We are looking for SKArating case studies to be featured as showpieces for all current schemes. If you have a project, office, shop, restaurant, university space etc that you believe shows exceptional examples of circularity, efficiency in energy and water, high wellbeing or materiality performance, please get in touch to discuss at [email protected] or fill in some project details and put it forward for consideration via the form below.
Thank you to all of you that have come forward so far to register your interest for the Offices v2 scheme update. We are now able to share more details of how we will go about the scheme update.
We will be hosting themed workshops on each of the SKArating categories through March and April. The workshops will be to review the key themes to be covered by the category in the update, the relevance and appropriateness of the Good Practice Measures and the principles for updates.
The dates and locations are:
| Workshop | Date | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Energy & CO2 | 20th March ’24 2pm | Morgan Lovell, 16 Noel Street, London, W1F 8DA |
| Project Delivery | 26th March ’24 2pm | Overbury, 77 Newman Street, London, W1T 3EW |
| Strategic Outcomes & Whole Life Impact | 3rd April ’24 2pm | Overbury, 17 Gresse Street, London, W1T 1QL |
| Pollution | 4th April ’24 2pm | Morgan Lovell, 16 Noel Street, London, W1F 8DA |
| Waste & Materiality | 10th April ’24 2pm | Overbury, The Zenith Building, Manchester, M2 1AB |
| Wellbeing | 17th April ’24 2pm | Gleeds, Interchange Place, 151-165 Edmund Street, Birmingham, B3 2TA |
Each category will be updated by a group of specialists covering all phases of the project lifecycle to ensure the SKArating Offices v2 represents good practice from across the sector, and will be overseen by the SKArating Technical Committee.
We’d like the groups to have representation from all parts of the fit-out supply chain, but as a minimum:
Our timelines for the update and release of Offices v2 are:
SKArating is your tool to drive sustainable fit-out, and we’d like as much of your expertise and experience as possible to put SKArating Offices back at the leading edge of the industry. If you haven’t already done so, please register your interest in being part of the workshops and update team at the link below. Please also pass on recommendations you may have for experts in the field that you think may contribute to the update to [email protected].
One of our priorities in the scheme’s development is the update of the Offices scheme.
This year it is to undergo an update, both in scope and criteria, and we are looking for assessors and other experienced fit-out related team members, who would like to support the process with research, insights and development of the scheme.
Some of the key issues included will be the alignment to delivering to Net Zero and Circularity, and the topic of Wellbeing and its scope in the current Environmental scheme. There will be industry workshops and lots of knowledge-sharing opportunities while making a big difference to our industry if the past scheme development journeys are anything to go by.
We very much hope you will be part of the team. If this is something you are interested in joining, whether for one workshop or all, please fill out the application form below.
As an update to our “Project Certification Fee Increase” post on the 15th Dec 2023, there is an upcoming fee increase on the SKA rating certificate for the assessment of projects.
The fee will increase from March 4th 2024 to £850 plus VAT. Please ensure your clients or certificate payers are aware of this change in good time before the issue of the certificate.
If you have any questions on this, please reach out to us at [email protected].
Hello Assessors! Your annual accreditation can now be processed, you have until February 26th to retain your place in the assessors directory and maintain assessor credentials on the online tool.
A few things to note:
• If you have trained and passed an Assessor exam after 2019 select the NEW accreditation process as you have not yet been formally accredited.
• If you were last accredited in 2019, select a re-accreditation, and you are required to pass the relevant scheme(s) examination as you have now reached your 3-year re-examination cycle.
If you have any questions on this, please contact us at [email protected].