Since 01st October 2007 a new edition of the energy saving order is valid. Essential innovation is the introduction of a certificate of energy consumption, which will have to be presented to the tenant or buyer of a real estate. For residential buildings that were finished till 1965 , the certificate has become duty since 1st July 2008. For later residential buildings it will be the 1st January 2009 and for non-residential building the 1st July 2009. Up to now the technical standard of a real estate in financial regards has only been recordet in blurred comparative values. Now it can be expected that the technical standard becomes increasingly an autonomous topic within the sales process. For the buyer of an inventory real estate otherwise would be made to take over a risk inestimable from him.

Whether your expert is an "independent", "appointed and sworn in" or "certificated" appraiser- in case of a dispute and in court the title of an expert changes nothing.

Probably the German appraisal procedures are a little different to those used somewhere else, nevertheless you,as a consumer of an appraisal, can check the credibility of the certificate yourself with the help of the following questions:

Caused by a high degree of laws and standards to be taken into consideration in Germany a heavily dissected organisational structure of the project involved parties has set up. Combined with a construction activity predominated by the management with the inventory this structure is no longer economical. Good reason to find back the way to the architect as the all-rounders he always claimed to be.

On conversion, and redevelopment measures it are the qualities described in the invitation for tenders which decide on whether the builder-owner gets what he wanted. It's fine, if the planner is not only a draftsman.

Especially on old buildings for which only a limited modernisation is planned there is the problem to do the calculations necessary for the certificate of energy-consumption. In addition the results have to be assessed, concerning the possible measures for heat insulation.

To keep the number of involved parties within your building project small, it takes a firmly agreed report system and an expiry planning - not natural if one talks only in confidence. But in the end, you are your own controller.

It has to annoy every site manager to fix dates and than just notice without any consequence, when these target dates have elapsed. If he acts like this he loses any possibility to take countermeasures when fixed periods are endangered.

A certificated quality management system according to ISO 9001 can become excessive bureaucratic , but the hundred-year-old experience of your partner is no guarantee for an actually existing selforganization, with tested expiries, tools and samples