NEERG Seminars Pty Limited
Level 4, 209 Oxford Street
Bondi Junction

PO Box 636
Bondi Junction NSW 1355
Australia

T (02) 9387 1899
F (02) 9387 8335
seminars@neerg.net.au

"We loved our Solar Access & Overshadowing Workshop. It was really beneficial.  My colleagues and I gained so much from it."

Michael Tully, Development & Certificaction Officer, Parramatta City Council

"The trainer was good.  (Steve King) kept the workshop relevant to what we do and gave good examples used in L&E Court cases.  The content got a bit complicated during the exercises.  However, the trainer was willing to look at each person's work individually and explain the process.

I liked the trainer a lot ...there was a lot to take in over the whole day, but it was all relevant.

The trainer is clearly passionate about solar access.  The content was good and clear.  I learnt a lot.

The course was great and so was the trainer.  Content was relevant and he explained it well."

From participants in the joint workshop for council officers from Pittwater, Ryde and Ku-ring-gai Councils held at Pittwater.

SOLAR ACCESS & OVERSHADOWING WORKSHOPS

Solar Access & Overshadowing: theory & practice with Steve King, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of the Built Environment, UNSW.  Maximum class size: 12.

Join a small group learning the theory and practice of Solar Access & Overshadowing assessment. The trainer, Steve King, is a registered architect and UNSW lecturer specialising in Sustainability. The workshop is suitable for council planners, architects and consulting planners refreshing their understanding of this highly technical aspect of DAs.  Recent workshops have been conducted in the NEERG training room as well as onsite for Botany Bay City Council, Bathurst Regional Council and Pittwater City Council (with participants from Ryde and Ku-ring-gai), Shoalhaven City Council and Housing NSW. Whether in the NEERG training room or at your workplace, the maximum number of participants is 12

1   Register now for the next open workshop in the NEERG training room

NEERG Seminars brings together council officers, consulting planners, architects and other professionals to learn how to deal with the complexities of solar access and overshadowing.

To find out more, call us on 9387 1899 or email NEERG Seminars.

2   Book an in-house training workshop for council planners.

NEERG Seminars organises in-house training workshops tailored to the professional requirements of council planners. To ensure each attendee receives personal attention, class size is limited to 12. Since 2005 council officers from Bankstown, Bathurst, Blacktown, Botany Bay, Canada Bay, Canterbury, City of Sydney, Hurstville, Kogarah, Ku-ring-gai, Lake Macquarie, Leichhardt, Liverpool, Marrickville, North Sydney, Parramatta, Pittwater, Randwick, Ryde, Sutherland, Warringah, Willoughby, Woollongong and Woollahra Councils have benefited from these workshops. 

Larger councils have run several workshops.  Smaller councils or councils with only one or two officers requiring training have joined forces for a combined workshop in a council training room.

• Background: reasons for assuring access to sunlight, commonly accepted standards etc.
• Principles. Sources of information. Predicting relative sun position, graphic projection of simple shadows.

• The complexity of accurate shadow casts on sloping ground, and on elevations.
• Vertical and Horizontal Shadow Angles. Relating solar geometry to buildings of given orientation.
  

• (Or demonstration, depending on participant expertise)
  
• Simple checking of overshadowing of neighbours.

• Using VSA and HSA to accurately predict the quantitative exposure to sunlight of a particular window.
• Establishing most of the basic principles of prediction and graphic projection.

• Demonstration and discussion.
  

• A simple, standardised tool for shadow casting.
• A convenient and accurate method of assessing sunlight exposure for critical locations, such as affected windows.

• Documentation which may reasonably be required of project proposals.
• Recommendations for standardised submissions. Potential for future practice.

• thoroughly understand the principles of solar geometry and its use in assessing solar access for residential dwellings
• understand and be able to construct shadow diagrams as required for design development and council submissions
• understand other graphic techniques for predicting in greater detail and more accurately, the duration and time of solar access to points of interest related to a proposed development
• have an overview of the available tools, including computer programs - their capacities, advantages and disadvantages
• better understand the requirements of councils and the Land & Environment Court and appropriate ways of fulfilling those requirements.