FirstRate5^® house energy rating software

Sustainability Victoria is pleased to announce that FirstRate5 v5.3.0 (3.21) has successfully passed the NatHERS accreditation process and is now available as a free download from www.fr5.com.au. In addition, the accreditation of FR5 v5.2.11 (3.13) has been extended, a new certificate template has been released and changes have been made to the Software Licence Agreement and the website's Terms of Service. This news story provides important information about all these announcements.

With the release of FR5 v5.3.0 (3.21), Sustainability Victoria (SV) has made some changes to the Software Licence Agreement (Licence Agreement) which governs your use of the FirstRate5 (FR5) software and the End User Terms of Service (Terms of Service) which govern your use of the FR5 website. The key changes are summarised in this news story.

Sustainability Victoria is conducting a survey to gather feedback on the FirstRate5 software and website and FirstRate5's technical support service for the last year.

Changes have been introduced to enhance the security of the FirstRate5 preview certificate. From Friday 8 November 2019 (11:45 AM) preview certificates generated on the FirstRate5 website will be converted to images and a greater area of each page will be covered by the preview watermark.

It has come to Sustainability Victoria’s attention that there is a problem with how some folders are named in the AFRC Custom Windows library included in FR5 v5.2.11 (3.13). The problem relates to the fact that some manufacturer’s windows are contained in two folders because folders have been named in slightly different ways. If you are looking for a window from an affected manufacturer you may need to check both folders.