Services
Every pathway. One standard.
From planning reports to star ratings, Performance Solutions, commercial Section J and the building physics behind them, every service is delivered in-house, to the same standard.
Homes · NCC Volume Two
Class 1 buildingsPathway Check
Which route is likely to cost least for your design, including when the answer is NatHERS. No fee.
Start hereNatHERS ratings
Star ratings for new homes, most within one business day, and for existing homes, from Australia’s largest team of in-house NatHERS accredited assessors.
Deemed-to-SatisfyWhole of Home ratings
The NatHERS rating for the NCC’s energy-usage requirement: the home’s main appliances and any solar, rated together.
H6P2Performance Solutions
Your design tested against the Code’s own reference house under H6V2, with the brief agreed with your surveyor before modelling.
H6V2Wall System Check
Switching from double brick? Your design rated in brick or AAC veneer and framed construction, timber and steel, before you commit.
NewLife cycle assessment
The embodied carbon of a home design, measured to EN 15978 while it can still change. In NSW, BASIX already asks new homes to report it, and we prepare that reporting.
LCADesign advisory
The energy pathway chosen at concept stage, so it shapes the design rather than undoing it.
Concept stage
Commercial · NCC Volume One
Section J, every methodDeemed-to-Satisfy reports
Every Section J provision checked and documented, from building fabric and glazing to air-conditioning, lighting and hot water.
DTSFaçade calculations
Wall and glazing performance calculated façade by façade.
FaçadeJ1V3 modelling
Verification using a reference building (formerly JV3), for when the Deemed-to-Satisfy limits bite.
J1V3Verification Methods and Performance Solutions
The NABERS and Green Star routes (J1V1, J1V2), J1V5 for apartments, and Performance Solutions where no standard route suits.
VerificationLife cycle assessment
Life cycle assessments to EN 15978, NABERS Embodied Carbon ratings, Green Star’s upfront carbon credit and NSW’s reporting for non-residential developments.
LCA
Modular and prefab · built off site
Homes and commercialModular and prefabricated buildings
Homes and commercial buildings built off site: one design, tested for every orientation, climate zone and state it will meet, then made compliant for each site.
Off siteLife cycle assessment
One assessment of the module design, to EN 15978, covers the whole range: its embodied carbon, and where the materials can cut it.
LCA
Planning · before the building permit
Planning applicationsGreen Star assessments
Green Star pathways and assessments, from Green Star Accredited Professionals on our staff, for projects that commit to a rating or are required to achieve one.
Green StarESD, SDA and SDAR reports
Environmentally sustainable design reports, and Sustainable Design Assessment Reports for councils and redevelopment authorities.
ESDLife cycle assessment and embodied carbon
Whole-building life cycle assessments to EN 15978, and the embodied carbon reporting BASIX, NABERS and Green Star ask for.
LCABESS, daylight and other reports
BESS assessments, daylight studies, and the other energy and sustainability reports a planning authority asks for, scoped to its policy.
Planning
Building physics · beyond compliance
Homes and commercialDynamic thermal simulation
Hourly simulation in engines that meet ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 140, for design decisions as much as compliance.
SimulationThermal bridging
Two-dimensional heat-flow modelling of frames and junctions.
FramingGlazing and shading design
Fixed and operable shading modelled in detail, with every assumption in writing.
EnvelopeSummer comfort, air-con off
How hot the house runs without heating and cooling, and for how long.
ComfortFuture-climate performance
The design re-run against projected climates, to show how it will age.
ClimateInsulation and substitution checks
Insulation checked as installed, and product substitutions re-checked against the model.
On siteIndependent model review
A second modeller checks every model we issue, and we review models prepared by others.
Review
Industry · research and development
For manufacturersResearch and development
How a product or system performs inside a real building, and how that performance is demonstrated under the Code.
R&DIndustry briefings
Briefings for a manufacturer’s network of builders, designers and specifiers on the NCC’s energy pathways.
Education
Surveyors · and certifiers
Private and local governmentSubmissions you can say yes to
What every Thermarate submission contains, our written method, briefings for your practice, and review of models prepared by others.
For surveyors
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