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PAS 2030 Installer Scheme | What it is
The PAS 2030 Installer Scheme is a generic term used to refer to the process of gaining PAS 2030 certification and then accessing funding for the benefit of the home owner.
PAS 2030 lays out a set of requirements that is adopted by Green Deal and Eco installers to ensure that the low carbon energy measures they install in homes are to a high standard.
PAS 2030 | How to gain certification
To become part of the PAS 2030 Installer Scheme there is an element of preparation to get assessment ready. Once you are assessment ready, you can then engage with a certification body to carry out your assessments for PAS 2030 certification and TrustMark registration.
Getting assessment ready
There are two steps to becoming assessment ready:
- Quality Management System
- You will need to implement a quality management system (set of documents, policies and procedures) that demonstrates that it meets the standard.
- Skills competency
- Dependant on the measure that you are going for, you will need to demonstrate that there is the correct vocational qualifications and up to date health and safety training in place.
- This includes having a qualified Retrofit Co-ordinator/Assessor as part of your installation process
Certification/registration
Once you are assessment ready, you can engage with a Certification Body to carry out the relevant audits for certification:
- UKAS Certification Body Assessment
- A UKAS accredited certification body will need to carry out an audit on your management system and technical inspections (pre, mid and post installation) on a sample of your installations.
- TrustMark Registration
- You will then need to gain TrustMark Registration via a TrustMark Scheme Provider. Usually your Certification Body is also a TrustMark scheme provider.
What are the benefits to becoming part of the PAS 2030 Installer Scheme?
In a nutshell the commercial benefits are huge for your organisation. The government funding is helping home owners to be able to afford to update their energy efficiency measures, meaning many more opportunities for eco installers. There are other benefits too. Organisations who have PAS 2030 certification have proven their competency, skills and quality of installs – meaning much higher degrees of trust and confidence in your organisation.
A two day PAS 2030 awareness course – that provides candidates a fast track to gain knowledge of the standard and how to implement and maintain it – has been launched today by Simply Certification.
In partnership with Eco Academy, the first course will be delivered across two days starting the 10th November 2020.
Alex Gates, Simply Certification’s Sales and Marketing Director explains;
“This is such an exciting time for the eco industry in terms of opportunities for growth. However to benefit from funding and all of the opportunities available, there is a need to demonstrate compliance via PAS 2030.
There is so much to learn about the standard and this can be extremely confusing and time consuming. So with leading industry experts in the standard we have packaged this up into a two day training course.
As well as providing formal training around the standard, the course will allow candidates to get their heads around it quickly saving them much time and energy trying to figure it all out.”
Claire Irving, Leader of Eco Academy tells us;
“We’re delighted to partner with Simply Certification to deliver this. The team at Simply have such an impressive knowledge base of the eco industry, the PAS 2030 standard and the wider application and use of it.
With Simply’s expertise around the standard and our award winning training, I’m positive attendees will walk away feeling armed with everything they need to drive PAS 2030 throughout their business.”
Alex concludes;
“We do believe we are the first to design and deliver a PAS 2030 Awareness Course that covers the standard, requirements, best practice on implementation, how to maintain it and also how to gain business opportunities and funding once you have achieved it.
It’s truly a high value learning tool for any eco installation business.”
You can get more information and book direct onto the course by clicking here.
From 28 August 2020, homeowners and landlords can find out how the government’s new Green Homes Grant Scheme can help them to make their home more energy efficient via the revamped Simple Energy Advice Website.
The Simple Energy Advice Website, provides help and advice to the public on how they can get up to two thirds of the costs of energy efficiency improvement measures in their home.
The new push and website will drive more interest towards having a much more energy efficient home via the Green Homes Grant Scheme. This will lead to a push in the sector for more trades people to gain their PAS 2030 certification; in order for them to be able to carry out the installations under this scheme.
Simply Certification provide PAS 2030 assessment and certification and is currently offering 30% discount for all new customers.
You can start the application process today.
PAS 2035 is a standard, not a certification
We get many enquiries asking how to gain certification for PAS 2035.
That’s the first main misunderstanding. PAS 2035 is a standard, however it is not a certification.
The reason behind PAS 2030:2019 and PAS 2035
Existing properties in the UK are the least energy efficient dwellings in Europe. With more than 50% of existing properties being built before 1965, the Government and large energy providers recognised that funding would be required to encourage home owners to make their properties more energy efficient.
This ‘Retrofit’ scheme needed to be created to ensure that funding would only be used on high quality installations, therefore PAS 2030 was introduced.
What is PAS 2030?
PAS 2030:2019 is the latest standard that was released in July 2019, with only a small number of certification bodies, including Simply, offering certification.
The standard sets out a range of requirements that need to be met to gain certification. Having this certification then allows installers to register onto the Green Deal Orb. Only if you are listed on the Green Deal Orb can your customers benefit from the Green Home Efficiency Scheme, which a property owner can get up to £5,000 of funding towards the cost of a new installation.
What is PAS 2035?
In a nutshell it is the specification and guidance to the retrofitting of dwellings for improved energy efficiency. Every installer, to gain PAS 2030:2019 needs to demonstrate their ability to have a ‘whole house approach’ i.e. be able to plan an installation that considers the whole of the house; there is no point in getting a brand new boiler if the windows are performing poor.
For more information on PAS 2035 or PAS 2030:2019 contact our team today.
We are excited to announce that we can now offer PAS 2030 Certification and that our first 30 home efficiency installer customers will benefit from a whopping 30% PAS 2030 discount.
As we have recently launched Simply, we are going through the motions to put in place UKAS accreditation for the standard and are able to offer PAS 2030 certification immediately.
Once we have gained UKAS accreditation we will then transition our customers to the UKAS accredited certification which won’t be long!
Our team are the UK’s leading experts in PAS 2030 and are ready and waiting to be able to support your business in gaining certification for the standard that will allow your organisation to provide funded home energy efficiency installation across the measures you choose.
For those who want to start off the process with Simply Certification we are offering a discount as a loyal supporter of our new and growing business.
Austin Gibbons, one of Simply Certification’s co-founders tells us:
“Our application has already began and we’re underway to gain the scope from UKAS across all PAS 2030 measures and also to become a TrustMark Scheme Provider.
We have an extremely strong team that that have many years of experience in the home energy efficiency sector who provide a first class service to our customers. Our ethos is to provide a friendly certification service that doesn’t overcomplicate. The new PAS 2030 standard can be daunting, our aim is to make the process straightforward, quick and actually enjoyable!
The eco market is growing significantly due to the recent Green Homes Grant and the opportunities for our clients are massive. We provide a collaborative and high value experience to assessments to ensure our customers gain the most from them.
As a thank you to our first 30 customers we have decided to provide a 30% discount of their initial application fee for them to register with us along with a payment plan to help our client’s budget.”
To start the process, simply complete our application form today.
A new certification body, Simply Certification Limited, was launched in August 2020 and promises to make the ISO and PAS 2030 certification experience to its customers and enjoyable one!
Austin Gibbons, one of the founders of Simply explains;
“I’ve worked in the industry for a few years now as a lead auditor and consultant and it became really apparent to me that organisations actually viewed certification assessments on the whole as a negative experience. Often dreading ‘that time of year’ again which I felt was a shame.
It also appeared to me and that many certification bodies in general were quite dry and didn’t have much of personal appeal. Customer service and a positive culture is everything for a successful business, however this had seemed to be lost in the midst of assessments, standards and compliancy for many certification bodies.”
Austin continues;
“Simply Certification was born out of a team of us coming together with the same vision, attitude and passion; to provide a certification experience that wasn’t needlessly overcomplicated, that our clients enjoy and that is an overall great customer experience.
We are able to provide independent certification that satisfies many our client’s customers’ requirements. However we are underway to gain UKAS accreditation across a number of standards, which brings even more value to our customers.”
Based in the North East of England, Simply Certification are offering a range of products, including:
Launched in August 2020, Simply Certification is aiming to be the certification body of choice for the construction industry.
Austin Gibbons, one of the founding members of Simply explains:
“Construction is the natural choice for Simply as our key sector. Our team have huge experience in the sector as assessors, consultants and other disciplines which brings a lot to the table for our clients.
We’ve launched this new certification body as we felt the market was in desperate need of a provider that didn’t overcomplicate certification and who provided an enjoyable customer experience. There are many certification bodies around that have become large institutions that are feared and that have lost the “customer comes first” approach.
Our approach is personable, reliable and friendly. We recognise that yearly ISO assessments are often dreaded due to organisations not having a good relationship with their provider. We have broken the mould on this and work in a collaborative manner. Our customers come first and we are there to help their business to flourish.
Assessments should be seen as an opportunity to take a step back and take a look at a business to find improvements. Not a horrendous experience trying to quickly hide faults from the auditor. It’s amazing how many clients our team have come across that have a really dim view of their certification body.”
Compliance is key in construction
Having an independently certified management system such as ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environment), ISO 45001 (health and safety) and PAS 2030 (home energy efficiency installation) is quickly becoming a must for those in the construction sector to gain contract awards and access funding.
Austin explains:
“Having worked as a consultant and lead auditor in the industry I have seen huge growth in the need for organisations to demonstrate compliancy across a range of industry standards.
We have developed a suite of certifications that meets the needs of this industry in particular, including ISO 19650 (BIM) to enable our customers to use one certification body that meets all of their needs.
It’s an exciting time for us all at Simply and we very much look forward delivering the best service to our construction clients.”
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