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.

  • Software bug identified in FR5 v5.2.10 (3.13) - Raked Wall Helper

    Dec 12, 2018
    Sustainability Victoria (SV) has identified a software bug in FirstRate5 v5.2.10 (3.13) related to the Raked Wall Helper. SV is currently investigating the software bug and will release a bug fix version of FR5 v5.2.10 (3.13) in the coming days. In the meantime, users can continue to use FR5 v5.2.10 (3.1.3) to create project files as long as they do NOT use the Raked Wall Helper.
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