English Deutsch 简体中文
Institute
Jobs / Internships
Getting here
Services
Certification
Building Certification
Component Certification
Planning Tools
Training Courses
Home Institute
zusammenschnitt_kranichstein_copyright_phi
Datenbank-ID: 0195

The Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te

wolfgang_feist_1_peter_cook
© Peter Cook

The Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te is an in­ter­na­tion­ally lead­ing in­de­pend­ent re­search in­sti­tu­te with ex­tens­ive ex­pert­ise in the field of highly en­ergy-ef­fi­cient con­struc­tion and ren­ov­a­tion. It was foun­ded in 1996 by the ‘fath­er’ of the Pass­ive House concept, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Feist.

For the de­vel­op­ment of this build­ing concept Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Feist was awar­ded the Ger­man En­vir­on­ment Prize (the highest en­vir­on­ment­al award in Ger­many) by the Fed­er­al En­vir­on­ment­al Found­a­tion in 2001 as well as the In­ter­na­tion­al En­vir­on­ment Prize of the City of Gothen­burg (to­geth­er with Swedish ar­chi­tect Hans Eek) in 2003.

The world's first Pass­ive House was built in Darm­stadt, Ger­many, in 1990 (Data­base ID 0195). To this day, the multi-fam­ily house im­presses with its ex­tremely low heat­ing en­ergy con­sump­tion of less than 10 kWh/(m²a).

Fields of act­iv­ity

  • Research projects cov­er­ing a wide range of top­ics aimed at fur­ther re­fin­ing the Pass­ive House concept
     
  • Con­sult­ing ser­vices in­clud­ing ad­vice on en­ergy ef­fi­ciency meas­ures, pro­ject sup­port, qual­ity as­sur­ance, sim­u­la­tions and meas­ure­ments
     
  • Building certification and con­sul­tancy in all plan­ning phases
     
  • Component certification for highly en­ergy-ef­fi­cient build­ing com­pon­ents, as well as cus­tom­ised ad­vice to man­u­fac­tur­ing com­pan­ies on their product de­vel­op­ments
     
  • Training courses to be­come a cer­ti­fied Pass­ive House ex­pert, as well as on­go­ing learn­ing op­por­tun­it­ies in this field.
     
  • Tool development for fa­cili­t­a­ing the design of highly en­ergy-ef­fi­cient build­ings based on the Pass­ive House Plan­ning Pack­age (PHPP)
     
  • Public relations and col­lab­or­a­tion with rel­ev­ant act­ors from the re­gion­al to the glob­al level

A strong glob­al net­work

The Pass­ive House concept has de­lib­er­ately not been leg­ally pro­tec­ted and is there­fore freely avail­able to every­one. As an in­de­pend­ent re­search in­sti­tu­te, we at­tach great im­port­ance to ob­ject­iv­ity, in­teg­rity and equal op­por­tun­ity.

We are open to co­op­er­a­tion with suit­able part­ners world­wide and do not enter in­to ex­clus­ive agree­ments in or­der to pre­vent the form­a­tion of loc­al mono­pol­ies in the areas of cer­ti­fic­a­tion, fur­ther train­ing and con­sult­ing.

Un­der the um­brella or­gan­isa­tion of the In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House As­so­ci­ation (iPHA), 22 part­ner or­gan­isa­tions are already col­lab­or­at­ing to pro­mote en­ergy ef­fi­ciency in the con­struc­tion sec­tor. They net­work rel­ev­ant stake­hold­ers, ad­vise, edu­cate and con­duct pub­lic edu­ca­tion work in their re­spect­ive re­gions.