Part 5 of the Building Regulations 2018

Part 5 of the Building Regulations 2018 — Siting

Working at your own pace, the course will deliver the knowledge to be able to check building plans to determine compliance with Part 5. To pass the course you will provided with test plans to asses and undertake a quiz.

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$999.00

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Course curriculum

1
- Course Overview and Outcomes
- Course Outcome
2
- Application
- What is an existing building?
- What is a single dwelling?
- Approved building envelope design overrides siting requirement
- End of Chapter Quiz
3
- Application of Division
- Maximum street setback
- Minimum street setbacks
- Building height
- Site coverage
- Permeability
- Car parking
- Side and rear setbacks
- Walls and carports on boundaries
- Daylight to existing habitable room windows
- Solar access to existing north-facing habitable room windows
- Overshadowing of recreational private open space
- Overlooking
- Daylight to habitable room windows
- Private open space
- End of Chapter Quiz
4
- Siting of Class 10a buildings
5
- Application of Division
- Front fence height
- Fence setbacks from side and rear boundaries
- Fences on or within 150 mm of side or rear boundaries
- Fences on intersecting street alignments
- Fences must not include barbed wire
- Fences and daylight to habitable room windows in existing dwelling
- Fences and solar access to existing north-facing habitable room windows
- Fences and overshadowing of recreational private open space
- Masts, poles etc.
6
- Assess of Plans - Examination and Quiz

Reviews

Reviews on the course from students

Well worth the money

Mohammed (Moe) A

So fair i have done two courses, this course can get complex but the information was well simplified to explain information by real life examples so it wasn'...

So fair i have done two courses, this course can get complex but the information was well simplified to explain information by real life examples so it wasn't an issue to understand. The quizzes at each chapter and final set of plans helped heaps.

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Highly detailed & explained thoroughly

Nicholas Panagiotis

I was struggling to understand siting but after doing the course I feel confident to check siting on plans now. Checking a set of plans at my own pace and th...

I was struggling to understand siting but after doing the course I feel confident to check siting on plans now. Checking a set of plans at my own pace and then taking the quiz helped out a lot as it explained the all the answers and if I chose any wrong answers it would explain why it was the wrong answer.

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Didn't realise how important Part 5 was until doing this ...

Song Ch'ang

After doing this course I realise how important siting is. The examples with the quizzes helped a lot to understanding each regulation. It is one thing to re...

After doing this course I realise how important siting is. The examples with the quizzes helped a lot to understanding each regulation. It is one thing to read the regulation but to use it on plans with a quiz helps a lot

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