Tim Martel

Tim Martel is a UK-based freelance Chartered Architectural Technologist, Passivhaus Designer and Retrofit Coordinator with a background in calculations through commercial R&D. He has been a Passivhaus Designer for 6 years, working on new houses and the new Passivhaus Garway community centre. He uses the latest features of PHPP, is an expert of PHPP and the advanced variants feature and has written the PHribbon tool to make it faster. He spoke at the
2018 International Passivhaus Conference in Munich and worked extensively with the Association for Environment Conscious Building (AECB) in energy/cost calculations for their Carbonlite Retrofit Course, which were done in a modified version of PHPP. Many students asked if they could have a version of the economics software they could use on their own projects, and after some development he produced ‘REALcosting’ and then ‘PHribbon’ software
for the AECB. He is currently a tutor for the AECB for the Economics and Building Physics/Case studies modules. As a Chartered Architectural Technologist Tim is an expert in Revit – a 3D drawing package at the forefront of the latest BIM approach to drawing. He combines that with expertise in UK
Building Regulations to ensure buildings not only meet minimum standards, but exceed them in terms of energy performance.