Happy Birthday ORS! 
Over the past ten years you’ve hosted 1,300 professionals from 600 companies working on over 10,000 projects towards Austin Energy Green Building ratings. You’ve collected almost 90,000 comments and 52 Case Studies! You’ve come a long way from that excel spreadsheet we used to email back and forth!

Celebrate with us by baking a low carbon cake, like this example from Canada: Low-Carbon Cake. There are plenty of great, Texas-based ingredients to substitute in to reduce the impact of food miles and carbon intense ingredients. Or, if you just want something tasty try this Orange and Rosemary Snack cake: ORS Cake

Thank you for the past ten years with us, ORS!

New 2020 Multifamily and Single Family ratings
Austin Energy Green Building is pleased to announce updated single family and multifamily rating guides that raise the standards for energy efficiency, water quality and conservation, indoor environmental quality, material resources and site development. The new standards will go into effect for projects submitted on or after Monday, June 22, 2020. In addition to the new rating guides, you may now access companion innovation guides that help project teams explore additional ways to creatively address sustainability issues.

You can find these resources, along with a summary of substantial changes to the rating standards, in the help section.

Proud Participant Identifier
Austin Energy Green Building has developed a new Proud Participant Identifier! Log in to the ORS and go to the Resources section of your Organization Profile to Accept the Guidelines. See the attached document for additional help.

Upload More Single-Family Production Addresses
Need to add a lot of addresses to a single-family production project? We’ve got you covered! Austin Energy Green Building has developed an enhancement to allow multiple addresses to be added at one time to the Addresses tab with the use of a spreadsheet template. Log in to the ORS and check out the new ‘Import Multiple Addresses’ button.