.:: Passive House Planning Package ::.

The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) is a spreadsheet based design tool aimed at architects and designers to assist the design of Passivhaus standard.

The PHPP energy balance module has been shown to be able to describe the thermal building characteristics of passive houses surprisingly accurately. This applies particularly to the new technique for calculating the heating load, which was developed specifically for Passive Houses.
As it is spreadsheet based, designers can use PHPP to evaluate design solutions immediately without the need to wait for dynamic simulations to run.

PHPP has been extended within the framework of the EIE project Passive-it for the assessment of summer comfort and cooling. PHPP 2007 can be purchased from the Passivhaus Institut for 130 Euro and is relatively cheap if compared to other comprehensive building simulation software tools. A reduced functionality demo version of PHPP 2007 is available on the Passive-On CD and for download from the Passive-On WEB site.

The new calculations introduced into PHPP 2007, developed within the context of Passive-On are:

- Solar loads through opaque building elements
- Night ventilation
- Monthly method for cooling
- Overheating frequency
- Peak cooling load
- Latent load

Flemish (Version 2003, Excel workbook in Flemish with German manual):
Passiefhuis-Platform vzw
Gitschotellei 138
2600 BERCHEM
BELGIUM
Telephone: +32 / (0) 3 235 02 81
Fax: +32 / (0) 3 271 03 59
www.passiefhuisplatform.be
info@passiefhuisplatform.be

Italian (Version 2002):
Associazione.PAEA - Progetti Alternativi per l'Energia e l'Ambiente
Via Monchio 14
42030 MONTALTO (RE)
ITALY
Telephone: +39 / 0522 60 52 51
Fax: +39 / 0522 60 52 51
www.paea.it (also available in English)
paea@libero.it - phpp@paea.it