Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing post 2020: interim guidance for social landlords

Footnotes

1 Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing (EESSH): guidance for social landlords March 2021

2 Interim Guidance for Social Landlords during the review of EESSH2 (Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing post 2020)

3 Housing to 2040, the Route Map

4 Achieving net zero in social housing: Zero Emissions Social Housing Taskforce report

5 Zero Emission Taskforce recommendation report: Scottish Government response, Chapter 4 Providing social landlords with certainty

6 SAP 10.2 is currently in use for new dwellings, to comply with the dwelling and fuel type matrix this will require a conversion SAP10.2 to SAP2012 equivalents. There is a conversion lookup in table 15 of the SAP10.2 specification at bregroup.com. For existing homes that have been assessed under the current RdSAP-10 methodology (since 15 June 2025), this utilised the same energy cost factors as SAP 2012, so no SAP conversion is necessary.

7 Energy Efficiency Standard for Social Housing (EESSH): guidance for social landlords March 2021 – Paragraphs 9, 10, 55, and 64.

8 The Energy Performance of Buildings (Scotland) Regulations 2025

9 Home energy and fuel poverty

10 Building standards technical handbook 2022: domestic, section 3.14 , section 3.14.2 Ventilation awareness in dwellings

11 As noted in section 3, the Scottish Government will collaborate with social landlords to agree procedures for data collection and updating of their stock profile during the transition to using the new EPCs once reforms are implemented.