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AI & Machine Learning in Building Performance Optimisation
AI is already in the energy model. Can you defend its output when your name is on the report?
Where AI and machine learning genuinely add value to building performance work, and where the risk sits. How AI-driven simulation, digital twins and predictive maintenance fit NatHERS, NABERS and the NCC verification pathways, the data governance and cybersecurity duties they bring, and a framework to select, validate and document AI tools in your advice.
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4 modules, 2 case studies, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
Why AI integration is now a professional capability question for anyone who signs off performance advice.
AI and Machine Learning Fundamentals for Building Performance
Know what AI and machine learning actually do in buildings, the main model types, and how sensor data feeds simulation and forecasting.
Compliance Frameworks, Digital Twins, and Predictive Systems
Place digital twins and predictive maintenance within NatHERS, NABERS and the NCC, and know what evidence an AI-assisted assessment needs.
Implementation Challenges, Data Governance, and Risk
Manage data quality, ownership and bias, cybersecurity duties, procurement, and the failure modes when AI gets it wrong.
Practice Application, Documentation, and Future Readiness
Apply a decision framework to choose AI tools, bring their outputs into reports, and document your method so it stands up to review.
An office precinct and a net-zero development
An AI-optimised commercial office precinct in Melbourne, and machine learning in a net-zero residential development.
Key takeaways
The four objectives drawn into one practice framework for your next assessment.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten questions on AI methods, compliance, risk and documentation. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Advanced. Assumes a strong working knowledge of NatHERS, NABERS, energy modelling and performance-based compliance. Covers AI and machine learning methods, digital twins, predictive maintenance, data governance, cybersecurity and how to document AI-assisted advice. It teaches you to evaluate and use AI tools, not to program them, and it is not legal advice.
Written for the people who sign off building performance advice.
Sustainability Consultants
You put your name on performance advice, and AI tools are starting to shape what goes into it.
Building Designers
You test design options with early modelling and need to know when an AI shortcut can be trusted.
Energy Assessors
You model energy performance and get asked whether predictive tools can speed up the work.
NatHERS Assessors
The rating still comes from the NatHERS software, and you need to know where AI optimisation fits before it.
Building Surveyors
You assess compliance evidence and will see AI-assisted modelling in Performance Solution reports.
Where this hour goes on your record.
National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA 2021) performance criteria this course aligns with:
Whole life carbon of materials and systems
Advice to building codes and standards
Building and environmental science in design
Energy, water and carbon over the lifecycle
Integrating sustainable environmental systems
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| A building designer | 1 CPD point in building performance and sustainable design. 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 architect | 1 formal CPD point. Aligned with NSCA 2021 performance criteria PC10, PC12, PC28, PC31 and PC33. |
| A sustainability consultant, energy or NatHERS assessor, or building surveyor | 1 hour of CPD on AI in building performance, 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.
Getting NatHERS Right Before It Goes to the Assessor
The inputs every energy model depends on, AI-assisted or not.
The 5 Whole-of-Home Assumptions That Are Most Likely to Fail (and Cost You Time or Rework)
The assumptions a fast model can hide, and what they cost at re-rating.
Designing for Net-Positive Buildings
Put optimised performance to work: buildings that export a surplus.
Before you enrol.
Use AI where it adds value, and document it so your advice stands up, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.