Awaab’s Law Phase 2: Excess Cold for Energy Assessors
Awaab’s Law phase 2 brings excess cold into the fixed repair timescales for social landlords. This 30-minute video session explains what that means, how cold homes harm health, who is most at risk, and the faults an energy assessor can spot and record on a visit.
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Awaab’s Law Phase 2: Excess Cold for Energy Assessors
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What you’ll learn
- Explain what Awaab’s Law phase 2 adds, and why excess cold now runs on a timetable
- Describe how cold homes harm health, and the temperatures that matter
- Recognise the homes and households most at risk
- Spot the fabric, heating, control and ventilation faults that leave a home too cold
- Record what you find clearly, and know when to pass it on
About this course
Awaab’s Law requires social landlords in England to investigate and put right certain hazards within fixed timescales. Phase 2 extends those rules to more hazards, including excess cold, so a home that is too cold to live in safely now has to be dealt with on a set timetable.
Energy assessors are often among the few people who look round a social home in detail. This session explains what phase 2 adds, how cold homes affect health and the indoor temperatures that matter, which homes and occupants are most at risk, and the fabric, heating, control and ventilation faults that leave a home too cold.
It ends with how to record what you find clearly, and when to pass it on, so your notes are useful to the landlord and you stay within your role.
What’s in the session
- 0:00 Introduction: why excess cold matters to energy assessors
- 1:30 Awaab’s Law phase 2: the phases, who it covers, the deadlines, and the actual household
- 5:44 Cold homes and health: the temperatures that matter, who is most at risk, cold and damp
- 8:32 The benchmark: 21°C and 18°C at −1°C outside, what an EPC can and can’t show, homes that start colder
- 11:43 The building fabric: walls, cavity fill, lofts, awkward roofs, windows and floors
- 16:37 Heating, controls and air: boilers, storage heaters, heat pumps, controls, ventilation and draught-proofing
- 22:01 On the visit: a 12-point checklist, worked examples, recording, who to tell, reflection and recap
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