April 22, 2025

3-5pm ET

Passive House is an enclosure-first approach that empowers architectural design to drive comfort, resilience, health, and efficiency outcomes. The Passive House enclosure is fundamental to overall building performance optimization. We’ll look at the elements of high-performance enclosure design and construction, the order of priorities, the strategies, systems, components, and details required. From cold to hot and humid climates, and across different construction types and building scales, we’ll look at how to deliver predictable results.

2 AIA & 2 PHI CEUs

Includes ALL current on-demand specialized courses:

1. Using PHPP
2. PHPP: New Features
3. PHPP: Master Class
4. Thermal Bridging
5. Passive House Windows
6. Passive House Retrofits: The EnerPHit Standard
   

• 52 AIA HSW and 45 PHI Credits

This is a bundle focused on Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) learning, and includes:

1. Using PHPP
2. PHPP: New Features
3. PHPP: Master Class

• 32 AIA HSW and 20 PHI Credits

Be introduced to thermal-bridge simulation and analysis using the free LBNL THERM software. Learn the basics of the software with a walk-through from installation, library setup, and then modeling several example conditions within THERM. See how the instructor works through screen-casts. Model along with the instructor through the process and concepts of model sample details. Simulate a variety of thermal bridging case examples, from simple wall designs to more complex details. Most examples focus on wood-frame construction and remain relatively simple.

• 14 AIA HSW & 18 PHI Credits

The Passive House Institute developed EnerPHit certification standards to accommodate the realities of existing old buildings, where foundations, party lines, historic preservation, cost, and other factors make a typical Passive House certification impractical. This course looks at the criteria, the pathways, and the potential exemptions that drive EnerPHit performance to deliver the health, efficiency, and resilience results we expect from Passive House. Through case studies of successful retrofits, see how to upgrade a building with respect to airtightness, insulation, thermal bridge reductions, high-performance windows, and ventilation.

• 2 LU|HSW & 3 PHI Credits