BER assessments for pubs, bars and licensed premises: kitchens, cellar cooling and heritage fabric assessed by people who understand how the trade actually runs.
Pubs concentrate more assessment complexity per square metre than almost any building type: commercial kitchens, cellar cooling running around the clock, long and late occupancy hours, and, very often, heritage fabric whose construction defies every default in the software. Many of the country’s pubs are in buildings older than the State, and rating them fairly is a craft.
The trade also transacts in a particular way: sales of licensed premises move quickly when they move, and the BER is one of the documents a sale cannot close without. Having it done in the quiet season, rather than mid-deal, is worth real money in calm alone.
Surveys are booked around trade, mornings before opening are the norm, and we survey what actually drives the energy profile: the kitchen’s extract and gas load, cellar cooling, hot water serving bar and kitchen, the heating that copes with door traffic, and fabric details that older buildings hide. Where the premises includes accommodation upstairs, the demise split is resolved properly rather than fudged.
For protected structures, the exemption question is answered honestly before any fee: if the building does not need a cert, we say so and you keep your money.
A certificate ready before the sale or lease needs it, a defensible rating for a building type that defaults treat unfairly, and an advisory report aimed at the bills a publican actually pays: cellar cooling, kitchen extract and hot water first. Groups with multiple houses get portfolio rates and one renewal calendar.
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