Portoflio Manager Video Tutorials
Quick tip 2: Add a Multifamily Housing Property to Portfolio Manager
This video series will show you how to use Energy Star Portfolio Manager to help track your building’s energy use and compare its performance to similar buildings across Canada. Portfolio Manager is a free, online energy benchmarking tool that also allows you to report your building’s energy and water use directly to the Ministry of Energy. This video covers how to create a Multifamily Housing property profile in Portfolio Manager.
Chapters in this video:
- Is my property considered Multifamily Housing? (0:20)
- Use a Multifamily Housing Data Collection Worksheet to collect your data (1:18)
- Add a Multifamily Housing Property (2:00)
- Tips for entering basic property information (2:42)
- Tip: Use the postal code on your property tax bill (2:45)
- Gross Floor Area (3:16)
- Irrigated Area (3:53)
- Occupancy (4:01)
- Standard IDs (4:10)
- Add an EWRB ID (4:17)
- Add an EWRB ID during property setup (5:07)
- My property is a mixed-use building (6:58)
- When should I create separate Property Uses? (7:18)
- Parking not included in Gross Floor Area (8:16)
- Submitting data to The City of Toronto (10:01)
Links referenced in this video:
- ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager Portfolio Manager: What data is required to benchmark your property?
https://portfoliomanager.energystar.gov/pm/dataCollectionWorksheet?dcw.data=%7B%22country%22:%22CA%22,%22propertyUsages%22:%5B%7B%22propertyUse%22:%22MULTIFAMILY_HOUSING%22,%22useType%22:%22MULTIFAMILY_HOUSING%22%7D%5D%7D - When should I create separate Property Uses?
https://energystar-mesa.force.com/PortfolioManager/s/article/When-should-I-create-separate-Property-Uses-1600088548691 - Step 1 in this video series: How to obtain an EWRB ID
Step 1: How to obtain an EWRB ID - Submitting data through Portfolio Manager for Ontario’s Energy and Water Reporting and Benchmarking Initiative (See page 7):
https://files.ontario.ca/energy-portfolio-manager-guide-v8.2-en-2023-01-23.pdf - Enter an EWRB ID for your property
Quick tip 4: Enter an EWRB ID for your property
