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Home Energy Rating Disclosure: What Assessors Need to Prepare For
Your rating was written for an approval. Now a buyer, tenant or lender is relying on it.
What the national Home Energy Rating Disclosure Framework means for the certificates you issue. How ratings are already used in sales, leases and lending, where that leaves you exposed, and the scope limitation statements, currency statements and file retention that protect you, with the ACT mandatory scheme, the NSW pilot and the path to a national framework set out.
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4 modules, 2 case studies, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
Why your certificate is turning into a transactional document, and what you will be able to do by the end.
The Disclosure Framework: Policy Intent, Scope, and Timeline
What the national framework covers, which houses and apartments fall within it, and which milestones are confirmed and which are only expected.
The Assessor’s Expanding Role: Certificates in Transactions
See how sales, leases and lenders already rely on your rating, and where that reliance puts professional liability on you.
Documentation Standards That Protect the Assessor
Write scope limitation and currency statements that hold up, and keep the file that answers a complaint years later.
The Jurisdictional Landscape: From ACT to National Rollout
How the ACT mandatory scheme works, where the NSW pilot stands, and how far each other state and territory has moved toward disclosure.
A sale and a tenancy dispute
A three year old design stage certificate relied on at sale, and a sound rating undone by a renovation the assessor never saw.
Key takeaways
What to change on your next certificate before anyone else relies on it.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten questions on the framework, certificate reliance, documentation and the jurisdictions. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Intermediate. For accredited assessors who already issue energy rating certificates, and the designers, surveyors and builders whose work those certificates describe. Covers the disclosure framework, how certificates are relied on in sales, leases and lending, the documentation that limits your exposure, and the position in the ACT, New South Wales and the other jurisdictions when the course was written. It is professional practice education, not legal advice, and it does not teach the rating method.
Written for the people whose ratings end up in someone else’s transaction.
Energy assessors
Your certificate is starting to turn up in sale contracts, leases and loan files you never saw.
Architects
The rating on your design can follow the house into every sale, long after the drawings changed.
Building designers
You commission the rating, and a buyer may later read it as a promise about the finished house.
Building surveyors
You approve against a design stage certificate that a buyer may later read as a statement of how the house performs.
Builders
A substitution on site that never reaches the assessor leaves a rating that no longer matches the house.
Where this hour goes on your record.
National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA 2021) performance criteria this course aligns with:
Regulatory and professional obligations
Advice in line with codes and standards
Risk management and appropriate insurances
Record keeping and document control
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| An energy assessor | 1 hour of technical CPD on professional practice, documentation and the use of energy rating certificates. Your certificate, the learning outcomes, the module outline and your quiz result are kept in your dashboard for your accrediting organisation’s records. |
| An architect | 1 formal CPD point. Aligned with NSCA 2021 performance criteria PC1, PC12, PC16 and PC55. |
| A building designer, surveyor or builder | 1 hour of CPD on energy rating disclosure and certificate reliance, 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.
NatHERS for Existing Homes: What Every New Homes Assessor Needs to Know
Rating the existing houses a disclosure scheme will ask you to assess.
What to Expect From a NatHERS Audit
The file an auditor asks for is the same file that defends a disclosed rating.
When the Spec Doesn’t Say Enough
Recording the assumptions behind a rating so the certificate says what it relied on.
Before you enrol.
Issue certificates that say what they cover, and when, before a buyer or tenant relies on them.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.