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Designing for Net-Positive Buildings
Net zero is the minimum now. Design the building that exports a surplus and still gets approved.
Net zero balances a building’s energy account. Net positive designs it to give a surplus back to the grid and the community. Size solar PV and batteries for surplus, integrate rainwater and greywater reuse, design for grid export and precinct microgrids, then take non-standard systems through the Performance Solution pathway and make the financial case with life cycle costing.
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4 modules with a multi-residential case study, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
What a net-positive building is, how it moves past net zero, and the policy context that makes it a live brief now.
Net-Zero vs Net-Positive Design
Use energy use intensity, operational and embodied energy and whole-of-life carbon to show where net zero stops and net positive begins.
Renewable Energy and Water Reuse Strategies
Size solar PV for surplus, plan battery space, and integrate rainwater and greywater reuse, tested on a multi-residential case study.
Designing for Surplus and Community Contribution
Design for load shifting and grid export, precinct microgrids, and shared systems such as EV charging and hot water loops.
Regulatory & Financial Frameworks
Take non-standard systems through the Performance Solution and evidence of suitability pathways, and back them with life cycle cost and return on investment.
Key takeaways
The benefits of net-positive design for you, your client and the community, and the next steps for your practice.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten questions on metrics, surplus design, water reuse and the approval pathway. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Intermediate. For architects and building designers who already work with NatHERS, Whole-of-Home and NCC compliance. Covers net-zero and net-positive metrics, solar PV, battery and water reuse design, grid export and precinct systems, and the Performance Solution and funding frameworks, taught to NCC 2022. It does not size systems for a particular site, and it is not financial advice.
Written for the people who decide what a building gives back.
Architects
Your clients ask for more than net zero, and you need to show how the building will give back.
Building Designers
You document the PV, battery and water reuse systems that make a surplus possible.
Energy Assessors
You model Whole-of-Home performance and get asked what it takes to push a design past zero.
Engineers
You size the energy and water systems that have to deliver the surplus the design promised.
Urban Planners
You plan precincts where shared microgrids, EV charging and water reuse serve many buildings.
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
Budget and timeframe against codes and objectives
Energy, water and carbon over the lifecycle
Integrating sustainable environmental systems
Materials and systems chosen for performance and carbon
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| A building designer | 1 CPD point in energy and sustainability. 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, PC20, PC31, PC33 and PC45. |
| An energy assessor, engineer or urban planner | 1 hour of CPD on net-positive design, 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 All-Electric Class 1a Homes
Take gas out of the house first: the all-electric services a surplus depends on.
Whole-of-Home Compliance: What Building Designers Are Actually Responsible For
Where your responsibility for the Whole-of-Home energy budget starts and stops.
Beyond 7 Stars: Passive Design Tactics That Actually Work in NatHERS
Cut the load with passive design before you size the PV to cover it.
Before you enrol.
Design buildings that give back more than they use, and get them approved, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.