Scottish Government launch new Heat in Buildings strategy - quality assurance: policy statement
Quality assurance is critical to our heat decarbonisation aims. This policy statement focuses on the standards, skills and certifications required for installers on SG schemes, proposed ways to tackle scams and mis-selling and how to improve public engagement.
The Scottish Government has committed to work with TrustMark to create a new quality assurance scheme which will become a requirement for its upcoming successor to the Home Energy Scotland (HES) loan and cashback scheme for energy efficiency measures. The TrustMark scheme will be in accordance with the principles of the British Standards Institution (BSI) Publicly Available Specification (PAS) 2035/30 standards.
Some key actions from this policy statement include:
Scottish Government to introduce a new requirement that applicants must use approved suppliers through Scotland's TrustMark scheme for energy efficiency work.
A Scottish Quality Assurance Consumer Oversight Group will be set up to oversee the implementation of the Scottish TrustMark energy efficiency approval scheme and oversee changes and improvements to the existing MCS scheme in support of our Heat in Buildings Strategy.
For non-domestic support schemes, key stakeholders to look at quality issues experienced by businesses and to consider the role of BSI PAS 2038 retrofit standards in overcoming these and considering an appropriate approval mechanism for this.
BSI to establish an expert technical group to advise about retrofit standards in Scotland and develop best practice that reflects the nature of our housing stock, weather and other environmental factors.
Integration of the Scottish installer skills matrix into both the BSI PAS 2030 installer standards and MCS installer standards in 2022.