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Course Content
NCC 2025: What Is Changing, When It Applies to You
NCC 2025 is out, but whether it applies to your project depends on your state and your approval date.
And how to use your transition window. What NCC 2025 changes and why, the adoption date in each state and territory, how to tell which edition governs a project that straddles a changeover, the condensation rules that are the headline residential change, what carries over for energy and livable housing, and a plan to update your details before your state adopts.
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5 modules, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
Why a staggered rollout is the risk most worth getting right, and what the hour covers.
NCC 2025 in Context: What Changed and Why
The durability, resilience and safety themes behind the edition, and why the heaviest changes land in commercial work.
The Adoption Map: When NCC 2025 Applies to You
Tell which edition governs a project from its state and approval date, and manage designs that straddle a changeover.
Condensation Management: The Headline Residential Change
New climate zones, vapour permeance by zone, the mandatory cavity in cooler zones and roof ventilation set by insulation position.
Energy and Livable Housing: What Carries Over
Seven stars and livable housing continue, commercial energy moves, and a class-based check for which changes reach your job.
Beyond Residential, and How to Prepare Now
Water management, carpark fire and sanitary facilities, then a plan for your details, templates and consultant briefs.
Key takeaways
The map, the headline change and the plan, brought together.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten questions on the changes, the adoption map, condensation and what carries over. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Intermediate. For designers who already work with the NCC and need to know what the new edition changes and when. An orientation across NCC 2025, with condensation management in the most depth. It is not a technical deep dive into commercial energy, fire or water management, which have their own courses.
Written for everyone whose details, specifications and approvals change with the edition.
Architects
You work across states and need to know which edition each project will be assessed against.
Building designers
You carry documentation from concept to approval, and the edition decides what your details must show.
Building surveyors
You assess against the operative edition and see designs that assumed the wrong start date.
Licensed builders
You build what was approved, including the new wall cavity and membrane rules in cooler climates.
Energy assessors
You need to know what carries over for energy and where the new condensation rules meet your ratings.
Where this hour goes on your record.
National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA 2021) performance criteria this course aligns with:
Advice under building codes and standards
Risk management and mitigation
Budget and timeframe against codes and legislation
Environmental sustainability over the lifecycle
Materials and construction systems in documentation
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| A building designer | 1 CPD point on NCC 2025 changes, adoption and transition planning. 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, PC16, PC20, PC31 and PC39. |
| A building surveyor, builder or energy assessor | 1 hour of CPD on NCC 2025 and its adoption, 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.
The Breathable Wall: Understanding Condensation Risks in NCC 2025
The headline residential change, taken down to the wall and roof detail.
The Waterproofing Time Bomb: Defending High-Risk Balconies and Podiums
The new water management rules for balconies and podiums, set at the slab.
NCC 2025 for Queensland: What Changes on 1 May 2027
The same edition worked through for Queensland’s start on 1 May 2027.
Before you enrol.
Know when NCC 2025 reaches your projects and what to change first, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.