It's been a long time since certifying technicians have been waiting for this news due to the wide use in the sector of the certification of houses of the CE3X program. Officially, the CE3X can now be used before the certification of new construction buildings . TO take note!
So far, the program has been advancing in its multiple versions and with an important variety of complements (Example; Complement improvement measures in the enveloping and its potential) that year after year bring new capabilities to facilitate the daily task of the technician certifier, but we just kept working on everything type of existing buildings without being able to elaborate reports on new construction .
As we can see in the following image from the Ministry of Industry in its section of «
Content menu:
With this new expansion of the capabilities of the certification that are processed through a plugin that we will have to add we can certify now:
In order to practice the certification of work new we are going to need to install a plugin that will extend the usefulness of the program. This supplement is provided by the management company of the CE3X software, what is Efinovatic.
The use of CE3X for the certification of buildings new is practically similar to the
of existing buildings, although as is evident there are some restrictions regarding the scope of certification. Manual access from HERE.
Of course, we have to have the latest version installed of the CE3X whose operating needs are:
Once we have the latest version installed of the CE3X (As of the date of this article we are in the Version 23). We will have to download the add-on installer and run it (preferably with CE3X closed). Later, when you re-enter the program, you will see the option "Energy certification of new buildings" in the “Add-ons” menu.
You can access both the latest version of the CE3X as of the new plug-in or its manual from HERE of the Ministry of Industry itself. (Lower the cursor and go to the section «Complement to the CE3X program for the energy certification of new buildings»):
As indicated by the Ministry of Industry, all inquiries about this new plugin for sale practice via info@efinovatic.es
All types of buildings can be certified existing: residential , small tertiary and great tertiary . without good, for new buildings , you can only use before buildings residential buildings and buildings small tertiary , being out of reach of CE3X only new buildings of great tertiary . It is understood that small tertiary is one that has an installed thermal power lower than 70 kW.
The program itself will check if the conditions are met and the limitations. In the event that any of the circumstances that prevent the issuance of the certificate, the program will notify you with a Notice:
Be careful! Even if it appears a Warning, it will let us continue, because there is the possibility that you are certifying the certificate for a small local or office that is connected to a boiler that serves the entire building.
You should look at the manual l since there are different conditions on the envelope that we have to certify and in it, it is explained with every detail.
In the final result of the report we would have:
