Regarding the price and Energy Certificate of Buildings Existing is on track to be in force for a few months and we can already see several of the trends that we expected they occurred. The first is that the owners are calmly taking the obtaining of the corresponding certified.
In part it is normal, nobody demands it, more than surely when the property is finally sold. In At this point, I think it will be the buyers who should demand shows them the certificate, even if they have only interested in the property or have made a visit to it. They have the right to know the qualification of the property and, in part, it is for your information that this certification.
The second tendency is the existence of two types of certification professionals, surely there are more ways to catalogue, but today is not the day. These two types of professionals are, in my opinion, those who value their training academic and work, and their time and those who do not.
Professionals, who in my opinion, do not value their academic and work training, are those who They offer the certificate without making a visit none to the property object of the certification.
From the reading of Royal Decree 235/2013, of 5 April, obviously, the need to attend visit to the property object of the certification, since in it speaks of "data collection", "the competent technician will carry out the necessary tests and verifications”, etc. So let's go try to analyze the certified price energy to see the fees what should we ask for.
How is a property certified without a visit? any? Let the owner provide the data needed to determine the rating of the housing. Will the rating be the same as if the data is taken by a technician during his visit to the property? Obviously NO. Is it this legal practice? We believe that indeed NO. Should we trust a professional who offer to carry out the energy certificate from your office? Again, we think NO.
Let's see the different tasks that the certifying technician must carry out to issue a certificate.
How long has the previous job been? A sock than 4 hours? Here each professional will assess their price/hour as convenient, but let's do accounts. According to Excel to calculate the price/hour of Infoautónomos.com adapted to see the certified energy cost:
| Income | € | |
| Monthly Net Income Goal | 2,000.00 | |
| Dedication level | ||
| Number of weekly hours of work (mean) | 40 | |
| Number of vacation days throughout the year | 25 | |
| Monthly fixed expenses | € | |
| Self-employed quota | 255.00 | |
| Phone | 60.00 | |
| Office | 200.00 | |
| Advice | 40.00 | |
| Other | 100.00 | |
| Total | 655.00 | |
| Non-billable hours | % on hours | |
| worked on | number of hours/week | |
| Billing, Administration and Address | 10.0% | 4.00 |
| Sales | 25.0% | 10.00 |
| Public relations and management advertising | 10.0% | 4.00 |
| Training and R&D | 5.0% | 2.00 |
| Breaks, time-outs, casualties, displacements … | 10.0% | 4.00 |
| Total | 60.0% | 24.00 |
| Results | € | |
| Net Income | 2,000.00 | |
| Fixed expenses | 655.00 | |
| Variable expenses billable hours | 624.96 | |
| Holiday cost impact | 181.85 | |
| Target billing | 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 establish our price/hour at practically €50/hour, since we have to count on the fixed and variable expenses, self-employed quota and that not all the hours of our work will be billable, since we must carry out commercial, administrative work, there will be some timeouts, etc.
With these €50/hour, we already have the price of our certificate: 4 hours of work x €50/hour = €200, what if we add the corresponding 21% VAT, we obtain 242.00 €
Conclusion, €100 certificates?…. We do not know how.
As a note, we know that many professionals have doubts of how to calculate the price certificates energy sources, now, they have available a new tool for calculation of the fees and price of the certificate from the portal of the IVE (Valencian Building Institute)… “The objective of this tool is to offer a reference to bring transparency to the current market; on the one hand, assessing the real cost of the performance of these professional assignments and on the other, detailing the work and contents that are required of them for guarantee its correct execution.”… Which, by the way, also calculates the IEE Report.
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Article written by Sergio Martín Urquijo (Industrial Technical Engineer – Manager Energy) Technical Director of Nasik as a collaboration in Home Repair Care.
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