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Com­pon­ent cer­ti­fic­a­tion

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The mar­ket for en­ergy-ef­fi­cient build­ings is grow­ing rap­idly world­wide, in­creas­ing the de­mand for re­li­able, high-per­form­ance build­ing com­pon­ents. Of­ten, claims are made about the en­ergy ef­fi­ciency of products that are not borne out in prac­tice. The Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te cer­ti­fies en­ergy-ef­fi­cient com­pon­ents ac­cord­ing to in­ter­na­tion­al stand­ar­ds and en­sures that they ful­fil strict cri­ter­ia for ef­fi­ciency, com­fort and hy­giene in the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies:

  • Build­ing ser­vices (HVAC)

  • Trans­par­ent build­ing en­vel­ope

  • Build­ing sys­tems and com­pon­ents

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The Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te in­vites man­u­fac­tur­ers, sys­tem pro­viders, crafts­men, and in­ter­dis­cip­lin­ary teams to re­think how Pass­ive House win­dows can be in­teg­rated in­to ex­ist­ing façades with min­im­al dis­rup­tion, high en­ergy per­form­ance, and smart pre­fab­ric­a­tion strategies.

The aim: prac­tic­al solu­tions that sim­pli­fy the ret­ro­fit pro­cess and de­mon­strate that step-by-step ren­ov­a­tion us­ing high-per­form­ance com­pon­ents is not only pos­sible – but scal­able.

The win­ners will be hon­oured at the 28th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce in Es­sen.

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Benefits for building designers Benefits for manufacturers

Re­li­ab­il­ity

Cer­ti­fied com­pon­ents have been thor­oughly tested and as­sessed by the ex­per­i­en­ced en­gin­eers at the Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te. This en­sures that you can rely on the ac­cur­acy and con­sist­en­cy of im­port­ant per­form­ance val­ues such as thermal trans­mit­tance, air­tight­ness and hy­giene when design­ing your build­ing pro­jects.

 

Great com­pli­ance

The use of cer­ti­fied com­pon­ents makes it easi­er for you to achieve the re­quire­ments of the Pass­ive House or En­erPHit stand­ard. This al­lows you to re­duce both the time and com­plex­ity in­volved in car­ry­ing out cal­cu­la­tions, cre­at­ing en­ergy bal­ance mod­els and cer­ti­fy­ing the build­ing.

 

Product vari­ety

Over 1,000 cer­ti­fied Pass­ive House com­pon­ents are cur­rently avail­able. They are lis­ted in the on­line com­pon­ent data­base and their per­form­ance val­ues can be eas­ily im­por­ted in­to en­ergy bal­an­cing cal­cu­la­tions in the PHPP tool.

 

Pro­ject sup­port

Upon re­quest, the com­pon­ent cer­ti­fic­a­tion team is happy to cre­ate "PHPP in­put data sheets" for non-cer­ti­fied com­pon­ents to provide you with real­ist­ic char­ac­ter­ist­ic val­ues for your build­ing cer­ti­fic­a­tion (more de­tails).

 

Do you have a ques­tion or com­ment? Please feel free to send us an email or call us on (+49) 6151 82699-0.

Unique selling point

The Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te's "Cer­ti­fied Com­pon­ent" seal is a trust­worthy, in­ter­na­tion­ally re­cog­nised qual­ity mark that helps you make your products stand out in a highly com­pet­it­ive mar­ket.

 

En­hanced vis­ib­il­ity

All build­ing com­pon­ents cer­ti­fied by the Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te are pub­lished in the on­line com­pon­ent data­base to­geth­er with their key per­form­ance val­ues. They are also in­teg­rated in­to the PHPP tool, mean­ing that build­ing de­sign­ers can eas­ily se­lect cer­ti­fied com­pon­ents and quickly im­port the re­quired per­form­ance val­ues in­to their en­ergy bal­an­cing cal­cu­la­tions. 

 

Ideal in­teg­ra­tion

By cer­ti­fy­ing your com­pon­ents, you give build­ing de­sign­ers, con­struct­ors and pro­ject de­ve­lopers the cer­tainty that your products can be seam­lessly in­teg­rated in­to Pass­ive House pro­jects as they ful­fil the de­sired en­ergy ef­fi­ciency tar­gets.

 

Product op­tim­isa­tion and con­sult­ing

The com­pon­ent cer­ti­fic­a­tion team is happy to sup­port you with per­son­al­ised con­sult­ing and sim­u­la­tions in your ef­forts to en­er­get­ic­ally and eco­nom­ic­ally op­tim­ise your products. Thanks to our ex­tens­ive know­ledge of the high-en­ergy-ef­fi­ciency build­ing sec­tor, we can point out spe­cif­ic gaps and po­ten­tial in the cur­rent mar­ket and thus fa­cil­it­ate your ac­cess to this build­ing sec­tor.

 

To the cri­ter­ia for cer­ti­fic­a­tion

 

In­ter­es­ted in get­ting your products cer­ti­fied? Please send us an email or call us on (+49) 6151 82699-0.

Pro­ject ­sup­port for build­ing de­sign­ers: PHPP in­put da­ta sheets

Upon re­quest, the com­pon­ent cer­ti­fic­a­tion team can cre­ate PHPP in­put da­ta sheets for non-cer­ti­fied com­pon­ents to provide you with real­ist­ic char­ac­ter­ist­ic val­ues for your build­ing cer­ti­fic­a­tion. This is pos­sible for all cat­egor­ies of the thermal en­vel­ope, such as win­dows or doors, but also for spe­cial build­ing com­pon­ents whose char­ac­ter­ist­ic val­ues have to be de­term­in­ed in a 3D sim­u­la­tion. Here, the cal­cu­la­tion prin­ciples and bound­ary con­di­tions cor­res­pond to those of the com­pon­ent cer­ti­fic­a­tion guidelines.


In ad­di­tion, spe­cial situ­ations or com­bin­a­tions - also for cer­ti­fied com­pon­ents - can be re­ques­ted, for ex­ample for the de­term­in­a­tion of in­stall­a­tion para­met­ers or com­pon­ent com­bin­a­tions (e.g. bal­cony sys­tem with door exit, win­dow with shad­ing sys­tem, etc.).

Further details on the procedure

Our team can cre­ate PHPP in­put data­sheets for the fol­low­ing cat­egor­ies in ac­cord­ance with the cer­ti­fic­a­tion cri­ter­ia: 


•    Win­dow frames and fixed glaz­ing as well as sys­tem sec­tions such as mul­lions, sill pro­files, etc.
•    Sky­lights and roof win­dows
•    Win­dow in­stall­a­tion sys­tems and fall pro­tec­tion sys­tems
•    Thermal bridges at glass edges
•    Doors and french doors
•    Slid­ing doors
•    Sun shad­ing sys­tems
•    In­stall­a­tion situ­ations as needed
•    Façade sys­tems (opaque, trans­lu­cent, trans­par­ent)
•    Pil­lars and bal­conies


In the case of trans­par­ent build­ing com­pon­ents, it is not the ref­er­en­ce val­ues of the glaz­ing that are ev­al­u­ated in ac­cord­ance with the cer­ti­fic­a­tion cri­ter­ia, but the spe­cif­ic prop­er­ties of the glaz­ing used in the re­spect­ive pro­ject in or­der to ob­tain con­crete val­ues. The Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te in­dic­ates the thermal char­ac­ter­ist­ic val­ues and a cli­mate re­com­mend­a­tion on the data sheets.


The data sheets con­tain all the in­form­a­tion rel­ev­ant for build­ing cer­ti­fic­a­tion, such as heat trans­fer coef­fi­cients, sur­face tem­per­at­ures, ma­ter­i­als and bound­ary con­di­tions, as well as pro­file di­men­sions and al­loc­a­tions. These are at­tached to the cer­ti­fic­a­tion re­port. If ne­ces­sary, after con­sul­ta­tion with the re­spect­ive cer­ti­fi­er, bound­ary con­di­tions can be ad­ap­ted to suit build­ing re­quire­ments (e.g., tem­per­at­ure pro­files, bound­ary con­di­tions for hy­giene tests for spe­cial build­ings such as swim­ming pools, un­der­ground car parks, etc.).


Com­pon­ents for which no ex­pli­cit cri­ter­ia have been pub­lished are ev­al­u­ated in ac­cord­ance with re­cog­nised stand­ar­ds and codes of prac­tice. For ex­ample, this ap­plies to:


•    Sus­pen­sion sys­tems
•    Sys­tem gear trays, elec­tric­al sock­ets, mount­ing ele­ments, in­stall­a­tion hous­ings
•    Sup­port sys­tems for air con­di­tion­ing units or photo­vol­ta­ic sys­tems
•    Beams, flank­ing in­su­la­tion
•    In­su­la­tion hold­ers and dow­els
•    End rails and sys­tem com­pon­ents
•    Brack­ets and pen­et­ra­tions
•    More upon re­quest


We are happy to sup­port you with this ser­vice. Please send us an email with your re­quest along with a sketch and the e-mail sub­ject "PHPP In­put Da­ta Sheets".

Ques­tions or com­ments? The com­pon­ent cer­ti­fic­a­tion team will be happy to as­sist you dir­ec­tly by email or by tele­phone on (+49) 6151 82699-0.