3. Set up your property & submit your property to the Madison BESP

To set up your property in the Building Owner Portal, you must first have completed the steps in Part 1 of this guide (Collect your property data with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager (ESPM). 

STEP 1 - After logging in to the Building Owner Portal (https://bop.opentech.eco), and having already claimed your property, click on '‘Property List’ in the top navigation bar. (Please read this article for how to claim a property) Select one of your claimed properties on the left sidebar, and click on the ‘Get Started’ button.

STEP 2 - Confirm that you have shared your property on ESPM with the City of Madison.If not, follow the instructions and links in the Building Owner Portal to share access to your properties.  For help, review the article "Share your properties with the City of Madison"

STEP 3 - Confirm that your property in ESPM contains the Madison Building ID (in the ESPM Standard ID section). For help, review the article "Add & Set up your property - Step 4"

If you have shared the property on ESPM with full access rights, you will be able to apply the Madison ID to your ESPM property from the Building Owner Portal. Click the checkbox "I agree to BOP automatically setting this property's Madison, WI Building ID in ESPM" and then click 'Complete Setup'. 

If you have already added your Madison Building ID to your property in ESPM, the message below will appear. Click 'Complete Setup' to move to the next step.

STEP 4 - Click ‘Submit’ to submit your property to the Madison BESP. This will launch the Data Quality Checker to check that your property data is complete before you can finish the submission process.  

The Data Quality Checker may take up to 20 seconds to check your property data for errors.

If errors are detected, you will receive an error message. Go to ESPM and correct the data errors, before clicking 'Check Again'. You will not be able to submit your building's benchmarking data to the Madison BESP without completing this step.  

Once your property has passed the Data Quality Checker, your submission status will change to 'In Review'.  

Your submission will be reviewed and the status of your benchmarking submission will be updated, typically within 3 to 5 business days.  

For more information and to contact the Help Desk, Submit a Ticket for 'Help using the Building Owner Portal'.