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--- planning:calculating_energy_efficiency:phpp_-_the_passive_house_planning_package:phpp_8 [2014/09/18 18:19] – external edit 127.0.0.1
+++ planning:calculating_energy_efficiency:phpp_-_the_passive_house_planning_package:phpp_8 [2024/04/26 12:05] (current) – [User-friendliness and compatibility] yaling.hsiao@passiv.de
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 ====== PHPP 8 ======
-**Worldwide applicability, added functions, improved user-friendliness and compatibility**
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 In light of the constantly growing number of product certifications, the current availability of specific data on certified Passive House components is becoming increasingly important. To ensure that the component lists integrated in the PHPP are up-to-date regardless of program updates, a central component sheet that can be regularly updated was created. The component sheet contains all of the specific information on:
   * Wall and building systems or floor slab insulation systems
   * Glazing
   * Unordered List ItemOrdered List ItemWindow frames, post-and-beam façades, skylights, and roof windows
   * Unordered List ItemCompact heat pump units
 ===== User-friendliness and compatibility =====
-To further improve user-friendliness and make the user interface easier to navigate, a number of entry areas were restructured and expanded. In addition, the PHPP was tested in other spreadsheet programs and operating systems, such as in Excel on Mac OS and in OpenOffice, to fix the problems that used to occur and make it possible to use PHPP calculations on various platforms around the world.
-The PHPP is still based on Excel, and the algorithms – which are open by principle – have been retained; the result of the calculation is immediately available without a noticeable delay. The data interface that has proven so successfully also allows the results to be used in other software applications. Architects, engineers, and energy consultants are thus able to optimize design and components based on clear numbers.
+The PHPP is based on a MS-Excel-workbook in the xlsx-/xlsm-format. __Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Excel 2013 (or higher)__ are system requirements. On Macintosh, PHPP works with __Excel for Mac 2016 (or higher)__. As far as the authors are aware, the PHPP can also be used with current versions of LibreOffice, __however without support of the implemented macro tools, e.g. for the data import__. __In general__, depending on the platforms __used as spreadsheet program__, their programming __or general settings__, there may be limited functionality of the calculation tool or the additional macro tools. The data interface that has proven so successfully also allows the results to be used in other software applications. Architects, engineers, and energy consultants are thus able to optimize design and components based on clear numbers.
-To simplify the process of entering data into PHPP and to provide preliminary feedback on the performance of the design within Sketchup PHI developed the **"designPH" plugin**.\\
+To simplify the process of entering data into PHPP and to provide preliminary feedback on the performance of the design within Sketchup PHI developed the **"designPH" plugin**.
-[[planning:calculating_energy_efficiency:phpp_-_the_passive_house_planning_package:designPH plugin|Read more...]]
+[[.:designph_plugin|Read more...]]