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Course Content
Integrating Daylight and Electric Lighting Systems
Daylight only saves energy when the electric lighting is designed to respond to it.
How to design daylight and electric lighting as one system in Australian homes and commercial buildings. Bring daylight in without glare or heat gain, choose sensors and controls that cut lighting energy without frustrating occupants, model lighting scenarios as evidence for NCC compliance, and layer ambient, task and accent light for visual comfort.
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4 modules with a real-world example, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
Why daylight and electric light have to be designed together, and what NCC 2022 expects of lighting energy and amenity.
Integrating Daylighting with Electric Lighting Design
Use orientation, solar access and surface reflectance to bring daylight in, and keep light even as the sky changes, without glare or overheating.
Sensors and Control Systems for Energy Savings
Choose daylight dimming, occupancy and vacancy sensors, and time and zone controls, and document them for Deemed-to-Satisfy or a Performance Solution.
Modelling Lighting Scenarios in Residential and Commercial Projects
Model houses, apartments and offices, link the results to thermal and NatHERS modelling, and present them as evidence a certifier will accept.
Designing for Visual Comfort Using Layered Light
Layer ambient, task and accent light, and control glare from windows and skylights with shading and screening.
Summary and Key Takeaways
The design decisions and early coordination that make lighting efficient, comfortable and compliant.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten questions on daylight, controls, modelling and visual comfort. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Intermediate. For people who already design or document lighting in residential and commercial buildings. Covers daylight integration, lighting controls, lighting modelling as compliance evidence and layered lighting, taught to NCC 2022 and NatHERS. It does not teach a particular modelling program or detailed lighting calculations.
Written for the people who decide where the light comes from.
Architects
You set the form, orientation and glazing that decide how much daylight the building gets.
Building designers
You document homes where window size, glare and lighting energy all land on the same drawings.
Lighting designers
Your scheme has to work with the daylight the architecture lets in, and still make its energy case.
Energy assessors
Daylight and lighting choices change the loads you model, and you need to see how they connect.
Engineers
You design the controls and services that turn daylight into measurable energy savings.
Where this hour goes on your record.
National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA 2021) performance criteria this course aligns with:
Site, cultural and contextual analysis
Building science applied to design performance
Energy and environmental impacts over the lifecycle
Integrating lighting, thermal and other environmental systems
Performance standards for materials, fittings and systems
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| An architect | 1 formal CPD point. Aligned with NSCA 2021 performance criteria PC26, PC28, PC31, PC33 and PC45. |
| A building designer | 1 CPD point. Your certificate, the learning outcomes, the module outline and your quiz result are kept in your dashboard, so you can show what you studied if your CPD is audited. |
| A lighting designer, energy assessor or engineer | 1 hour of CPD on integrated daylight and lighting design under NCC 2022, recorded on your certificate for your professional body or state scheme. |
CPD On Demand is not a registered training organisation and courses are not accredited by any registration body. Each course is aligned with the relevant competency frameworks and gives you the records to evidence it. CPD rules differ by registration body and state, so check with yours if you are unsure.
Pairs well with.
Lighting for Heritage and Restoration Projects
Lighting where the building itself must be protected: colour temperature, fittings and fabric.
NCC 2025 for Architects: Commercial and Apartment Buildings
What changes for commercial and apartment projects when your next job moves to NCC 2025.
Designing for Net-Zero Embodied Carbon: Practical Strategies
The other side of carbon: the materials, once operational lighting energy is down.
Before you enrol.
Design daylight and electric light as one system that saves energy and stays comfortable, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.