Hackbridge School / Jack Hobhouse
Join our growing community of Certified Passivhaus Designers driving positive and vital change within the construction industry.
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Certified Designer - January
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Endorsed by THE PASSIVHAUS TRUST, this internationally recognised course offers an incredible learning experience, delivered by the UK's leading Passivhaus experts via a powerful mix of live sessions and tutorials, self-study and supporting materials, and including inspirational Passivhaus case studies and full support with the Certified Passivhaus Designer/Consultant examination. Our trainers all work in the Passivhaus sector, bringing their wealth of experience in sharing best practice and how to tackle real issues that Passivhaus projects may encounter.
If you are a construction professional working in the UK and involved in the design of all types of Passivhaus buildings, or you want to improve the environmental performance of your projects, this course is for you. We teach the core concepts underpinning the Passivhaus standard, considerations and methodologies for design and the use of the Passivhaus Planning Package (PHPP) for achieving low energy performance.
You will need some knowledge of UK construction systems, as well as a general understanding of maths, use of Microsoft Excel and an ability to read building plans.
"Eye-opening, well-organised and inspirational. Other courses don't compare."
Flo McKnight, Croft Design Collective
Our Passivhaus Designer course material is grounded in first-hand industry experience and prepares learners to deliver energy modelling and consult on Passivhaus projects.
We teach the core concepts behind the Passivhaus standard, considerations and methodologies for its implementation and the use of the Passivhaus Planning Package (PHPP) for achieving low energy performance. This course will teach you how to bring this learning to your projects as well as prepare you for the Certified Passivhaus Designer/Consultant exam.
Upon successful completion of the course:
Much Wenlock / Richard Kiely
Coaction Training CIC is a social enterprise, and we work hard to keep our fees as affordable as possible whilst giving all our learners the confidence to deliver real world results.
Notes:
With teaching firmly based on UK building typologies from small-scale to large complex buildings, and including both residential and non-residential, you'll develop an understanding of:
Your learning journey
Learning is structured into a series of modules to direct your learning through the essential aspects of Passivhaus.
Pre-course learning
We enrol you for FREE on our BITESIZE PASSIVHAUS COURSE to cover the basics first. You will have access to self-study modules you can complete in your own time plus you will be invited to additional live workshops to check and deepen learning. You will need to complete this course before starting the Designer course.
Module 1: Fabric
A short Introduction to Science kicks off the module, working through the essential equations you will encounter on this course. The Fabric module explores concepts of building physics including heat transfer, the energy balance of buildings and what is necessary to ensure thermal comfort and avoid summer overheating, plus an exploration of how each of the required values can be calculated and what this means in practice for building design. At each stage, practical construction examples and guidance provide context to the science. We'll discuss how Passivhaus construction differs to standard practice, with a focus on achieving airtightness and thermal bridge free construction, and understand how successful design follows through to what happens on site.
Module 2: Building Services for Passivhaus
We'll explore different elements of building services used in Passivhaus, essential learning regardless of whether you are a services engineer or not. If you're not a building services engineer we want you to be able to interrogate services design at a high level and understand how services requirements can influence the building design. If you are involved in services design you'll learn what's different to business as usual. This module covers the concepts, calculations and commissioning for ventilation design, heating systems and hot water distribution and a review of Primary Energy Renewable.
Module 3: PHPP - Introduction to Passivhaus Planning Package software
Bringing together learning from the previous modules, we will guide you through completing a whole PHPP spreadsheet, allowing you to develop your understanding of the inputs, parameters and implications for building design.
Module 4: Economics
A short self-study module teaching you essential economics in preparation for the Passivhaus exam.
Revision & Small-group Tutorials
Sessions to recap on the teaching so far and prepare for the exam, with plenty of practice questions and support.
"It was great to have trainers with a wealth of practical passive house experience."
designer Graduate
"Thank you for your time, effort and care. I am hoping it will change the direction of my practice"
designer Graduate
"The fact that each of the trainers has hands on experience in the field delivering certified passive houses is really what sets this course apart"
designer Graduate
"Thanks again to the trainers for a fascinating course so far, I am already feeling a lot of things falling into place."
designer Graduate
"I really enjoyed the course and learnt a lot from it. What's more many of my clients are very intrigued by the whole concept and are looking to embrace it following my discussions with them."
designer Graduate
"The best quality and most relevant training I have ever received, delivered by specialists with a huge amount of real-world experience."
designer Graduate
"The course was rigorous and I felt very supported throughout."
designer Graduate
"Eye-opening, well-organised and, quite honestly, inspirational. Honestly, others don't compare."
designer Graduate
"The course was fantastic in bringing together so many different experts from different disciplines - demonstrating the collaboration that is required to design and build a Passivhaus."
designer Graduate
"It was by far the best course that I have been on in the 25+ years since I started studying architecture. It was much more than I could have hoped for and I now feel much better equipped to carry on as a sole trading architect."
designer Graduate
"Nice to be taught by really enthusiastic and committed practitioners. Thank you."
designer Graduate
"Fantastic trainers and extremely well run."
designer Graduate
"I found the quality of the teaching to be incredibly high with a real depth of knowledge shown by all and really obvious personal interest"
designer Graduate