Whole Life Carbon Assessment Course

The next live course runs September – October:

• • Session 1 – Thursday 10th September 2026
  • Session 2 – Thursday 17th September 2026
  • Skip a week due to the AECB Conference
  • Session 3 – Thursday 1st October 2026

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2.5 hours a week from 10:00 – 12:00/12:30 am, over 3 weeks (a total of 6 – 7.5 hours live teaching)

• The sessions will be a min of 2 hours, with an extra half an hour allowance each session depending on the number of questions.
• Plus 3 hours for assessment exercises in between sessions for PHribbon users.

The course is due to run again live in mid September 2026. If you would like to register your interest to hear when booking for the December course becomes available, please do let us know at [email protected]

OR, do you need to get up to speed with the software as soon as possible, and aren’t able to wait for the next live course?

• We can provide recordings of the latest course, to watch within the learning platform, plus one live Q&A session with the tutor and software developer Tim Martel. The Q&A would become available to book from a selection of dates, usually on a Monday or Friday at 14:00, after having watched the recordings.
• The tutor Tim Martel will also be available via a tutor contact link within the learning platform, should you have any immediate questions or support requirements arising.
• PHribbon users who are AECB members will be able to complete the two course assessments in order to become an AECB PHribbon Endorsed User.
• This on demand course format is available at a 30% discounted price.
• Please use the discount code when booking and your booking will be processed as soon as possible: WLCA#OnDemand

• This course is relevant to both PHribbon and AECB Carbon Calculator users.
• Live, online, interactive teaching, with lots of opportunity to use the software and ask questions, with in class exercises to follow along with.
• This course focuses on how to use PHribbon or AECB Carbon Calcluator (whichever software you have) to perform detailed embodied and operational carbon calculations, with exercises to practice these and receive general feedback.
• If it should happen that a student has to miss a session, they can watch the recording of the session.
• There are 15 places available each time the course runs. Due to its interactive nature, the course requires a minimum of 5 students in order to run.

PHribbon users:

• No previous knowledge of PHribbon is required, however, you will need to be fairly familiar with PHPP and it is important to have the PHPP (version 10 and above) and PHribbon software set up ready to use.
• There are two assessment exercises for you to do, in between the weekly sessions. There will be three attempts at each exercise, with practice examples having been given during the live sessions. The emphasis is to ensure that you understand how to tackle a range of situations and get reliable answers.

• Learn directly from the expert, software author Tim Martel, with lots of opportunity to ask questions, practice use of the tool and receive feedback from Tim.
• Show clients the carbon reduction benefits to projects, and the impacts of different material choices, early on.
• RICS 2nd edition – learn how this revised approach works (RICS is the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, their approach is based on EN15978).
• RIBA Climate Challenge and LETI – Calculate how your designs measure up to these standards.
• Helps you meet your clients decarbonisation goals.
• UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard – An estimate of the pilot is given, though their first edition will have their own mechanisms and methods.
• Combined embodied and operational carbon graph – showing the combined effect. It’s is all too easy to focus on embodied and miss the operational, also because operational targets are often in kWh, not CO2
• Thinking has progressed a long way since PHribbon/Cabon Calculator was first introduced. For example, we no longer regard the manufacturers view of the lifetime of a product as necessarily the right figure to use in calculations in some circumstances. In the course we will be giving examples of why those figures don’t work for some materials and how we have improved on this.

PHribbon users:

• Graduates can claim 8 PHI credit points towards renewal of a Certified Passivhaus Designer/Consultant qualification.
• AECB members can join a list of endorsed PHribbon users, displayed in the AECB membership directory. The endorsement will be for the relevant version/s of PHribbon. If a significant update to PHribbon is released there will be the opportunity to join/watch an AECB webinar about the update to update your endorsement to that version of PHribbon.

Carbon Calculator users:

• Gain 2 years of free licence renewals upon gaining your course completion certificate

Live teaching course:

• AECB Members £162+VAT
• AECB Student Members £50+VAT
• Non-members £202+VAT

On-demand, recorded course with 1 live Q&A:

• Use Discount Code: WLCA#OnDemand when booking to receive a 30% discount and your booking will be processed as soon as possible.

(course prices do not include PHribbon, PHPP or AECB Carbon Calculator software)

AECB Carbon Calculator costs £100 +VAT for AECB members, or £150 +VAT for Non-members. There is then an annual licence fee, which is £25 +VAT annual fee for members or £35 +VAT annual fee for Non-members. If you would like to purchase the AECB Carbon Calculator, please click on the icon below, and do take a look at the product description which gives details about the system requirements to run PHribbon.

The PHribbon software costs £200+VAT for AECB members, or £250+VAT for Non-members. There is then a £50+VAT annual license fee. If you would like to purchase PHribbon, please click on the AECB PHribbon icon below, and do take a look at the product description which gives details about the system requirements to run PHribbon. PHPP is required to run PHribbon.

Discounts are available when purchasing the course with PHribbon

Member Discount Bundles*

• PHribbon software + PHribbon course = £332 +VAT (otherwise £362 +VAT)
• PHribbon software + PHribbon course + PHPP v10 = £462 +VAT (otherwise £512 +VAT)
• PHribbon software + PHribbon course + PHPP upgrade = £442 +VAT (otherwise £482 +VAT)

Non-Member Discount Bundles*

• PHribbon software + PHribbon course = £422 +VAT (otherwise £452 +VAT)
• PHribbon software + PHribbon course + PHPP v10 = £582 +VAT (otherwise £632 +VAT)
• PHribbon software + PHribbon course + PHPP upgrade = £552 +VAT (otherwise £592 +VAT)

*Discount bundles are not available when purchasing the PHribbon course at the student member price of £50 +VAT

If applicable, please proceed to Book and Purchase each of the products, to add them to your basket, and you will be guided to add a discount code at checkout.

Multi-buy discounts are available to membership levels that have supplementary members*

Multi-buy discounts are available only when the bookings are made for candidates within the same company/organisation as part of one order/transaction.

If applicable, please contact [email protected] to request an invoice for your multi-buy discount and please provide your candidate names and email addresses.

• 5% discount for a group of 2-4
• 10% discount for a group of 5-9
• 15% discount for a group of 10 or more

*Discounts are not available when purchasing the course at the student member price of £50 +VAT

In the first session we will take a look at:

• Installation
• Button 1 – Entering materials from U-values
• Button 2 – Entering windows
• Button 3 – Entering materials not in the PHPP
• Button 4 – Entering services

In the second session we will cover:

• • Review of Exercise 1
  • Creating further options
  • Demolish and rebuild
  • Materials which need special consideration -render
  • Whole Life Carbon CO2 run through
  • Introduction to EmbodR tab

In the third and final session we will cover:

• • Review of Exercise 2
  • Spotting mistakes
  • Entering your own EPDs
  • Improving your building to meet targets
  • UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard