The Passive House Fundamentals online course is located on our Moodle platform: participants can access it from wherever they want, in their own time and at their own pace. This allows for a tailored learning experience and reduces travel and accommodation costs.

It covers 10 topics: each one is divided into sub-units, including a video presentation followed by further material and a quiz. You need to pass the final assessment by the end of October, so we can best address knowledge gaps during the in-class training. Our staff will monitor your progress and provide you with technical support if needed.

Besides lectures and discussions, you will deepen your knowledge with workshops, as well as calculation and design exercises. In addition, you will have a closer look at our Passive House component and materials collection!

Module 1 - Building envelope

• Day 1: Building envelope
• Day 2: Building envelope

Module 2 - Building Services & Economics

• Day 3: Ventilation
• Day 4: Heating, cooling/dehumidification, domestic hot water
• Day 5: Retrofit, economics, certification

Module 3 - PHPP Basics

• Day 6 and 7: Hands on PHPP: Basic knowledge of the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP), the energy balancing and planning tool for efficient buildings and refurbishments.

This course will prepare you to pass the Certified Passive House Designer / Consultant exam, which is offered as an online exam. The exam itself however is not included in the course. On successfully passing the exam, you will receive an internationally recognized certificate and be listed on our worldwide database for 5 years.

In large and complex construction projects, practitioners and coordinators face many challenges, especially with regard to energy efficiency aspects.

Take a Site Su­per­vi­sor course to get skills and know­ledge that are es­sen­tial to suc­cess­fully ex­ecut­ing com­plex and large Pass­ive House and En­erPHit build­ing design on-site.

Look for­ward to nu­mer­ous ex­amples and prac­tic­al in­form­a­tion about con­struc­tion man­age­ment, opaque and trans­par­ent build­ing ele­ments, air­tight­ness and mech­an­ic­al ser­vices and learn to as­sess the im­pact of your de­cisions on the con­struc­tion site on the en­ergy bal­ance of the build­ing.

Module “Commissioning”

Does the Passive House live up to its promise? Does the building really function as energy-efficiently in reality as planned? For this topic, the commissioning of the building is of the greatest importance - apart from the construction.

Take this course and get as­sist­ance for plan­ning and ex­ecut­ing the com­mis­sion­ing for MVHR, heat­ing and cool­ing sys­tems or shad­ing. Learn about mon­it­or­ing, data ac­quis­i­tion, meas­ur­ing un­cer­tain­ties and soft­ware tools for per­form­ance evalu­ation and op­tim­isa­tion.

Module “Navigating certification”

Afraid of high workload for Passive House certifications? No worries – just take this course to profit efficiently from the advantages of a Passive House / EnerPHit certification.

Become familiar with the certification process and criteria. Explore the consultancy service and the clear and helpful certification platform, get an overview about all documents you need. This will enable you to offer your client the benefits of Passive House / EnerPHit certification - effectively and cost-efficiently.

This course will prepare you to pass the additional Site Supervisor exam or the Construction Verifier exam. The exam itself however is not included in the course. It will be offered online.

On successfully passing the Site Supervisor exam, you will receive the additional certificate "Site Supervisor" - if you have a valid Passive House tradesperson certificate.

After successfully passing the Construction Verifier exam, you will receive the additional certificate "Construction Verifier" -  if you have a valid Passive House designer/consultant certificate.

Gain knowledge of PHPP features for advanced users:

    • Non-residential buildings
    • Input of design variants
    • Economic feasibility comparisons
    • Energy efficient retrofits principles
    • PHPP for retrofits
    • EnerPHit classes: Energy efficiency and renewables for retrofits
    • The EnerPHit pre-certification scheme for step-by-step retrofits
    • The EnerPHit Retrofit Plan (ERP)

Are you already familiar with PHPP? Then come and explore the advantages of designPH, the SketchUp based plugin to model Passive House buildings in 3D and get to know our new export tool from BIM models to PHPP!

• How does designPH work?
• Input/analysis of a building model
• Optimization of relevant features
• Special building types: different approaches
• How does the BIM-tool work

Knowledge of SketchUP and a BIM software (Revit, ArchiCAD, Vectorworks, Rhinoceros with VisualARQ) is required

Learn more about thermal bridges and get first experiences how to calculate thermal bridges.

• Thermal bridge concept
• Use THERM
• Get a feeling for the psi value
• Typical thermal bridges in buildings
• Requirements for building certification

This course will prepare you to pass the additional PHPP expert exam. The exam itself however is not included in the course. On successfully passing the exam, you will receive the additional certificate "PHPP expert", if you have a valid Passive House designer/consultant certificate.