Name: AECB PHribbon Package - AECB
SKU: 11023
Price: 250.00 GBP
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AECB PHribbon Package

£250.00 + VAT

SKU: 11023

Price includes first year’s annual license fee only. *PHribbon uses Excel as a base, if installing on a MAC you will need to first install a PC Emulator* Please see the Technical Requirements section below. PHribbon © 2020 Tim Martel

Easy to use software to help with PHPP calculations

The UK version of PHribbon is developed exclusively for the AECB and works as a plugin to PHPP.

AECB PHribbon makes using PHPP quicker, easier and it uses the existing information beyond just energy.

PHribbon enables you to build the PHPP faster, and CO₂ calculations benefit designers, consultants and clients by making the modelling an easier, quicker process. The latest version of PHribbon gives the carbon impact of materials before they are selected and the impact of substitution of materials can be quickly seen.

This AECB software contributes something that has not been done before. There are embodied carbon calculations and tools elsewhere in the market but PHribbon integrates these calculations into the PHPP software as you work.

For more detailed information on the PHribbon product please click here

Add-Ons

There are two add-ons available to enhance the PHribbon package: Daylight Factor and Costings.

Watch this introduction to the AECB PHribbon software to see how it can assist with your calculations

PHribbon designer Tim Martel explains the benefits of using the software

“It’s good to start using it at an early design stage when you are considering what materials you might use. As you build your Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) energy model it calculates the embodied CO₂ and can offer alternatives. Additionally, as it is working in PHPP, the energy calculation is already in there, and that is used by PHribbon to work out the operational CO₂.

You can be working in one package while you revise your ideas. If you have finished your calculations and want to go back to adjust material areas or thicknesses in PHPP, those changes automatically feed through to the PHribbon side because the links are formulas.

To get feedback at that early stage is useful and it is where you have most flexibility about making decisions.”

Learn how to use PHribbon to perform detailed embodied and operational carbon calculations

Live, online, interactive teaching, with lots of opportunity to practice using the PHribbon software and ask questions.

Bundle discounts are available when purchasing the PHribbon software with the training course. See the course page, Price section, for more details.

Looking for a practitioner who can carry out the carbon calculations for your project?

We have a list of AECB Endorsed PHribbon Users for carrying out whole life carbon calculations. These are graduates who have passed our PHribbon training course

Further information, Installation Guide and Licence Agreement

PHribbon will be continually updated to allow for developments in PHPP, building regulations and other standards. To allow us to keep your copy of PHribbon updated we will charge an annual recurring subscription fee to fund these developments. The subscription fee will enable you to automatically receive all updates and fixes as they are released.

The first year’s subscription is included in the purchase price.

PHribbon consists of three parts: Build PHPP and Embodied CO₂and an annual subscription fee to enable software developments and upgrades.

The total package price is £250 ex VAT for non members and this includes a £70 ex VAT purchase of an annual recurring subscription fee. The subscription fee will be payable annually on the purchase anniversary.

The AECB members price is £200 ex VAT which includes a discounted subscription fee at £50 ex VAT also payable annually.

The price of the software includes a user guide.

Your payment confirmation email will ask for a security code which you get from a downloaded spreadsheet. Pressing the button in that spreadsheet just reads a unique code on your computer, it makes no changes whatsoever. If you change your computer in the future a new Licence Key will be sent to you free of charge.

Software will be distributed by Dropbox to enable updates to be sent to you automatically. Once you have the software, copy it from the Dropbox to your own folder. Enter the licence key at the top of the Install tab then follow the instructions below it. You will also need to enable macros, there are instructions about how to do this safely in the User Guide. (Macros are already part of PHPP v9.6 variants version written by the Passivhaus Institute.)

By using this software you agree to these terms :

Users may not redistribute the PHribbon spreadsheet, or repackage it free of charge or otherwise.
The software has been rigorously tested and great care has been taken to ensure there are no errors, however not every situation in which PHPP can be used can be foreseen, therefore checks for costs are still recommended. Any mistakes found will be corrected free of charge and all users updated. The user is responsible for checking the figures, especially in circumstances where they are critical. In extreme circumstances the maximum compensation will be a refund of the price paid for the software. By using this software you agree that no legal claim can be made against the AECB nor Tim Martel.
Costs provided are indicative only and are the best information available to the author. By their very nature they are variable according to location, supplier and quantity. They serve only as a starting point and can be updated at any time either for one project (i.e. changing the figure in the costs tab in the PHPP) or by changing the master table for all future projects in the PHribbon spreadsheet.

Microsoft have had the facility to add custom buttons on a ribbon (toolbar) in Excel for some time. Tim Martel and the AECB have teamed up to create one for PHPP which speeds up common tasks and extends what PHPP can do. No special PHPP is needed. It is designed for PHPP v10 and most buttons (apart from windows and d-reveal) are also compatible with earlier versions of PHPP: 9.6, 9.3, 9.1 and 8.5. You can also use it with PHPPs created by designPH.

Watch this demo video to find out more