Con­nect­ing the Pass­ive House sec­tor

iPHA serves as a com­mu­nic­a­tion plat­form for its mem­bers, where the list­ing of mem­bers and their act­iv­it­ies in the mem­ber data­base plays an im­port­ant role in con­nect­ing the com­mu­nity. Wheth­er you are seek­ing com­pan­ies, pro­ject part­ners, and ex­perts or you would just like to share your ex­per­i­en­ces, iPHA helps you find oth­er Pass­ive House stake­hold­ers both on­line and through Pass­ive House events.

For­ging part­ner­ships with Pass­ive House or­gan­isa­tions world­wide

iPHA of­fi­cially af­fil­i­ates with in­de­pend­ent Pass­ive House As­so­ci­ations in­ter­na­tion­ally that have agreed to up­hold high stand­ar­ds in their work and have in­teg­rated their mem­ber­ship with that of iPHA's. iPHA works with af­fil­i­ate or­gan­isa­tions to en­cour­age open ex­change and strengthen links with­in the com­mu­nity.

Shar­ing ex­pert­ise on the Pass­ive House Stand­ard

iPHA dis­sem­in­ates Pass­ive House know­ledge by con­nect­ing the loc­al to the glob­al and fos­ter­ing in­form­a­tion flow in both dir­ec­tions to the be­ne­fit of all in­volved. Reg­u­lar emails and pub­lic­a­tions de­tail the latest de­vel­op­ments on the Pass­ive House mar­ket. iPHA mem­bers com­mu­nic­ate dir­ec­tly with one an­oth­er on the iPHA For­um and Pas­si­pe­dia, the re­source for everything and any­thing Pass­ive House, of­fers a wealth of up to date Pass­ive House know­ledge on­line. The goal: to dis­sem­in­ate and ad­vance know­ledge about the Pass­ive House Stand­ard and en­sure its con­sist­ent high qual­ity.

Build­ing aware­ness of the Pass­ive House concept

The In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House As­so­ci­ation (iPHA) pro­motes the Pass­ive House Stand­ard, as de­ve­loped by the Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te, in the pub­lic arena. Com­plete, up to date in­form­a­tion can be found on this web­site, which also presents iPHA mem­bers and af­fil­i­ates. To help raise aware­ness, iPHA fa­cil­it­ates Pass­ive House events such as the an­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Days and as­sists with the an­nu­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce. Ad­di­tion­ally, reg­u­lar press re­leases in both the daily and spe­cial­ised press help to raise the pro­file of Pass­ive Houses in the me­dia.

Show­cas­ing com­pleted pro­jects and res­id­ent ex­per­i­en­ces

iPHA en­cour­ages the doc­u­ment­a­tion of com­pleted Pass­ive House build­ings as well as the ex­per­i­en­ces of res­id­ents and users – es­sen­tial for com­mu­nic­a­tion on the ad­vant­ages of Pass­ive House to the wider pub­lic. All iPHA mem­bers can present their com­pleted Pass­ive House pro­jects in an on­line data­base car­ried out in part­ner­ship with Passivhaus Di­enstleis­tung GmbH. Ad­di­tion­ally, iPHA of­fers its mem­bers sup­port in show­ing their Pass­ive House Pro­jects in the con­text of the an­nu­al In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Days.

In­form­ing on the de­vel­op­ment of the Pass­ive House mar­ket

The iPHA serves as the point of ref­er­en­ce for Pass­ive House ques­tions while provid­ing valu­able in­form­a­tion to pro­fes­sion­als, com­mu­nic­at­ors and the gen­er­al pub­lic alike. De­tailed in­form­a­tion and down­loads for all stake­hold­ers can be found throughout the iPHA web­site. iPHA mem­bers re­ceive the ad­ded be­ne­fit of ac­cess to spe­cial ma­ter­i­als and Pas­si­pe­dia, the Pass­ive House re­source.

In the face of cli­mate change, the need to curb green­house gas emis­sions is be­com­ing ever more ap­par­ent. A key con­trib­ut­or to total green­house gas emis­sions, en­ergy use in build­ings can be re­duced through in­creases in en­ergy ef­fi­ciency while en­sur­ing the highest levels of com­fort. In this re­spect, the Pass­ive House Stand­ard, de­ve­loped by the Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te, of­fers the sus­tain­able and cost ef­fect­ive an­swer for ef­fi­cient en­ergy use in build­ings. In or­der to ad­vance the Pass­ive House Stand­ard as well as the qual­ity for which it stands world­wide, the Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te foun­ded iPHA, the In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House As­so­ci­ation (iPHA).

 

iPHA's mis­sion

The Pass­ive House As­so­ci­ation (iPHA) and its in­ter­na­tion­al af­fil­i­ates re­cog­nise that pro­mot­ing com­fort­able, high qual­ity, and highly ef­fi­cient build­ings is key to re­du­cing en­ergy use in the build­ing sec­tor and thereby curb­ing cli­mate change. The As­so­ci­ation is an in­teg­ral part of the Pass­ive House Stand­ard’s cus­todi­an, the Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te, and thus acts as a bridge between the glob­al Pass­ive House com­mu­nity and the In­sti­tu­te’s cut­ting edge re­search and qual­ity as­sur­ance work. We con­nect a grow­ing glob­al net­work of stake­hold­ers and see ourselves as a plat­form of ex­change, fa­cil­it­at­ing in­ter­na­tion­al col­lab­or­a­tion on en­ergy ef­fi­ciency in con­struc­tion. Through aware­ness rais­ing and net­work­ing as well as edu­ca­tion­al and com­mu­nic­a­tion act­iv­it­ies, iPHA aims to drive up­take of the Pass­ive House Stand­ard world­wide.

iPHA is com­mit­ted to a set of key prin­ciples: