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

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

3. 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 2006. 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

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

5. Welcome Email 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 email 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 email for future reference. Your Personal BER Assessor Details: BER Assessor Name: Training 1 Registered Email Address: training1@gmail.com BER Assessor Number: 500010 NAS User Name: 500010 NAS Password*: g7TWu/@(2_#H3y Assessor Company Number: 500010 *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: https://ber.sei.ie.https://ber.sei.ie Assessor details (include in DEAP assessment)

6. Welcome Email 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 email 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 email for future reference. Your Personal BER Assessor Details: BER Assessor Name: Training 1 Registered Email Address: training1@gmail.com BER Assessor Number: 500010 NAS User Name: 500010 NAS Password*: g7TWu/@(2_#H3y Assessor Company Number: 500010 *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: https://ber.sei.ie.https://ber.sei.ie NAS log in details

7. Welcome Email 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 email 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 email for future reference. Your Personal BER Assessor Details: BER Assessor Name: Training 1 Registered Email Address: training1@gmail.com BER Assessor Number: 500010 NAS User Name: 500010 NAS Password*: g7TWu/@(2_#H3y Assessor Company Number: 500010 *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: https://ber.sei.ie.https://ber.sei.ie The training system URL is different This is the correct URL: http://bertraining.sei.ie

8. Pre-submission information

9. 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

10. Logging on to Training NAS

11. Problems with submissions Three common problems encountered with logging on to Training NAS and lodging assessments: The log on URL is: http://bertraining.sei.ie/http://bertraining.sei.ie/ 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

12. Home Page

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

14. How to Lodge an Assessment Click either “Rating Upload”

15. Upload Rating

16. Click “Browse” to select file

17. Copy of email you will receive if upload accepted

18. Upload details on NAS

19. Publishing a BER Click “Publish Now”

20. Publish a BER

21. Click “Publish” to confirm above information

22. 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

23. BER example viewable on National BER Register

24. Searching NAS ratings

25. Search ratings using any/all fields

26. NAS ratings returned from Search

27. Printing BER Cert Option to print Published BERs only

28. Printing BER Cert Click “Open” to view BER Cert

30. View Rating details Click BER Number to view details

32. View Rating details Click Errors/Notices to view Notices details

33. Notice details

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

35. Rejects Click “Rejects” to view all your Reject records

36. Rejects Click Errors/Notices to view reason for Reject

37. Error and Notice details

38. Click here for more information on Errors/Notices

39. Repair Click “Repairable” to view all your Repairable records

40. Repair Reason why Rating is classified as in Repair

41. Other Features Home Page Public MPRN facility

42. Home Page Notice Board Links FAQs

43. Home Page -Training Demo

44. Home Page – Notice Board

45. Home Page - Links

46. Advisory Report Tool

47. Home Page - Links

48. Notices & Errors

49. Home Page - Links

51. Home Page - Frequently Asked Questions FAQ Tool

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

53. MPRN

54. 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 www.sei.ie/ber, 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 email 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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