Description

This Acceptable Solution applies to housing, old people’s homes, and early childhood centres, up to 3 storeys that are:

• a) Detached; or
• b) Attached side by side multi-unit buildings including townhouses.

This Acceptable Solution applies to habitable spaces with simple façade designs and external windows that can be described by their glazing-to-wall ratio (GWR).

For buildings that do not meet this requirement, refer to the Acceptable Solution G7/AS2 or Verification Method G7/VM1 as a means to demonstrate compliance or use an alternative means to demonstrate compliance.

Scope

This acceptable solution does not include solutions for:

• a) habitable spaces that rely on daylight borrowed from another space; or
• b) habitable spaces that do not have at least one window in an external wall; or
• c) habitable spaces that include non-standard features such as advanced daylight redirection systems, complex facades, top lighting strategies, internal divisions, internal obstructions, external shading devices or other specialized designs; or
• d) habitable spaces with floor-to-ceiling heights of more than 3.0 m; or
• e) habitable spaces where more than 50% of the area of glazing are blocked by permanent external obstructions that are less than 1. 0m from the area of glazing (see Figure 1.1.2.1); or
• f) habitable spaces where windows are facing a porch, a covered walkway, or are under a balcony.