PHPP - the Passive House Planning Package

The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) is an important tool for designing Passive Houses consisting of a spreadsheet workbook and a manual. The PHPP provides everything needed to design a properly functioning Passive House including tools for:

• calculating energy balances (including U-value calculation)
• planning the windows
• designing the comfort ventilation system
• determining the heating load
• estimating the summer comfort
• design the heating and hot water supply

It also provides a variety of other useful tools for the reliable designing of Passive Houses as well as:

• verification for Passive House funding (e.g. for low-interest loans available in many countries)
• a simplified verification method (based on the German Energy Saving Ordinance)
• a detailed handbook that provides not only a detailed explanation of the PHPP calculation method but also important details for the construction of Passive Houses – the Passive House construction manual par excellence.
• an example project (residential building) calculated in the PHPP
  

For more information on the current PHPP version and to order, visit the PHI website

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