Specialist BER assessments for car showrooms, dealerships and garages: glazed frontages, workshop heating and the EV-era compliance questions the motor trade now lives with.
A dealership is three buildings wearing one roof: a glazed showroom whose floor-to-ceiling frontage dominates its heat loss and solar gain, a workshop heated and ventilated like light industry, and offices and parts storage in between. Rating the building accurately means zoning those uses properly, and showroom stock is punished badly by assessments that treat it as generic retail.
The motor trade also sits at the front of the EV transition, and the compliance edge of that is concrete: non-residential buildings with more than 20 parking spaces were required to have EV charging in place by 2025, and dealership sites are precisely the premises this duty catches.
We zone the survey: the glazed showroom with its glazing specification and orientation recorded properly, the workshop’s heating, destratification and door losses, and the office accommodation between. Manufacturer-standard fit-outs often come with documentation that materially helps the rating; bring the franchise refit file to the survey and it gets used.
Forecourt and parking provision is checked against the EV duty while we are on site, so the compliance position lands in one visit.
A rating that reflects a properly zoned building rather than a generic retail assumption, the advisory report that targets the workshop and frontage losses worth fixing, and the EV compliance position confirmed. Dealer groups get one programme across every site, with a single schedule of expiries.
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