2. Add & Set up your property

STEP 1 - After logging in to ESPM, click the ‘Add a Property’ button on the upper left of the MyPortfolio tab.

STEP 2 - Answer questions about your property

1. Property type (Main property type)
   
2. Number of buildings (Partial building, Single building or Multiple buildings)
   
1. Note: the most common selection is “One: My property is a single building” unless your building(s) have been approved to benchmark as a Campus by the CRD team
3. Construction Status (‘Existing’)
   

After adding this information, click ‘Get Started’

STEP 3 -  Add basic property information for all required fields (with a red star *).

1. Property name
2. Country
3. Address
4. City/Municipality
5. State/Province
6. Postal code
7. Year built
8. Gross Floor Area (GFA) in square metres
9. Occupancy

STEP 4 - Add your building’s “Capital Regional District - CRD Benchmarking” Building ID to your property in ESPM in the section ‘Standard IDs’ using one of the two options below. This important step enables the proper submission and tracking of your property in the CRD Building Benchmarking Program.

Option 1 - Add your “Capital Regional District - CRD Benchmarking” Standard ID to a new ESPM property

Continuing from the previous step of setting up your new property, scroll down to find the field ‘Standard ID - City/ Town’ and select "Capital Regional District - CRD Benchmarking" Building ID. 

In the ID field add the "Capital Regional District - CRD Benchmarking" number for your property from the Covered Buildings List.

You can find your "Capital Regional District - CRD Benchmarking" Building ID on the Covered Buildings List (Website Link) or when you have claimed your property in the Building Owner Portal.

After adding this information, click ‘Continue’

OPTION 2 - Add your Capital Regional District - Building ID to an existing ESPM property

To add your Capital Regional District - Building ID to an existing property, select the property from the ‘MyPortfolio’ tab, click on the ‘Details’ tab and click the Edit button under ‘Unique Identifiers (IDs)’. 

Add your Capital Regional District - Building ID from the Covered Buildings List (Website Link) and Save.

STEP 5 - Complete your property set-up by answering required fields (with a red star *) about how it is used. 

To complete this step, add the Gross Floor Area (in square metres) for each property use.  The total square footage of your combined property uses should match the square footage of your property that you entered in Step 3. For the CRD Benchmarking program, you can select a single Property Use type (select the one that represents the greatest proportion of your building’s Gross Floor Area). You have the option to create multiple Property Use Types in ESPM, if this is useful for your own tracking purposes, but adding multiple Property Use Types is not mandatory for the CRD program.

1. For example, if you have an Office with a Restaurant and a Health Club, you could enter one Property Use ("Office"), and include the Gross Floor Area (GFA) and energy use data of the Restaurant and Health Club within the "Office" property use.

When you have completed this step, click ‘Add Property’. 

Note: Weekly Operating Hours, Number of Workers on Main Shift and Number of Computers are not required for the CRD program. These fields are used to calculate the building’s ENERGY STAR Score, which is useful for building owners and managers but not required for compliance with the CRD program. If you are choosing to fill out these optional fields for your internal tracking, also include the Property Use Details (Number of Workers, Computers, etc.) from the ‘secondary’ and ‘tertiary’ Property Use Types in your ‘primary’ Property Use Type.

For more information and to contact the Help Desk, Submit a Ticket for 'Help using Energy Star Portfolio Manager'.

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