Course Content
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This course equips building designers with the knowledge and practical skills needed to design, document, and defend all-electric Class 1a homes under current Australian regulatory frameworks. Participants will learn how NCC whole-of-home requirements, NatHERS assessments, and state-based gas connection policies influence residential design decisions. The course explores the specification and integration of key all-electric systems, including heat-pump hot water, induction cooking, reverse-cycle heating and cooling, and solar PV with future battery and EV provisions. It also examines common documentation, coordination, and compliance issues that can lead to certification delays or project redesigns. Through practical workflows, case studies, and client communication strategies, designers will gain confidence in delivering compliant, future-ready all-electric homes.
This CPD provides general guidance on professional responsibilities and documentation practices. It does not constitute legal advice or replace project-specific contractual or statutory obligations.
This session is designed for
Building Designers
Architects
NatHERS Energy Assessors
Licensed Builders
Building Surveyors
By the end of this course, you will understand the regulatory requirements, compliance pathways, and design principles that underpin all-electric Class 1a homes. You will be able to confidently specify and document all-electric systems, avoid common compliance and coordination pitfalls, and guide clients through informed decisions that support high-performing, future-ready residential projects. You will also learn how to coordinate effectively with energy assessors, electricians, and certifiers while maintaining clear professional boundaries. In addition, you will develop practical workflows and client communication strategies that help protect all-electric specifications from redesign, substitution, and compliance risks throughout the project lifecycle.
This ensures that CPD efforts align with professional regulatory requirements.
What’s Included
This course examines the practical challenges building designers face as all-electric residential construction becomes the norm across Australia. It covers the regulatory and policy landscape driving gas out of new homes, including how the NCC whole-of-home energy and emissions budget works and how state-by-state gas connection rules vary. The course then moves through the four core electric systems a Class 1a dwelling requires, namely heat-pump hot water, induction cooking, reverse-cycle heating and cooling, and solar with battery and EV provisioning, and how to specify and place them within the compliance pathway. It addresses the documentation and coordination failures most likely to draw certifier questions, from switchboard capacity to hot-water unit siting to the risks of removing gas late in the design process. Finally, it develops a repeatable workflow for embedding all-electric decisions into the drawing set and specification, alongside a client-facing case for upfront cost, running costs, and comfort that protects the specification from value-engineering pressure.
Why Take This CPD Session?
Understand why all-electric design is now landing on your projects and what actually binds each job, so you can read any residential project’s compliance baseline with confidence before you document anything.
Learn to specify and place the four core all-electric systems within the NatHERS and whole-of-home pathway, and avoid the documentation and coordination failures that draw certifier RFIs and force costly redesigns.
Develop a repeatable all-electric documentation workflow and a client conversation that holds your specification together from concept to handover, even under value-engineering pressure.
Professional development is an investment in career growth and regulatory compliance. Take the next step today.