The Pass­ive House Plan­ning Pack­age (PHPP) is an Ex­cel-based en­ergy bal­an­cing and plan­ning tool for en­ergy-ef­fi­cient new builds and ret­ro­fits. It provides the re­quired evid­en­ce for cer­ti­fic­a­tion to the Pass­ive House, En­erPHit and PHI Low En­ergy Build­ing stand­ard.

More spe­cif­ic­ally, the tool has been val­id­ated and proven to de­liv­er re­li­able res­ults for:

• An­nu­al heat­ing de­mand [kWh/(m²a)] and max­im­um heat load [W/m²]
• Sum­mer thermal com­fort with act­ive cool­ing: an­nu­al cool­ing de­mand [kWh/(m²a)] und max­im­um cool­ing load [W/m²]
• Sum­mer thermal com­fort with pass­ive cool­ing: Fre­quency of over­heat­ing events [%]
• An­nu­al primary en­ergy de­mand (PE and PER) for the whole build­ing [kWh/(m²a)]
• Es­tim­ated an­nu­al gen­er­a­tion of re­new­able en­ergy [kWh/(m²­a)]

En­ergy bal­an­cing with the PHPP al­lows simple, dir­ect and, if re­quired, flex­ible data in­put. In­ter­face tools, ap­plic­a­tions for ex­ten­ded en­ergy bal­an­cing and add-ons give you ad­di­tion­al op­tions.

A com­pre­hens­ive hand­book with im­port­ant in­form­a­tion and tips sup­ports you in cre­at­ing cor­rect en­ergy bal­ances.

As of ver­si­on 10.6, the PHPP mas­ter bundle in­cludes the beta ver­sion of easyPH which con­sists of only 8 PHPP work­sheets and thus en­ables sim­pli­fied, rap­id bal­an­cing and cer­ti­fic­a­tion of single-fam­ily houses (max. 2 res­id­en­tial units, max. 1 vent­il­a­tion unit).