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AI and Computational Design in Architecture
AI can test a hundred design options by lunch, but your name still goes on the one you sign.
A practical guide to using AI and computational design in Australian practice. Tell the tools apart, set up generative design to explore concept massing against real site and planning constraints, test thermal, daylight and energy performance while the design can still change, and use the results as evidence for NCC performance-based compliance. Transparency, data governance and professional accountability stay where they belong: with you.
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4 modules with worked case studies, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
Why AI and computational design now matter in Australian practice, and how they connect to the NCC’s performance-based structure.
AI and Computational Design Fundamentals for Built Environment Professionals
Tell AI from computational design, place rule-based, parametric and machine learning tools in your workflow, and link them to NCC Performance Requirements.
Generative Design for Concept Exploration
Turn site, planning and environmental constraints into parameters, generate massing options and weigh solar access, overshadowing and buildability.
AI-Driven Simulation and Design Efficiency Evaluation
Test thermal, daylight and energy performance early, and use the outputs to inform NatHERS, whole-of-home and Section J strategies and Performance Solutions.
Ethics, Governance, and Professional Responsibility in AI-Enabled Design
Keep algorithms and assumptions transparent, check data for bias, own every AI output you sign and settle who owns the models.
Key takeaways
How AI supports your judgement rather than replacing it, and the first practical steps into a compliant workflow.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten questions on tools, generative design, simulation and professional responsibility. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Advanced. For architects, designers and engineers who already work with digital design tools and want to use AI and computational methods with rigour. Covers tool types, generative design, AI-assisted performance simulation, and governance and accountability. It teaches methods, not a software platform, and it does not replace a NatHERS assessment or any NCC verification method.
Written for the people who sign off on what the software suggests.
Architects
Your team already uses parametric tools, and you need to know which AI outputs you can stand behind.
Building designers
You want to test more concept options early without losing control of the design or its compliance.
Sustainability / energy modellers (NatHERS-aligned)
Options often reach you late; early simulation lets you shape the envelope before it is fixed.
Building services / building performance engineers
You run the simulations, and everyone who relies on them needs the assumptions, inputs and limits made clear.
Building surveyors / certifiers
You assess Performance Solutions that increasingly rest on modelling you did not run.
Where this hour goes on your record.
National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA 2021) performance criteria this course aligns with:
Budget and timeframe against codes and planning
Building science to optimise the concept
Sustainability information across the lifecycle
Integrating thermal, lighting and other systems
Performance standards and whole life carbon
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| An architect | 1 formal CPD point in design technology and building performance. Aligned with NSCA 2021 performance criteria PC20, PC28, PC31, PC33 and PC45. |
| A building designer | 1 CPD point in design practice and technology. 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. |
| An energy modeller, performance engineer, surveyor or certifier | 1 hour of CPD on AI-assisted design, simulation and compliance evidence, recorded on your certificate for your professional body or your own records. |
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.
Designing for Net-Zero Embodied Carbon: Practical Strategies
Simulation shows how a design performs; this is the carbon it costs to build.
Integrating Daylight and Electric Lighting Systems
The daylight modelling from Module 3, carried through to the lighting design.
Ethics for Architects in Practice
The accountability in Module 4, applied to every document and certificate you sign.
Before you enrol.
Use AI to test more options earlier and still stand behind every result you sign, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.