Passive House Planning Package Training – Intermediate – Areas

A 3 hour live teaching session, with in class PHPP exercises to follow along with (2.5 hours of teaching with half an hour’s allowance for time answering questions. Questions can be asked at any point throughout the session).

Upcoming course dates:

• Thursday 5th November 2026, 10:00am – 13:00pm

We’ll be introducing more intermediate sessions next year!

If you would like to register your interest to hear when further courses become available to book, please register your interest here

Do you have a PHPP topic/issue in mind that you’d like to receive more advanced training and guidance on? Please let us know here.

• Examine how to approach Treated Floor Area (TFA), including for non-residential buildings (Please note, its helpful to have an understanding of the residential rules, as covered in our PHPP Beginner course, before looking at the non-residential).
• Learn how to approach thermal bridges in PHPP, in the Areas tab (not covered in the PHPP beginners course).
• Building design professionals, Passivhaus Designers and Passivhaus Consultants who previously attended an AECB PHPP course or an industry CPD on PHPP may value the opportunity to deepen your practical know how and increase confidence and capability when approaching more complex projects in PHPP.
• Compliments the Certified Passivhaus Designer course for a deeper, more technical understanding of the PHPP design process.
• Live, online, interactive teaching, with lots of opportunity to use the software and ask questions, with in class exercises to follow along with and receive feedback.
• Graduates can claim 3 PHI credit points towards renewal of a Certified Passivhaus Designer/Consultant or Tradesperson certification.
• PHPP v10.6 is recommended to get the most out of the course (the software is not included in the course price and must be purchased separately). However, it is also possible to use earlier versions of v10.x, there may be some small differences. Anyone using version 9.x should upgrade as we will be covering the whole window approach used in v10.

This is the first of more sessions to come that start to take a deeper, technical look, for those who have been using PHPP and are starting to become involved in more complex projects.

• This session will eventually become part of a full intermediate level PHPP course of 3-4 sessions plus a practice project.
• There will be the option to book onto the further sessions as they are launched.
• If you would like to register your interest to hear when further courses become available to book, please register your interest here
• Do you have a PHPP topic/issue in mind that you’d like to receive more advanced training and guidance on? Please let us know here.

In this course we will build on our initial PHPP beginners course, to take a more in depth, intermediate level look at the following aspects of the Areas tab:

• Areas: A thorough look at TFA rules (Treated Floor Area) for residential and non-residential buildings
• Areas: Dimensions using the actual thickness of your roof, floor and walls from your U-values
• Areas: Working out the area of a sloping roof by formula
• Areas: Entering pre-calculated thermal bridges and 2 resources for this.

This will help build practical know how in modelling TFA and thermal bridges in PHPP for more complex projects, in the Areas tab.

• AECB Members £60+VAT
• AECB Certifiers and Modellers £54+VAT
• AECB Student Members £20+VAT
• Non-members £75+VAT

(course prices do not include PHPP software)

20% Discount for those who have completed the AECB PHPP Course*

Graduates will have been emailed a discount code, or, please do ask us at [email protected]

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 a discount code or invoice for your multi-buy discount, and please provide your candidate names and email addresses.

• 5% discount for a group of 3-4
• 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