Would your building science pass at CPHD level?
Sixteen questions at Certified Passivhaus Designer level. About six minutes. No easy points. See where you stand, in private, before it matters on a project, 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.
Where the gaps are
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We will email the worked reasoning for all sixteen questions: the correct answer, the standard each rests on, and what it costs on a real project, plus a short reading list. One email, and you can unsubscribe in a click.
The reasoning, and why each one matters
The answer is the easy part. The second paragraph is where the design judgement lives.
Design with certainty, not hope.
The facts are the easy part. What separates designers whose buildings actually perform is judgement: 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, and what gets you specified and asked back. 98% of our students pass the PHI exam.
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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.