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Certified Passive House Designer Course

In this course you will gain the foundational Passive House design and construction knowledge necessary to prepare you to tackle your first Passive House project as well as write the Certified Passive House Consultant exam.

Upcoming: Certified Passive House Designer Course

Jan 16
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The CPHD Course consist of the three following individual courses bundled together in one:

Click on the links to learn more about each course.
Passive House Design and Construction Sessions

These live virtual sessions will be for 4 hours and cover the standard 4-day Passive House Design and Construction course.
The sessions will be split up into 8 x 4 hour sessions.

Note: the sessions will be recorded and made available for participants if they are unable to join the live session.

Online PHPP course

Using PHPP for Passive House Design and Construction. The course is online and self-paced.

CPHD Exam Prep

Access to the course CPHC/D Exam prep on the Peel School of Passive House online platform to prepare students to write the CPHC/D exam.The course is online and self-paced.

Format
Cohort
start date
April 23 2024
duration
68 hours
time
9:30am - 1:30pm EDT
price
$2500
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Dates for this course:

The sessions will be Tuesday and Thursdays 9:30am - 1:30pm  EDT

April 23, 25, 30, May 2, 7, 9, 14 and 16


15% discount for the first 5 registered applicants for this course

Get Trained by Instructors with Extensive Project Experience

Project:

Riverside Drive

Client:

Windsor Essex Community Housing Corporation

Location:

Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Year of Construction

2021

Service Provided:

Passive House Consultancy

Highlight:

A 20-storey community housing retrofit project of a 1970s apartment building. The existing apartment building is being retrofitted in four phases to the EnerPHit standard. This is the world's first Stepwise EnerPHit project of a highrise building. Additionally, the building is being occupied during construction work.

Meet Your Instructors

Andrew Peel

MSc
Founder, President, Accredited Passive House Certifier and Trainer

Andrew is a seasoned Passive House trainer, consultant, and building certifier accredited by the German Passive House Institute. His professional and academic experience ranges from consultancy, programme management, technical and non-technical articles and publications, course and lecture delivery, and technical research. He has been delivering high quality educational courses for over 22 years, including 13 years of Passive House training, both for Passive House Canada and independently.

Andrew has a tremendous depth of knowledge and experience in building energy performance and technology assessment and modelling. This includes managing the UK Government’s innovative carbon saving technologies scheme and the Energy Saving Trust’s Best Practice Helpline. He also had the good fortune of working at the Passive House Institute, developing algorithms for the PHPP. Andrew is a former founding board member of Passive House Canada and tireless, passionate advocate for Passive House.

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Stephen Quinn

BEng
Accredited PH Certifier, Certified Passive House Designer and Trainer

Stephen is an accredited Passive House Certifier and certified Passive House Designer with over 13 years’ experience in the industry. His interest in the Passive House industry was sparked through an internship in Germany with a leading Passive House consulting company, where he went on to become a project manager. Stephen comes from an engineering background, having completed a Civil Engineering degree in the UK.

Being at the forefront of the Passive House movement Stephen has gained firsthand experience working on some of the largest Passive House buildings worldwide. With projects ranging from hotels to museums he has gained a wealth of knowledge in applying the Passive House principles to numerous types of buildings.

Stephen has a great deal of international experience having worked on Passive House projects in a number of countries including Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He recently had the role as Passive House project manager for one of central London’s first certified social housing developments.

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Melissa Furakawa

MBSc
Accredited PH Certifier, Certified Passive House Designer, Trainer & Component Assessor

Melissa is a Passive House Designer with experience in low energy building design and analysis. She completed her Master of Building Science degree at Ryerson University. Melissa has worked on a variety of projects all over the world designing buildings that are climate-responsive by incorporating passive design elements to maximize user comfort while minimizing energy use. She has extensive experience in Passive House design, energy modelling, thermal bridge modelling, as well as various other engineering analyses.

Melissa is a Certified Passive House Designer and Accredited Passive House Certifier with 6 years of experience in the Passive House Industry. At Peel Passive House, Melissa supports the company's building certification, consultancy, training and component certification. As the training manager, Melissa overseas all of the courses as well as organizes new course, develops new content and manages the training platform.

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David Fraser

Certified Passive House Consultant and Trainer

Dave is a Certified Passive House Consultant with experience in energy efficient building design and construction. He earned his Advanced Diploma in Sustainable Energy and Building Technology from Humber College and graduated with a keen interest in Passive House buildings after working on an EnerPHit project in his capstone course. Since then, he has worked on a variety of projects, analyzing, and implementing energy efficient design in all building systems. Dave has experience in both PHPP and dynamic energy modeling, as well as 2D and 3D thermal modelling.

Dave is a Certified Passive House Consultant and Trainer with 3 years of experience in the Passive House industry. At Peel Passive House, Dave manages consulting projects including multi-family residential, non-residential, and mixed-use; both new construction and retrofit. He also supports the PeelPHC Certification team.

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Kelly Fisher

Accredited PH Certifier, Certified Passive House Consultant, Trainer & PHPP Expert

Kelly is a Passive House Consultant with experience in low energy building design and analysis. She has hands on experience with design and construction, and a keen interest in building sustainably. She has extensive experience in energy modelling, thermal modeling, project management, as well as various other energy and costing analyses.

Kelly is a Certified Passive House Consultant 7 years of experience in the Passive House Industry, also has her PHPP Expert accreditation, Retrofit Accreditation, and is also an Accredited Passive House Trainer and Certifier. At Peel Passive House, Kelly supports the company's certification, consultancy, thermal modelling, training, and research activities.

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Get training from the most respected consultants in the field

Our trainers are active consultants working on pioneering projects within the industry.  Our breadth and depth of experience with different project types are unmatched by other training providers.

Get the latest developments from the industry

Our course content is continually updated to ensure relevancy.Go beyond theory – gain practical knowledge that can be applied immediately.

Engage in a world class course with leading-edge material.

Our training methodology has been finely honed over years to deliver training to diverse learners. The right foundation to prepare for the CPHC exam.

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