PCA’s PHIUS Workflow

Benefit from PCA’s project experience and use this tool to inform and amend a standard project delivery process, avoid doubling back on design thinking and integrate PHIUS certification into your project flow.

This is a high-level diagram that guides project teams new to Passive House design and certification, providing context upfront about specific benchmarks and design development timing. It illustrates critical moments that inform + amend a standard project delivery process.

The mapped-out benchmarks indicate an idealized scenario in relation to the design phases. The key moments will push and pull to meet the project-specific needs along individual timelines, and it is most important to note the intentional order of each decision, deliverable and benchmark. Understanding and applying this flow appropriately to your project schedule streamlines the design process, keeps the project moving forward in an informed efficient way and brings everyone along on decisions and cost prior to bidding and construction.

This resource can help you and your team ask appropriate questions at the start of a Passive House project and prepare you for what is coming throughout. As a high-level resource, we recommend that you take some time, review, and consider how it applies to your project. Follow up with a PCA’er to chat about your questions and how to layer this thinking in.

It’s not hard work. It’s team work!