All architects hoping to design to the Passive House standard need to know how to use The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP). This book provides much needed supplementary guidance for purchasers of the PHPP, placing the standard within the UK context, and is a concise, user-friendly, highly and attractively illustrated step by step book for practitioners and students who want to use the PHPP as a design tool.

By improving their in-use understanding of the PHPP, this guide enables readers to fully comprehend their scheme in terms of the impact of orientation, envelope shape, ratio-to-floor area, fabric build-ups, fenestration ratio and shading effects on the energy balance; essential criteria for all low energy buildings.

Fully-updated to support the latest version of the PHPP, this essential guide is endorsed by the Passivhaus Institute and will act as an invaluable gateway for brand new as well as more experienced PHPP users.

About the Author
Sarah Lewis is a Certified European Passivhaus Designer and Associate Architect - Sustainability at Hamson Barron Smith, where she is delivering and working on some of the UK's largest Passivhaus developments. She has lectured on Passivhaus and the PHPP and been a guest critic at a number of architecture schools. She has spoken at conferences including the International Passivhaus Conferences in Innsbruck 2011, Leipzig 2015 and Vienna 2017 and participated in conference panel and industry debates on sustainability. And in 2015 had the honour of being one of the international judges for MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence Climate CoLab Buildings contest. In recognition of Sarah's contributions to UK low energy architecture, she was named one of the top 20 women leading the way in sustainable architecture in the first annual Architect's Journal list 2013 and awarded Constructing Excellence Achiever of the Year, for the East of England, 2015.


Book Information
ISBN 9781859467756
Author Sarah Lewis
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint RIBA Publishing
Publisher RIBA Publishing