Energy Performance Certificates prepared to the current Cyprus regulatory standard — for a permit, a sale, or a rental.
A certificate is also the shortest honest summary of how a building performs. Where the assessment shows easy gains, we say so; where a rating is going to disappoint, you hear it from us before a buyer's surveyor says it for us.
A permit, a sale and a rental need slightly different things. Establishing which of the three you are doing shapes the assessment.
You end up withScope agreedThe building's fabric, glazing, orientation and systems are recorded — from drawings where they are reliable, from the building itself where they are not.
You end up withBuilding data setThe rating is calculated to the applicable methodology, and the drivers behind it identified rather than left as a letter.
You end up withCalculated rating and its driversThe certificate is issued, with a short plain-language note on where the performance actually comes from.
You end up withIssued certificate and explanationBuyers now read the rating as a proxy for running costs and for the work a building will need.
A certificate is part of the paperwork, and a poor one is increasingly part of the negotiation.
The certificate closes out the compliance side of a project you have just finished.
On a purchase, the rating tells you what the renovation is likely to have to include.
C.F.L. has been designing and delivering buildings from Limassol since 2009 — long enough to know how the local authorities read a set of drawings.
Design, engineering, permits and inspection under one roof means one number to call when something needs deciding — and nobody able to point at somebody else.
The same office designs the fabric and the services, so the advice that comes with the certificate is about what would actually work, not a generic list.
If an improvement would not move the rating enough to be worth its cost, we say so rather than selling it.
Timings depend on the plot, the size of the building and how quickly the authorities respond. Ask us for a schedule against your specific project.
On request
Every plot, brief and building is different, so we quote against yours rather than publishing a figure that would be wrong for most people. Tell us what you are building and we will come back with scope and cost.
A single-storey house on an open plot in Kalavasos, planned around its pool and shaded terraces under white roof planes.
An established house in Fasoula reworked into one calmer composition, keeping its stone, its tiled roofs and its mature garden.
Villas stepped down a hillside above Agios Tychonas, each with its own terraces, pool and view.
A single-storey family house in Asgata, its stone entrance volume and timber screens set under broad white roof planes.
“Most of what people ask us in the first meeting is answered in here. Read it first — then the meeting can be about your project rather than the basics.”
What drives a rating in a Mediterranean climate, which improvements move it and which are cosmetic, and how buyers are starting to price it.
Get your free eBookConcept to photorealistic walkthrough, before a single wall is built.
Structural drawings and calculations produced in-house, coordinated with the architectural design from day one.
Mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) systems designed with the architecture, not bolted on afterward.
