How well do you actually know building science?
Ten questions at Certified Passivhaus Designer level. About four minutes. No easy points. Score yourself instantly, then we send the full worked reasoning by email.
Written by Mosart, a practising Passivhaus team. Criteria reflect the common Classic, cool-temperate cases; some thresholds vary by climate and certification class.
That was one insight. There are nine more.
We will send the reasoning behind every question, with the consequence each one carries on a real project, plus a short reading list and a few words on the CPHD course. No spam.
The reasoning, and why each one matters
The answer is the easy part. The second paragraph is where the design judgement lives.
A way of seeing buildings.
The ten facts are the easy part. What separates designers whose buildings actually perform is judgement: knowing which detail decides the outcome, where to spend and where to stop, why a model passes but a building fails. That is what the Certified Passivhaus Designer course builds.
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What the benchmark covers.
TopicsThe gap between knowing and understanding.
Every year thousands of designers pass Passivhaus courses. Not all of them carry the understanding into the detail stage. This benchmark is a way to draw the line in private, before it matters on a project.
We wrote it at CPHD level because that is the standard that closes the performance gap. If you are studying for the PHI exam, it is a useful calibration. If you already hold the qualification, it will tell you where to sharpen.