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Designing All-Electric Class 1a Homes
Gas is leaving new homes. Is your drawing set ready for the heat pump, the switchboard and the certifier?
Systems, documentation and the client conversation for Class 1a homes. How the whole-of-home budget and state gas-connection rules shape the brief, how to specify heat-pump hot water, induction cooking, reverse-cycle heating and cooling and solar with battery and EV provisioning, where all-electric designs get flagged, and how to defend the specification against value engineering.
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4 modules, 2 case studies, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
Who the course is for, and what you will be able to do on your next all-electric job.
Why All-Electric, and What Actually Binds You
Read how the whole-of-home energy and emissions budget and state gas-connection rules set your project’s real compliance baseline.
Specifying the All-Electric Systems
Specify heat-pump hot water, induction cooking, reverse-cycle heating and cooling, and solar with battery and EV provisioning.
Where All-Electric Design Gets Flagged
Design out the switchboard, hot-water siting, late gas removal and documentation gaps that draw certifier RFIs.
Documentation Workflow and the Client Conversation
Embed every all-electric decision in the drawings and specification, and make the cost and comfort case that protects it.
A sloping block and a late gas removal
An all-electric new build on a sloping Melbourne block, and a whole-of-home re-rating salvaged after gas came out late.
Key takeaways
The habits that carry an all-electric home from concept to handover.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten questions on all-electric systems, compliance, coordination and documentation. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Intermediate. For building designers documenting Class 1a homes under NCC Volume Two, with no sustainability or electrical specialism assumed. Covers whole-of-home and gas-connection rules, all-electric system selection, coordination, documentation and the client conversation. Switchboard and electrical capacity are covered as coordination; electrical design stays with the electrician.
Written for the people who put an all-electric home on paper and see it built.
Building Designers
You document Class 1a homes, and the switch to all-electric lands on your drawing set first.
Architects
Your residential clients want homes without gas, and the specification has to survive to handover.
NatHERS Energy Assessors
You rate the design, and a late change from gas to electric can reopen the whole-of-home result.
Licensed Builders
You install to the drawings and face the value-engineering pressure that swaps systems out.
Building Surveyors
You assess all-electric documentation and raise the RFIs when capacity or siting is not shown.
Where this hour goes on your record.
National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA 2021) performance criteria this course aligns with:
Advice to building codes and standards
Budget and timeframe against codes and objectives
Energy, water and carbon over the lifecycle
Integrating sustainable environmental systems
Documentation that complies with codes
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| A building designer | 1 CPD point in residential energy and documentation. 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 PC12, PC20, PC31, PC33 and PC46. |
| A NatHERS energy assessor, licensed builder or building surveyor | 1 hour of CPD on all-electric Class 1a homes, recorded on your certificate for your registration 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.
When a Design Change Triggers a Whole-of-Home Re-Rating (And How to Avoid It)
What happens to the rating when gas comes out late, and how to avoid it.
Whole-of-Home Compliance: What Building Designers Are Actually Responsible For
Where the designer’s responsibility for the energy budget starts and stops.
Designing for Net-Positive Buildings
Take the all-electric home further: a surplus exported to the grid.
Before you enrol.
Specify, document and defend an all-electric home, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.