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From SketchUp to PHPP: Master Passive House Design with designPH: ONLINE – JUL 2025
This 4 day course will take learners from the very beginning up to a completed whole-building energy model using the powerful new DesignPH 2.2 plugin.
July 22, 2025 @ 9:00 am - 1:00 pm PDT
Dates
Day 1 – 2: Tuesday July 22, 2025 & Thursday July 24, 2025 from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm (PT)
Day 3 – 4: Tuesday July 29, 2025 & Wednesday July 30, 2025 from 9:00 am – 1:00 pm (PT)
Course description
Streamline your Passive House design workflow, easily create accurate shading parameters for your project and save yourself time! This course will take learners from the very beginning up to a completed whole-building energy model using the powerful new designPH 2.2 plugin.
Participants will follow along, step-by-step with a real project, starting with the CAD geometry, turning it into a full 3D surface model, build and apply assemblies, manage thermal bridges, create complex window objects as well as detailed site shading and interior room-level data. We’ll also review the overall workflow and how to use designPH within a real project as well as how to move project data into PHPP models.
Students will need to have completed our 120A and 120B course before taking this master class. A basic understanding of SketchUp is required, we recommend using the free tutorials for beginners, available online.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the designPH workflow, tools and structure including aspects related to modeling, simulation and exporting of Passive House relevant data.
- Apply techniques around 3D modeling and building energy modeling within an example project, going from source CAD files to a complete PHPP model.
- Learn to evaluate the results from designPH simulations, understand how the designPH results compare and fit together with the PHPP.
- Analyze designPH detailed results including shading masks, yearly heating energy demand and detailed surface level heat flows and how they impact overall building energy performance.
Prerequisites/required knowledge and equipment/softwares:
- 120A Passive House Design and Construction and 120B Understanding & Working with PHPP
- designPH 2.2
- PHPP Licence (newest version update)
- SketchUp software (version 2023-2025)
Instructor Bio:
Marcel Studer – Certified Passive House Designer, Certified Passive House Tradesperson, and Passive House Canada instructor. Marcel is the Principal of Econ Group Ltd, a Vancouver based construction firm with a strong focus on modern, high quality architecture designed to the International Passive House Standard. Holding a Masters Degree in Architecture from the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich (Switzerland), Marcel has lived and worked in Canada for 25 years. Marcel completed the Passive House Design course in 2011 and has been involved in multiple Passive House projects in and around Vancouver as a project manager, consultant or designer. In 2023 Marcel became a Certified PH-Building Certifier. Marcel has been teaching Passive House Courses since 2017.
Course Fee
Non-Member – $924
PHC Member – $800
Bundle and Save: Buy the course with designPH 2.2 software
Non-Member – $1,234
PHC Member – $1,129
Professional Development
Self-reporting basis for industry-related associations
PHI Credit Points: 16
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Note: This course will be available for 6 months after the purchase date.
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