FR5 Software

FirstRate5® house energy rating software

FirstRate5® is an easy-to-use interactive tool with a graphic user interface that enables designers and thermal performance assessors to generate energy ratings for a home by tracing over floor plans. The software integrates the AccuRate calculation engine to estimate the annual heating and cooling energy and can be used to rate an existing design or as an interactive tool to optimise the design beyond compliance.

  • Release of FR5 v5.2.8a (3.13)

    May 01, 2018
    FirstRate5 v5.2.​8a (3.13) is now available as a free download from www.fr5.com.au.This version is a minor bug fix release. SV recommends that all users upgrade to this version. This bug fix version addresses the issue of missing windows in the AFRC custom windows library included with FR5 v5.2.8 (3.13). The custom windows library supplied to SV at the time release did not include the A&L-004 range of windows and this error has now been rectified in FR5 v5.2.8a (3.13).
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