National Administration System (NAS) Training System Overview Barbara Barrett Deirdre Flood 14 March 2008

Agenda Introduction to NAS The Welcome for NAS Pre submission information – Important fields in DEAP How to log on to NAS How to lodge a BER assessment Other features Questions

What is the National Administration System? The National Administration System (NAS) is a system for lodging BERs to the National “BER Register” as defined by Section 19(3) of S.I. No. 666 of Other functions of NAS Automatic administrative and technical checks on BER assessments Keeps an account of BERs submitted by each assessor and automatically charges assessors a fee of €25+ VAT for each assessment published Reporting function that supports the QA auditing process

Differences between Production NAS and Training NAS The Training NAS is duplicate of the Production system with following differences: Different URL No certificates generated “Training” appears at the top of each screen Assessments are not lodged to the National BER Register

Welcome received when account is set up on NAS Dear Assessor Trainer Congratulations on your successful registration as a Building Energy Rating (BER) Assessor for new dwellings. The information contained in this is required to submit BER assessments on the BER National Administration System (NAS) and for official correspondence with SEI. It is recommended that you save this for future reference. Your Personal BER Assessor Details: BER Assessor Name: Training 1 Registered Address: BER Assessor Number: NAS User Name: NAS Password*: Assessor Company Number: *Note: It is recommended that you change your password the first time you login to the NAS. Your password will need to be at least 6 characters long and include at least one symbol Login to NAS: Your user name and password above are required to login to the NAS: Assessor details (include in DEAP assessment)

Welcome received when account is set up on NAS Dear Assessor Trainer Congratulations on your successful registration as a Building Energy Rating (BER) Assessor for new dwellings. The information contained in this is required to submit BER assessments on the BER National Administration System (NAS) and for official correspondence with SEI. It is recommended that you save this for future reference. Your Personal BER Assessor Details: BER Assessor Name: Training 1 Registered Address: BER Assessor Number: NAS User Name: NAS Password*: Assessor Company Number: *Note: It is recommended that you change your password the first time you login to the NAS. Your password will need to be at least 6 characters long and include at least one symbol Login to NAS: Your user name and password above are required to login to the NAS: NAS log in details

Welcome received when account is set up on NAS Dear Assessor Trainer Congratulations on your successful registration as a Building Energy Rating (BER) Assessor for new dwellings. The information contained in this is required to submit BER assessments on the BER National Administration System (NAS) and for official correspondence with SEI. It is recommended that you save this for future reference. Your Personal BER Assessor Details: BER Assessor Name: Training 1 Registered Address: BER Assessor Number: NAS User Name: NAS Password*: Assessor Company Number: *Note: It is recommended that you change your password the first time you login to the NAS. Your password will need to be at least 6 characters long and include at least one symbol Login to NAS: Your user name and password above are required to login to the NAS: The training system URL is different This is the correct URL:

Pre-submission information

A B C D F E If required, this information must be correct to submit an assessment Useful field for identifying which student lodged an assessment

Logging on to Training NAS

Problems with submissions Three common problems encountered with logging on to Training NAS and lodging assessments: The log on URL is: The password entered incorrect; recommended you copy and paste it The BER assessor and company number are not entered correctly into DEAP assessment, or the file name is changed

Home Page

Using Training NAS for first time Change Your Password-6 characters, one must be a symbol e.g.: “£$%^&*() Turn off the option (not recommended for Production NAS) Click here to change options

How to Lodge an Assessment Click either “Rating Upload”

Upload Rating

Click “Browse” to select file

Copy of you will receive if upload accepted

Upload details on NAS

Publishing a BER Click “Publish Now”

Publish a BER

Click “Publish” to confirm above information

Publish Rating Information On publishing: BER becomes a legal document BER may be viewed on National BER Register Assessors are charged €25+ VAT Therefore you are asked to reconfirm publishing Click “OK” if you want to publish

BER example viewable on National BER Register

Searching NAS ratings

Search ratings using any/all fields

NAS ratings returned from Search

Printing BER Cert Option to print Published BERs only

Printing BER Cert Click “Open” to view BER Cert

View Rating details Click BER Number to view details

View Rating details Click Errors/Notices to view Notices details

Notice details

Not Yet Published (NYP) Click “NYP” to view all your NYP records

Rejects Click “Rejects” to view all your Reject records

Rejects Click Errors/Notices to view reason for Reject

Error and Notice details

Click here for more information on Errors/Notices

Repair Click “Repairable” to view all your Repairable records

Repair Reason why Rating is classified as in Repair

Other Features Home Page Public MPRN facility

Home Page Notice Board Links FAQs

Home Page -Training Demo

Home Page – Notice Board

Home Page - Links

Advisory Report Tool

Home Page - Links

Notices & Errors

Home Page - Links

Home Page - Frequently Asked Questions FAQ Tool

Public Click here to view your BERs that are viewable on Public National BER Register

MPRN

Record of questions and answers asked at this presentation Q:Where are all BER training presentations posted? A:All BER training presentations are posted on click on Training Provider, listed under Training Resources, SEI Presentationswww.sei.ie/ber Q:Is it possible to set a password to protect “Personal Settings” on the training NAS? A:No, this is not possible, with the exception of the differences already indicated in this presentation, training system is designed to be a duplicate of the Production NAS. Q:Do assessors get an invoice for assessment they publish on NAS? A:If an assessor publishes one or more BERs on NAS in any month, a VAT invoice and statement detailing the number of BERs published will be issued by to that assessor on the first working day of the following month and a direct debit will be made on the 20 th of the month or the nearest working day thereafter. Q:What would happen if I tried to lodge an assessment to NAS where the file name had been changed from the default file name? A:The assessment will be rejected by NAS.

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