Welcome to the MosArt Certified Passive House Designer course!
The leading trainer of certified passive house designers worldwide. Our Certified Passive House Designer Course provides students with the latest principles of energy-efficient design, teaching them how to create comfortable, sustainable, and high-performance buildings.
With over 2500 trained students and involvement in 3 million square feet of high-performance building projects, we offer a unique perspective on sustainable design.
Our expertise and experience make us the leading trainer of the Certified Passive House Designer Course globally, ensuring our students are best positioned for a successful career in sustainable architecture and design. Join us today and take the first step towards a successful career in sustainable design.
Who is the Certified Passive House Designer Course for?
This course is aimed at ALL building design and consulting professionals, including Architects and Engineers, Contractors and Builders.
Duration & Cost:
9 half-day ‘live’ webinar modules led by Tomás O’Leary, from 9am (sharp) to 2pm, followed by 3 days-equivalent self guided e-learning.
- Fee: €2780 (VAT exempt)
- Accreditations: Certified Passive House Designer/Consultant – PHI & RIAI
- CPD Points: 45\
How It Works
9 x Live Webinar Sessions
Attend a series of nine ‘live’ (not pre-recorded) webinar modules led by MosArt Director Tomás O’Leary. Each module deals with a central theme of high performance buildings and consists of a five hour session from 9am to 2pm with two 15 minute coffee breaks part-way.
Self Guided eLearning
These eLearning hours can be done at your own pace. You’ll need to invest the equivalent of about three days on the on-line exam preparation course, so about a half-day per week over the course of 4 weeks should do it.
Exam
The programme culminates with the Certified Passive House Designer exam, a 3-hour ‘open-book’ (bring all your notes!) exam.
Certification!
On passing the exam, you’ll (a) receive a formal certificate from the German Passive House Institute and (b) find yourself listed on the global map and database of Certified Passive House Designers
15 years of industry know-how at your fingertips – join us now!
Course Dates
- Tuesday,23rd January 2024 – Day 1: Principles and Performance Standards
- Wednesday, 24th January 2024 – Day 2: Highly Insulated & Thermal-Bridge-Free Envelopes
- Thursday, 25th January 2024 – Day 3: Superior Airtightness & Vapour Control
- Tuesday, 30th January 2024 – Day 4: Windows for Energy Balancing & Comfort
- Wednesday, 31st January 2024 – Day 5: Delivering Indoor Air Quality through Active Ventilation
- Thursday, 1st February 2024 – Day 6: Next Generation Heating, Domestic Hot Water and Cooling
- Tuesday, 6th February 2024 – Day 7: Renewable Energy, Economics, Quality Assurance & Certification
- Wednesday, 7th February 2024 – Day 8: Passive House Planning Package Part 1
- Thursday, 8th February 2024 – Day 9: Passive House Planning Package Part 2
CPHD Online Exam – 28th February 2024
Format of the Certified Passive House Designer Course:
The following format is used for this on-line Certified Passive House Designer Course:
- Series of nine ‘live’ (not pre-recorded) webinar modules led by MosArt Director Tomás O’Leary.
- Each module deals with a central theme of high performance buildings and consists of a five hour session from 9am to 2pm with two 15 minute coffee breaks part-way.
- We’re using what we feel is the best webinar tool available for professional and reliable online education in this field, namely Zoom. It allows us to issue quizzes and polls along the way to check your progress and also to issue additional materials throughout the course.
- At the end of each module, you’ll receive a link to watch a full video recording of that session. So, fear not if you have to put the cat out or if there’s yet another baking-emergency in the kitchen.
- The last two modules of the course deal with the cool Sketchup plug-in software ‘designPH’ used to design Passive House projects in 3-D as well as the latest version of the Passive House Planning Package energy modelling tool used to fine-tune your project.
- Once the nine webinar modules have been completed, you will then complete our online self-guided exam preparation modules over a four week period leading up to the Certified Passive House Designer Online Exam
- You’ll need to invest the equivalent of about three days on the on-line exam preparation course, so about a half-day per week should do it.
- The exam preparation course includes presentation videos, calculation exercises, true-false questions and a Passive House design assignment which you’ll scan/photograph and send to us for personalised review. We’ll be with you every step of the way.
- The programme culminates with the Certified Passive House Designer exam, a 3-hour ‘open-book’ (bring all your notes!) exam.
- On passing the exam, you’ll (a) receive a formal certificate from the German Passive House Institute and (b) find yourself listed on the global map and database of Certified Passive House Designers (see map of designers here)
15 years of industry know-how at your fingertips – join us now!
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Training, Software and Exam Fees:
The overall course fee is €2780 (VAT exempt) and includes the following:
- All of the above-listed live webinar modules by Tomás O’Leary.
- Digital copy of both the training manual and the PHPP Version 10 (software) manual.
- Full access to the on-line self-directed exam preparation course with learning support and personalised reviews from our dedicated expert educators.
- Your own fully-registered copy of the latest version of the Passive House energy modelling software (PHPP Version 10).
- A download link to a free demo-version with some limitations of the 3-d modelling tool ‘designPH’. If you really enjoy that tool, you can buy the full version directly from the Passive House Institute.
- Passive House exam fee (worth €350), including international accreditation and listing on passing the exam.
- Personalised RIAI (or other) CPD cert covering 45 hours formal education.
