How does the building certification process work? Why should buildings be certified? These are just some of the questions that the new series “iPHA Q&A with PHI” answered. Once a month, the iPHA Team sits together with experts from different departments at the Passive House Institute to hear about the work they do, what they offer and how you can make the most of those offerings.
Post date: 23 Dec 2020
Type: Link
Find out what the benefits of certifying your Passive House building are in this blog post.
Post date: 23 Dec 2020
Type: Link
Post date: 11 Oct 2019
Type: Event
The workshop will include three main sessions: -Bringing solutions together: voluntary certification schemes and other integrated approaches in support of deep renovation of buildings -Architects feedback on testing Level(s) -Up-skilling the AEC industry to deliver high quality energy efficient retrofitting with BIM learning tools
Post date: 5 Jun 2019
Type: Event
Last year, European Ministers of Culture, along with other institutions and NGOs, highlighted in the Davos Declaration “a trend towards a loss of quality in … the built environment … all over Europe”, characterised by “the trivialisation of construction, the lack of design values, … the growth of faceless urban sprawl and irresponsible land use, the deterioration of historic fabric, and the loss of regional traditions and identities”.
Post date: 3 Apr 2019
Type: Event
by François Durier (CETIAT) Reducing the energy consumption of heating and cooling systems in buildings requires:
Post date: 18 Dec 2017
Type: News
by: Anita Derjanecz, REHVA Managing Director - Francesco Mariottini, REHVA Assistant Project Engineer
Post date: 15 Dec 2017
Type: News
The German Working Group for Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of State and Municipal Administrations (AMEV) released in August its Guidelines on Technical Monitoring of buildings.
Post date: 14 Dec 2017
Type: Note
Commissioning i byggeriet er en proaktiv dialog- og kvalitetsstyringsproces, der fokuserer på totaløkonomi og installationernes samspil. Commissioning-processen sikrer det lavest mulige energiforbrug, et godt indeklima og velfungerende rammer for brugernes aktiviteter. Målet med vejledningen er, at inspirere byggeriets parter til at bruge commissioning til at sikre byggeriets kvalitet og en energieffektiv drift. Vejledningen er delt op i to dele:
Post date: 6 Dec 2017
Type: Publication
Denne standard beskriver anvendelsen af commissioning-processen til bygninger. Commissioning-processen er et værktøj til at sikre at krav til et byggeri opfyldes i alle byggeriets faser og ind i driftsfasen. Standarden er beregnet til brug i forbindelse med byggeri og ved større ombygninger herunder energirenoveringer. Større ombygninger omfatter bl.a. ombygninger, der medfører revision af det fremtidige energi- eller driftsbudget eller som har et højt indhold af teknisk indhold, som fx:
Post date: 6 Dec 2017
Type: Publication