Pick up where you left off.
Course Content
The Simplest Compliant Energy Path
Most energy compliance cost is decided in the first week of design, not at the assessment.
Choosing a pathway, spending your effort where it counts, and documenting it once. How to tell which of the two energy requirements a house is failing, when the elemental route saves a fee and when the model earns it, the free design moves that reach compliance before anything is specified, and how to keep the rating true from approval to handover.
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4 modules, 2 case studies, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
Why compliance is cheap when it is early and expensive when it is late, and the four things you will be able to do on your next house.
What the Code Actually Requires
Separate thermal performance from the whole of home budget, read the three load figures behind the star, and confirm the edition in force.
The Two Routes, and Choosing Between Them
Compare the rating and elemental routes, the provisions that apply on both, and when a Performance Solution earns its cost.
Designing So the Number Falls Out
Orientation, plan depth, glazing, shading, insulation continuity and the equipment levers, in the order that costs least.
Documenting It Once
Brief the assessor, read the certificate as obligations, route substitutions and handle changes after approval.
Insulation instead of shading, and the window swap
A cooling failure treated with insulation, and a visually identical window that broke the rating at frame stage.
Key takeaways
Six habits to carry into the next house you document.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten practice scenarios. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Intermediate. For designers who document Class 1 houses. Covers the two energy Performance Requirements, the rating and elemental routes, cost-effective design moves and keeping the rating through construction. It is technical education, not a substitute for an accredited energy assessor or your certifier, and names no product or supplier.
Written for the people whose drawings carry the energy rating.
Building Designer
You choose the route, brief the assessor and carry the rating through to handover.
Residential Drafter
You draw the eaves, the glazing schedule and the sealing details the certificate depends on.
Practice Principal
You carry the redesign cost when an assessment comes back short late in the job.
Project Home Designer
Your standard plans face every orientation, so the free moves matter on every lot.
New Home Sales Designer
Clients ask whether the new code made their house harder, and the honest answer is no.
Where this hour goes on your record.
National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA 2021) performance criteria this course aligns with:
Building codes, standards and planning advice
Building science in conceptual design
Environmental sustainability across the lifecycle
Compliant project documentation
Defects, rectifications and substitutions
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| A building designer | 1 formal CPD point. 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, PC28, PC31, PC46 and PC56. |
| A drafter, project home or sales designer | 1 hour of CPD on residential energy compliance, recorded on your certificate for your registration body or 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.
Getting NatHERS Right Before It Goes to the Assessor
The brief and the drawings that make the assessment fast and accurate.
Beyond 7 Stars: Passive Design Tactics That Actually Work in NatHERS
The passive design moves in depth, climate by climate.
Whole-of-Home Compliance: What Building Designers Are Actually Responsible For
The energy budget and the equipment decisions that sit with you.
Before you enrol.
Reach compliance with the least cost and redesign, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.