New tool to ease certification of smaller passive schemes

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Launched in beta form, easyPH is a new tool based on the current version of the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) software, PHPP 10.6, and is applicable for new build schemes of up to two dwellings.

The new tool offers reduced and simplified inputs for the energy balance calculation required in PHPP, and guidelines and resources for the necessary inputs.

The new tool only has eight worksheets, with the main input worksheet being easyPH, which works with a set of standardised assumptions to reduce the number of inputs required for the overall building energy calculation. easyPH fully follows the PHPP methodology.

Designed to work with the with Sketchup- based passive house plug-in designPH, all the necessary inputs for components and geometry can be imported from designPH.

The beta version of easyPH is included in the master-bundle of PHPP 10.6, and will initially be made available in English only.