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Whole-of-Home Compliance: What Building Designers Are Actually Responsible For
The assessor models what you drew, so when a Whole-of-Home rating fails, whose problem is it?
Where the building designer’s responsibility starts and stops under NCC 2022 Whole-of-Home, and what the assessor actually controls. Where the two overlap, the assumptions that do not protect you, from the assessor will catch it to we followed precedent, and the documentation, communication and timing habits that keep responsibility where it belongs.
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6 modules, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
How Whole-of-Home changed risk, accountability and documentation for building designers, and why role clarity now matters.
Why Responsibility Feels Unclear
See why designers feel exposed and assessors ask more questions, when NCC 2022 shifted accountability without redrawing the roles.
What Designers Actually Control
Know which design decisions, documentation assumptions and sequencing choices set the Whole-of-Home result before the assessor starts.
What Assessors Actually Control
Understand what the assessor is responsible for, why they cannot just fix it, and why their requests come back as revisions.
Where Responsibility Overlaps
Spot the shared assumptions, interpretation gaps and coordination gaps where responsibility blurs between design and assessment.
The Assumptions That Don’t Protect Designers
Test the assessor will catch it, that is construction and we followed precedent, and see why liability follows documented intent.
Practising with Clearer Boundaries
Adopt habits that cut exposure: record assumptions and provisional items, flag critical decisions early and reissue changes formally.
Key takeaways, final quiz and certificate
Where the boundaries sit and how to document them, then ten questions. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Intermediate. For building designers and documenters who already prepare houses for a Whole-of-Home assessment. Covers designer and assessor responsibilities, where they overlap, the assumptions that leave designers exposed and the habits that reduce it. It teaches no modelling, and it is general guidance on professional responsibilities, not legal advice.
Written for everyone on either side of the design and assessment line.
Building designers
Your drawings set the inputs, and when the rating fails you need to know which part of it is yours to fix.
Architects
You lead the design team and carry the decisions the assessor can only model, never change.
Energy assessors
You can only assess what is documented, and you need designers to know why you send revisions, not fixes.
Thermal performance assessors
Gaps in the drawings become defaults in your model, and the argument about who owns them lands with you.
Documenters
What you show or leave off the set becomes an assessment input, and the record of who decided what.
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 requirements
Energy and sustainability over the project lifecycle
Integrating thermal and environmental systems
Performance standards for materials and systems
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| A building designer | 1 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 PC10, PC20, PC31, PC33 and PC45. |
| An energy or thermal performance assessor, or a documenter | 1 hour of CPD on Whole-of-Home roles and documentation, recorded on your certificate for your accrediting organisation 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.
The 5 Whole-of-Home Assumptions That Are Most Likely to Fail
The assumptions that send a rating back, including that the assessor owns the outcome.
When a Design Change Triggers a Whole-of-Home Re-Rating
Your decisions after the rating: which changes reopen it, and when.
Getting NatHERS Right Before It Goes to the Assessor
The design and documentation that hand the assessor a clean job.
Before you enrol.
Know what is yours under Whole-of-Home, and document it so it stays that way, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.