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We do Home Energy Ratings for:
• New Homes
• Units & Town Houses
• Alteration Works

 

Feel safe in knowing that we are accredited with Design Matters, hold a Certificate 4 in NatHERS Assessments and perform House Energy Ratings including NCC 2025 Whole of Home Reporting.

 

Being based in Victoria we only do assessments on project/s within Victoria; both metro and regional.

 

No visits required
100% Online Service

 

We are also a small Australian family business. All our reporting and assessments are done right here in Australia, not off shore.

 

 

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Issuing Prices:
We issue our prices via email once we have been supplied the Detailed Working Drawings.

At the same time we will also issue a list of extra details required so we can complete the assessment/s. Questions asked means the information needed.

Once you are happy with the price then you just reply to the email with the details we have requested.

Issued prices via email are only valid for 30 days from the sent date on our email.

 

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Disclaimer:
Assessments (energy ratings) are based on the information supplied to us in the form of drawings plus emailed details.

It is not APR Building Services responsibility to make a project/dwelling achieve the minimum star rating required based on this information supplied.

We will put forward proposals for achievement but all fees are still to be paid for works already carried out and reassessment fees will apply to further works for compliance.

 

 

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Please Note:
If unpaid Tax Invoice/s are sent to
our Debt Collection Agency; then all costs for recovery will be payable including the amount/s shown on the Tax Invoice/s owed.

 

 

This website was last updated:

Pricing - 24.08.2026

Information - 24.08.2026

Full Website Update:

01.08.2026 to 30.09.2026

 

APR Building Services - Price Guide

 

DtS Software per Assessment, per Dwelling:

$199.00 Inc Gst: Single Storey - up to 200 SQM.
$249.00 Inc Gst: Single Storey - up to 300 SQM.
$299.00 Inc Gst: Single Storey - up to 400 SQM.
$349.00 Inc Gst: Single Storey - up to 500 SQM.

 

$249.00 Inc Gst: Double Storey - up to 200 SQM.
$299.00 Inc Gst: Double Storey - up to 300 SQM.
$349.00 Inc Gst: Double Storey - up to 400 SQM.
$399.00 Inc Gst: Double Storey - up to 500 SQM.

 

  • The pricing above is based on a new dwelling and/or existing with alteration works using standard basic designs and/or construction methods.
  • Non standard architectural designs and/or constructions methods will be priced accordingly.
  • All projects are issued a price via email with details required once we have received the Detailed Working Drawings.
  • Artificial Lighting Reports are not part of an energy rater's and/or DtS Software reporting process but if required/needed then a separate price can be issued.

 

 

Online Certificates per Assessment, per Dwelling:
(From the 1st of September, 2026 by FirstRate5)

$49.50 Inc Gst: New dwelling per assessment.
$49.50 Inc Gst: Alteration works per assessment.

 

When an assessment has been completed and paid for, the assessment file is required to be up loaded to FirstRate5® so a certificate/s and stamp/s can be purchased.

 

This certificate is to be submitted with your stamped Detailed Working Drawings to your RBS and/or Council.

 

Purchased certificate/s can now be replaced with new certificate/s after amendments/changes to a project for free but;
  • must have an identical address as the original certificate,
  • must be uploaded and produced within 12 months of the 1st original certificate date of issued.

 

Please Note: We don't stamp and/or issue Certificates/Reports for Town Planning, Preliminary and/or Not for Construction Drawings.

 

 

Alteration Work Sheet:

$99.00 - Work Sheet for Victorian Building Regulation 233 (Per Dwelling).

 

Please note that our Work Sheet for Building Regulation 233 is not an application form for partial compliance. We work out the volumes and floor areas of the existing dwelling to the Alteration Works.

 

Any decision/direction/processes for partial compliance is to be determined by other parties.

 

 

DtS Elemental Reports, per Dwelling:

The prices below are for individual DtS Elemental Reports (per report/per dwelling).

 

$129.00 - Part 13.2.3 Loss of Ceiling Insulation Report (Available).
$129.00 - Part 13.3 Glazing Calculator Report (Available).

$129.00 - Part 13.6 Whole of Home Calculator Report (Available).

$129.00 - Part 13.7.6 Artificial Lighting Report (Available).

 

If any of the DtS Elemental Reports are required as part of the your project, then our issued price via email will be $99.00 (per report/per dwelling).

 

If any of the DtS Elemental Reports are required after the fact, then the full $129.00 price applies.

 

$499.00 - Part 13 Energy Efficiency full Reporting.

(On hold till December 2026).

 

 

Review/Re-assessment Fees (Per assessment):

Any changes to material details, misinformation, errors and/or incomplete drawings supplied may incur review and/or re-assessment fees starting from $55.00 Inc Gst per hour per assessment.

 

But if there are major changes such as structural, changes to elevations and/or floor plan layouts then a new assessment/re-assessment maybe required with full fees applying.

 

 

Town Planning Drawings:

We also do assessments on Town Planning Drawings if required. These assessments are a guide/assumption only because they are based mainly on default settings and a lot of assumptions due to the lack of detail with in these try drawings. We don't stamp or issue final certificates/reports on these type of drawings.

 

Once we have received the Working Drawings for your Building Permit application then review and/or re-assessment fees will apply.

But if there are major changes such as structural, changes to elevations and/or floor plan layouts then a new assessment/re-assessment maybe required with full fees applying.

 

 

(All prices shown on this page Include GST)