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Welcome
The passive house concept is an approved concept of very low-energy buildings, and already successfully applied on large scale in Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland... In this segment of the website we want to introduce this concept. We immediately give answers to some of the most frequently asked questions.

PHP
The Passiefhuis-Platform (shortcut: PHP) was set up to introduce the passive house concept the Belgian region. In this section you can find brief information about our organization, its founding, its members, …

Gecertificeerde projecten vlnr: Laarne (arch. A. Versele), Wijtschate (arch. denc!-studio),Vosselaar (arch. B. Deschoolmeester),Torhout (arch. G. Sabbe)

Services
We are motivating all participating parties and stimulating innovations. This means that PHP supports everyone involved in a project following the passive house standards. We offer our services to private builders, architects, companies and the government. We are also stimulating innovations in order to push ahead low-energy buildings. If your company has innovation plans concerning low-energy building, we accompany you both administratively and technically.

Database
Our goal is not only simply sensitizing people. We also offer concrete, practical information. Are you looking for a solution for a certain aspect in your project? Then you may look in our database. On this page you can find some of our publications concerning the passive house concept, as well as some documentation on a few exemplary projects and the 'Passiefhuis Platform vzw'.

Gecertificeerde projecten vlnr: School De Zande te Beernem (arch. Buro II), Waarloos (arch. J. Akkermans), Bocholt (arch. E. Ubachs), kantoor 'Havenbedrijf' in Gent (evr-architecten)

News
We keep track of the news, which is necessary if you are on the top of low-energy building. If some relevant news concerning low-energy building appears somewhere, you'll find it right here, as well as our own announcements. The most interesting news is also immediately put on the homepage. In the archive you can browse for older news items.

Events
There are a lot of activities concerning low-energy building everywhere, but the information is scarcely concentrated. We offer an overview. Of course we also organize activities ourselves, which you can find here as well. In addition, you can browse the archive too.

Gecertificeerde projecten vlnr: Heusden-Destelbergen (arch. denc!-studio), Heusden-Zolder (arch. E. Ubachs), Ename (arch. C. Debrabander), School De Zande te Beernem (arch. Buro II)

Register
PHP offers various services. The registration is necessary for some of them. To make you registration effective, you will find all needed forms in this section for subscribing for the newsletter and becoming a member. In addition, you can purchase books and PHPP-software.

Contact
If you wish to contact us, and need to find out our address, a road map, the employees, the board of directors, ... this is the place to be.