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Life cycle as­sess­ments are more than com­pli­ance tools: They high­light the im­pact of high-ef­fi­ciency design meas­ures and sup­port bet­ter de­cision-mak­ing throughout the plan­ning pro­cess. The work­shop in­tro­duces the Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te's meth­od­o­logy which fo­cuses on the en­ergy de­mand and green­house gas emis­sions as­so­ci­ated with con­struct­ing and op­er­at­ing a build­ing. In the prac­tic­al part of the work­shop, par­ti­cipants will work hands-on with the Man­u­fac­tur­ing En­ergy Ev­al­u­ation Tool (MEET) to ana­lyse and ev­al­u­ate ma­ter­i­als and build­ing com­pon­ents. This makes it easy to see how both man­u­fac­tur­ing and op­er­a­tion­al en­ergy - as well as life cycle green­house gas emis­sions - can be re­duced over the life cycle.

The work­shop fly­er will be­come avail­able here soon

In the wake of glob­al warm­ing, the top­ic of pre­vent­ing over­heat­ing in build­ings is be­com­ing in­creas­ingly im­port­ant, es­pe­cially since high in­door tem­per­at­ures are not only a ques­tion of com­fort, but can also have a sig­ni­fic­ant im­pact on health. A build­ing's design has a fun­da­ment­al in­flu­en­ce on the thermal com­fort achieved in sum­mer and its ro­bust­ness and re­si­li­en­ce against the risk of over­heat­ing dur­ing heat waves. PHPP and design­PH are use­ful plan­ning tools for the op­tim­isa­tion pro­cess dur­ing the design phase. Due to rising out­door tem­per­at­ures, act­ive cool­ing is be­com­ing in­creas­ingly ne­ces­sary also in cli­mates where this was pre­vi­ously not needed. In en­ergy-ef­fi­cient build­ings, this can be achieved in a cli­mate-friendly man­ner with very low en­ergy con­sump­tion and should be taken in­to ac­count by de­sign­ers as part of their for­ward-look­ing plan­ning. This work­shop will dive in­to sum­mer com­fort design strategies for new build­ings and ret­ro­fits, in­clud­ing prac­tic­al guid­ance for pass­ive cool­ing meas­ures and how to mod­el this in PHPP, stress test­ing re­si­li­ent design and re­com­mend­a­tions for ef­fi­cient tem­per­ing and cool­ing sys­tems. The con­tent is in­ten­ded for build­ings in cool-tem­per­ate and warm-tem­per­ate cli­mates.

The work­shop fly­er will be­come avail­able here soon