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Up to 5000 people who have paid to be trained as Housing Sustainability Assessors for the Federal Government's Green Loan Schemes, have been asked to withdraw their applications for accreditation.According to the Association of Building Sustainability Assessors (ABSA), the take-up has so greatly exceeded expectations that they are unable to process the applications and there is not enough work to go around.5000 assessors are already accredited, and more than half of the Green Loan assessments have been completed or booked. If the additional 5000 assessors fail to withdraw, there will barely be a month's work left for them.© DH 2010
Dear -------,
Currently there are over 5,000 assessors either working on the Green Loans Program or approved to join the program.
Recent statistics received from DEWHA suggest that 166,840 assessments have already been booked and 121,330 assessments completed out of an expected pool of 360,000 funded assessments.
When the Green Loans program and the Home Sustainability Assessment Scheme were set up in the first half of 2009 both DEWHA and ABSA thought the program would be a success if there were 2000 people working by the end of the first year. It has certainly been extremely well received by both assessors and householders, surpassing all expectations.
To help manage assessor numbers ABSA announced to the industry in early November that new applications would only be accepted until 21 January 2010 from those candidates who had completed their training by December 24, 2009.
This action did not have the intended effect of limiting the number of applicants to a sustainable level. Unfortunately the program had been so extensively promoted by third party organizations that ABSA received a large number of applications before, during and after Christmas, the result being that ABSA is now holding over 5,000 new applications awaiting processing.
As each application must be checked individually, ABSA is having great difficulty processing these applications on a timely basis. The administrative load is such that we have also found it very difficult to respond to personal communications from our existing members and applicants and so, if you have had difficulty contacting us during this time, we apologise.
ABSA recognizes that all those applicants who are awaiting processing have already spent money on training and professional indemnity insurance, but it seems counterproductive for ABSA to accept applications and take further fees from a large number of people when there is no guarantee or assurance of any particular volume of work under the Green Loans program.
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| Dear -------, The emails are coming in thick and fast with replies to last weekend's email giving applicants a choice of proceeding with their application or withdrawing. The withdrawal rate is less than 2%. Most people have taken the option to proceed. Some are committed to a long term career in the sector while others simply feel that they have no option but to proceed, having spent in the vicinity of $3000 on training and insurance. This is completely understandable. Entries received after the cut-off date are being held in our office and we will deal with these after all the other applications have been processed. ... [snip]... We will continue to update you by email over the next week or so. If you need to contact us in the meantime please use [email address deleted]. The less phone calls we receive the faster we can process application. For those who have withdrawn, we will return your applications in due course. |
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