Load Calculator Upgrades
This page is updated regularly with all significant changes, updates, upgrades, and bug fixes made to the Energy Design Systems’ Load Calculator program.
February 2023
- 21: Primary registration account clarity
- 21: Backend ugrades
- 21: Thank you page
- 21: Updates welcome/registration emails
- 7: Report label updates
- 7: Sign up for new plans design and UX overhaul
- 7: Show only recent loads for performance, view all loads page to see and search all previous loads
- 7: Displays address on initial load
- 7: Consumer tool updates, including field requirements, additional color fields, and thank you messaging
- 7: Consumer tool delete lead functionality, and sandbox mode setting on edit page
- 7: General bug fixes and improvements
January 2023
- 25: Mobile style fixes and updates
- 25: Consumer tool send email on new lead
- 16: Regular bug fixes and improvements
January 2023
- 16: Consumer Tool release
- 16: UX and mobile design updates
- 16: Navigation overhaul
- 16: Business logic improvements
- 16: Regular bug fixes and improvements
January 2023
- 1: PDF Backup generation service added to pipeline
- 1: Adds ability to update customer information mid-audit
- 1: Email Confirmation on subscription cancellation
- 1: Regular bug fixes and improvements
December 2022
- 14: Updates password reset verbiage for clarity
- 14: Server side performance upgrades
- 14: Load Calculation reset language for continuity
- 14: Regular bug fixes and improvements
October 2022
- 31: Updates styling in certification section for site continuity
- 31: Updated verbiage to align with industry norms
- 31: Backend adjustments to increase calculation speeds to server
- 31: Regular bug fixes and improvements
September 2022
- 12: Adds additional certification logos
- 12: Updated input fields
- 12: Misc verbiage updates
- 12: Regular bug fixes and improvements
August 2022
- 16: Highlight input fields on change
- 16: Flash and highlight square footage fields when automatically updated by calculations
- 16: Verbiage and nomenclature updates and upgrades
- 16: Adds additional error checking for R-value inputs and disallows 0 inputs
- 16: Styling updates and consistency improvements
- 16: Regular bug fixes and improvements
July 2022
- 5: Upgrade PDF email functions
- 5: Additional email validation checks on signup
- 5: Regular bug fixes and improvements
June 2022
- 27: Update account "Manage Subscriptions" page for users with multiple accounts.
- 27: Users with multiple accounts can now login as a sub-user.
- 27: Internal upgrades to assist with multi-user subscriptions
- 27: Regular bug fixes and improvements
- 6: Improvements for backend group account functionality including Stripe automation
- 6: Updated report labels for PDFs
- 6: Improvemed email validation for user experience
- 6: Navigation improvements
- 6: Backend enhancements for performance and functionality
- 6: Regular bug fixes and improvements
April 2022
- 1: Improvements in site-wide descriptions for input fields
- 1: Regular bug fixes and improvements
December 2021
- 1: Referral reward program that offers discounts for new users and unlimited account credits for each successful customer referred
- 1: Existing users may generate a multi use referral URL, or send a personal email to peers
- 1: Enhanced primary and non primary user restrictions for account and data security
- 1: Adds additional admin features to enhance our ability to provide exceptional service
- 1: Improved 404 and error pages
- 1: Regular bug fixes and improvements
November 2021
- 4: Primary account users can now cancel subscriptions without EDS assistance
- 4: Ability to change account email with added OTP security
- 4: SHGF and other verbiage updates to comply with industry standards
- 4: Duke Energy Certification added
- 4: Improved 404 and error pages
- 4: Regular bug fixes and improvements
October 2021
- 15: Square footage result presents options in event of data variance
- 15: Regular bug fixes and improvements
September 2021
- 30: Additional PDF report features
- 30: Report literature updated
- 30: Increase reliability of third party parcel data
- 30: Updated SHR notes
- 30: Ability to update and display Summer Wet Bulb Temperature
- 30: Overhauled responsive design for mobile and tablet
- 30: Regular bug fixes and improvements
August 2021
- 31: Change operating load legend sizing for clarity
- 31: Add itemized subscription breakdown on User Edit for easily accessible information
- 31: Add loading overlay for load calculator when calculations are being made
- 31: Adjusts position of login/register default text for ease-of-use
- 31: Add Mobile-Phone field to register/user account in addition to Office-Phone for enhanced functionality and customer service
- 31: Regular bug fixes and improvements
May 2021
- 17: Upgrade the PDF to clarify and direct focus to the important data
- 17: Make the load calculation page more mobile-friendly
- 17: Add buttons to previous loads to let the user download old reports without recreating loads
- 17: Add text-message reset password mechanism
- 17: Regular bug fixes and improvements
April 2021
- 5: Improve registration flow to reduce potential errors
- 5: Improve initial data to make defaults more accurate
- 3: Add ability to email report directly from the Load Calculator
- 3: Simplify language to more accurately reflect
- 3: Significant PDF report simplifications to make results clearer
- 3: Introduce new, more accurate formula to calculate the effect that the slab r-value has on the load
- 3: Regular bug fixes and improvements
March 2021
- 22: Simplify reactivation process for users whose accounts have expired
- 22: Keep better track of Canadian postal codes to make data entry easier for Canadian users
- 22: Track when users change the square footage of a house in the Load Calculator
- 22: Update Floor over Unconditioned Basement and Duct Adjustment default values to 5.0 and 10% respectively
- 22: Load Calculator screen and PDF styling improvements
- 22: Log when our property data vendors don't return any data
- 22: Split this upgrades page into two pages, one for Auditor and one for Load Calculator
- 22: Give affiliation admins more control over how they search for users and the loads they're running
- 12: Give some affiliated users a one-time login link so they can set their own passwords
- 9: Switch to brand new data providers for property data for increased accuracy and reliability
- 2: Allow users to kick out other devices on their account without resetting their password
- 2: Permanently resolve the unfound zip code bug by using the nearest numerical zip code
February 2021
- 17: Use "Proposal" instead of "Audit" and standardize language through the site
- 8: Add more live calculated data to the data input screen
- 8: Ignore extra spaces in login emails so the device adding an extra space doesn't restrict login
- 8: Refine PDF content
- 8: Add more help tooltips to improve user experience
- 8: Better tracking so tech support can assist users painlessly
- 8: Calculation improvements
- 5: Allow new affiliated users to select their affiliation representative on registration
- 3: Regular minor updates and bug fixes
- 3: Ability to filter saved loads
- 3: Open the tool up to Canadian users
January 2021
- 28: Introduce the homeowner report, a load calculator report designed specifically for selling to customers
- 28: Give our affiliates the ability to manage pending users under their supervision
- 28: Create a friendlier and more welcoming welcome email
- 28: Smooth out and optimize the registration process
September 2020
- 9: Make registration easier
August 2020
- 25: Standardized defaults in Load Calculator and Auditor
- 25: Send administrators of affiliations emails when someone signs up under them
- 25: Ability to pick up where you previously left off in registration
- 25: Make registration smoother for our new affiliated users
- 25: Add easy reporting and exporting about the loads and audits run by users
June 2020
- 24: Settled on a simple, friendly, welcoming, signup email
- 24: Fix mild inconsistencies with Auditor cost calculations
- 12: Added capability to handle negative average outside winter temps
- 6: Remove extra page in login/registration workflow from eds.tech
- 6: Add consumer alerts to remind users about the meaning of AED graphs
- 5: Created button to make starting new loads easier
- 5: Allow TEC users to register themselves
- 5: New landing page for HVAC 2.0
- 5: New landing pages for all of our other partners
- 5: Revised login, registration, forgot password, and heartbeat systems
- 5: Allow multiple registration in one page
May 2020
- 6: Critical bug fixes
- 6: Added several new zip codes to database
April 2020
- 21: Make more room in the Load Calculator to increase usability
- 20: Begun implementing a Stripe webhook that automatically updates customers’ payment statuses and the programs they have access to
- 20: Assign affiliated users to their respective programs
March 2020
- 18: Critical bug fixes
February 2020
- 6: Begun separating programs so customers get what they pay for
- 5: Critical bug fixes
January 2020
- 24: Load Calculator inputs divided into more understandable sections
- 10: Made field labels clearer
- 10: Revised position of graphs in Load Calculator for easy access
- 2: Solidify heartbeat system, allowing one user at a time