. According to the excel for calculating the price / hour of Infoautónomos.com adapted to see the energy certified cost:
| Income | € | |
| Monthly net income goal | 2.000,00 | |
| Level of dedication | ||
| No. of weekly hours of work (average) | 40 | |
| No. of vacation days throughout the year | 25 | |
| Fixed monthly expenses | € | |
| Freelance quota | 255,00 | |
| Telephone | 60,00 | |
| Office | 200,00 | |
| advisory | 40,00 | |
| Others | 100,00 | |
| Total | 655,00 | |
| Non-billable hours | % on hours | |
| worked | no. hours / week | |
| Billing, Administration and Management | 10,0% | 4,00 |
| Sales | 25,0% | 10,00 |
| Public relations and advertising management | 10,0% | 4,00 |
| Training and R&D | 5,0% | 2,00 |
| Breaks, time-outs, casualties, trips … | 10,0% | 4,00 |
| Total | 60,0% | 24,00 |
| Results | € | |
| Net income | 2.000,00 | |
| Fixed costs | 655,00 | |
| Variable expenses billable hours | 624,96 | |
| Holiday cost impact | 181,85 | |
| Billing target | 3.461,81 | |
| Target price / hour | 49,85 | € / hour |
According to the previous table, if we want to obtain an income of € 2,000 per month, we must set our price / hour at practically € 50 / hour, since we have to have fixed and variable expenses, self-employed quota and that not all the hours of our work will be billable, as we must carry out commercial work, administration work, there will be some downtime, etc.
With these € 50 / hour, we already have the price of our certificate: 4 hours of work x € 50 / hour = € 200, which if we add the corresponding 21% VAT, we obtain242,00 €
Conclusion, € 100 certificates?…. We don't know how.
As a note, we know that many professionals have doubts about how to calculate the price of energy certificates, now, they have a new one available tool for him calculations of the fees and price of the certificate from the IVE (Valencian Building Institute) portal … “The objective of this tool is to offer a reference to bring transparency to the current market; on the one hand, valuing the real cost which involves carrying out these professional assignments and, on the other hand, detailing the works and content that are required of them to guarantee their correct performance. "… Which by the way, also calculates the IEE Report.
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Article prepared bySergio Martin Urquijo (Industrial Technical Engineer - Energy Manager) Technical Director of Nasik as a collaboration in OVACEN.
