We recently sat down with our CEO, Paul Hutchens to get his thoughts on current and upcoming industry challenges, so over the coming weeks we will be sharing what he had to say and how Eco2Solar Ltd are adapting and preparing for these.
To kick us off, the first video looks at the recent Part L and Part S regulations, the impact they’ve had on the industry and how we as a company have adapted to those changes.
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Unless you've been hiding under a rock, I think you'll have heard of parcel and part of the Building regulations. Just might be a good idea to just put a bit of context into that, explain what they are. Part of the Building Regulations relates to energy efficiency and energy performance and the expectation is this is a stepping stone to the future home standard which comes in in 20/25/2026. So part L came in in 2020. Do for implementation in 2023 and results in about a 30% improvement over 2013 building regulation performance. So as result of that's a big step but not as big as the as the full step to feature home standard which is going to take us to 75 or 80%. As a result of that the Part L will probably in most cases certainly 70 or 80% of cases mean better fabric and better performance from from that perspective. But also set of panels and maybe some ancillary technologies like. Through gas heat recovery or wastewater heat recovery, part S relates to the EV charges. So for all new buildings or new rather new houses starting from around about now, by all sites starting around about now, there will have to have a proper EV charger which is smart ready to go. So when somebody moves into the home, they've got an EV charger then plugged their electric vehicle into. When it comes to the implementation of Part S and Part L, we've got a bit of a head start on the basis that we've had a similar kind of dry run in Scotland. Scotland changed their building regulations back in 2016 and we took a little bit of a while for them to come through. But we found that within a year or two there were up to probably 80% of properties leading PV and we had to scale ourselves up to meet that. So we would expect that that ramp up to be similar, but just a bit bigger in England, obviously England's a. Slightly bigger place to deal with in the terms of the fact it is a bigger geographical area, but also the populated area is is is much larger. So more travelling. And as a result of that we've had to to gear ourselves up in a different way. So we set ourselves up for example with regional capacity and so we're able to get stuff delivered directly to site and then our installers can go and meet it. So it means we can use local installers as opposed to installers coming into Kidderminster or into Glasgow to pick things up and that's going to make a big difference as well as getting things directly shipped there. Apart from that, really it's a question of ramping up our installation capacity which really means more installers in more areas. It means that we need more capacity in terms of making sure we've got a liaison officers and and people who are able to supervise the work and also inspect the work and make sure that we're all getting all the work that we do. Lastly, our distribution channels are a bit more sophisticated now. We just been trialling those during the slightly quieter period before it gets really, really busy. She's just started to his hit this right now and we're able to get stuff delivered directly to sign, which makes life much easier because our guys just turn up in a smaller van or car, sometimes even to install things.
