Tested. Proven. Consistent energy and performance outcomes.

A comfort standard. A quality standard. An energy standard with 25 years of successful built examples around the world. That is why we have used Passivhaus to inform the design of over 200 homes, schools, workplaces, cultural buildings, swimming pools, public buildings, and retrofits spanning over 50,000 sqm.

A proven ability to design out performance gaps has saved our clients over 7,000 tonnes of CO2e in operational carbon to date and driven down their energy costs. while delivering healthy comfortable environments that maximise wellbeing.

Passivhaus

Hugh is our Passivhaus lead with expertise delivering some of the country's most ambitious and challenging Passivhaus and EnerPHit buildings.

Hugh Pearce

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Passivhaus Design

Our experience shows that Passivhaus is the only energy standard that fully guarantees the quality, comfort, and performance of your building.

We have an industry-leading expert team of in-house Passivhaus designers that have cross-sector experience in designing successful Passivhaus certified buildings. Our team is trained to assess buildings in the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP), an energy balance and planning tool developed by the Passivhaus Institute in Germany. This ensures that your project is providing the correct information for certifiers throughout the design process.

Passivhaus Consultancy

Turning ambition into design performance reassurance.

As expectations for building performance grow, we understand the importance of certainty — knowing that design intent will translate into real comfort, efficiency, and cost savings. Passivhaus offers a trusted framework to achieve these goals with confidence.

We bring rigour and clarity to every stage, using evidence to guide decisions that help optimise design and performance. Whether or not certification is the goal, our expertise ensures your project performs as designed — efficient, comfortable, and resilient.

EnerPHit Design

Consistent exemplar comfort, quality, and performance outcomes for existing buildings.

EnerPHit is the Passivhaus certification standard for retrofit projects. The performance criteria for EnerPHit is slightly adjusted to make certification more attainable in existing buildings. Nevertheless, achieving the standard requires a detailed understanding of existing building construction typologies, material compatibility and appropriate technical detailing solutions alongside a high level of skill in resolving inherent thermal bridge issues that cannot be designed out.

BIM to Passivhaus Planning Package

Connecting software to streamline project delivery.

Leading the way in technical design and BIM, Architype have developed a series of workflows to integrate Passivhaus and Revit to ensure accurate inputs into the PHPP model and deliver Passivhaus certainty at the earliest stages of design. We have worked closely with certifiers to ensure a fluid flow of clear information that supports the Passivhaus design and certification process. This enables us to efficiently deliver Passivhaus design and provides the most accurate predictions possible utilising the PHPP process at each design stage.