What’s the Simplest Compliant Way to Meet the Energy Requirements for This House?
$99.00 GST
The assessment comes back short, and the first fix offered is more ceiling insulation. If the house failed on cooling, that money goes on the wrong number. Most of the cost of energy compliance is decided in the first week of design, long before anything is specified.
This one hour residential energy compliance CPD course is for building designers, residential drafters, practice principals, project home designers and new home sales designers. Four short modules, two case studies and a ten question quiz, with your certificate saved to your dashboard.
Description
By the end of this course, you will be able to explain the two energy Performance Requirements for a house and what each one measures, compare the rating and elemental routes and select the cheaper one for a given house, apply the design moves that reach compliance with the least cost and redesign, and manage the assessment and the documents so the rating holds through construction. The organising idea is that compliance is cheap when it is early and expensive when it is late. The course starts with what the code actually requires: thermal performance, measured as heating and cooling loads rather than a star number, and the whole of home annual energy budget, which counts the equipment and the on-site generation. It explains why the edition in force is a jurisdiction question, and that NCC 2025 did not tighten the residential provisions. It then compares the rating route and the elemental route, the provisions that apply on either route, and when a Performance Solution earns its cost. The third module sets out the design moves in the order that costs least: orientation, plan depth and zoning, glazing area and distribution, shading that works in the month that matters, insulation continuity and sealing, and the equipment and generation levers of the whole of home budget. The last module covers briefing the assessor properly, reading the certificate as a schedule of obligations, routing substitutions back to the assessor, documenting sealing and services, and handling changes after approval. Two case studies and ten practice scenarios close it out.
This CPD provides general guidance on residential energy compliance and design process. It does not replace an accredited energy assessor, a building surveyor or certifier, or the requirements of the edition and state or territory variation in force for your project.
