We provide targeted education for design and construction professionals who want to create better quality, healthier, more energy-efficient buildings. We offer certification courses for Passive House designers or tradespersons, custom training and a mix of learning modes (in-person and online on-demand).
Passive House Academy New Zealand is now owned and operated by Sustainable Engineering. Courses are highly regarded: read what course participants have to say about the training courses they have undertaken.
Courses available:
Master the art of the retrofit: Become a certified expert
We all know the stats. A massive portion of the housing stock across Australia and New Zealand is shockingly poor—cold, damp, and profoundly unhealthy. Fixing these thermal wrecks is the...
Certified Passive House Tradesperson: Online Training
Adlux Cohort (18 August 2026 – 15 September 2026) High-performance construction demands a level of precision and technical knowledge beyond standard building codes. This course provides the specialized skills and...
Certified Passive House Designer/Consultant – Exam preparation course (CEPH2)
Preparation for the externally assessed exam to become a Certified Passive House Designer/Consultant is available as an online course. There will be 4 self-directed weeks of online learning, and 12...
Practical Passive House Design: From Concept to Certification
Master the workflow. Avoid the traps. Deliver high-performance homes with confidence. The team at Sustainable Engineering New Zealand’s leading Passive House certifiers has developed a specialised training programme designed to...
Certified Passive House Designer/Consultant – Introduction (CEPH1)
This entry-level course is a 9-week online introduction to designing healthy, energy-efficient homes. It will help students to understand the leading order factors in building energy use, and enable them...
Advanced Thermal Bridging Course
Avoiding or minimising thermal bridging is a key pillar of Passive House design and a vital skill for a Passive House designer or architect. Not all thermal bridges need to...
designPH
Supercharge your designPH skills for faster, more accurate PHPP models! Our designPH course is now available online in a self-paced, on-demand format. Competence in designPH is an important and necessary...
Passive House Champion
This course equips Passive House professionals with the materials and approach needed to confidently explain the Passive House concept, persuade those that can be persuaded, shift thinking about appropriate performance...
Advanced PHPP, including EnerPHit and non-residential modelling
This course furthers Passive House designers’ expertise, extending their skills in the design of PHI-certified building projects. The course includes non-residential and EnerPHit projects as well as family homes, plus...
The Carbonator—a free carbon calculator tool for Passive House designers
Sustainable Engineering Ltd has released The Carbonator, a tool its team built for calculating building embodied and operational carbon emissions, so it can be used by all Passive House designers....
Heat pumps in PHPP
Heat pump modelling has become more difficult since PHPP version 10 disallowed the entry of standard data. The tool PHI designed to assist doesn’t work well for New Zealand and...