Terms and con­di­tions

» Pre­amble

The 28^th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce takes place at the "Haus der Tech­nik" in Es­sen on 24 and 25 April 2026. The present­a­tions will be ac­cess­ible on de­mand for all par­ti­cipants after the con­fer­en­ce. Fur­ther­more, con­fer­en­ce at­tendees can vis­it the ac­com­pa­ny­ing Pass­ive House Ex­hib­i­tion in the same build­ing on 24 and 25 April 2026.

Ad­di­tion­al op­tions: On Sat­urday, 25 April 2026, the In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House As­so­ci­ation hosts the iPHA Din­ner which provides ample op­por­tun­it­ies for net­work­ing. Fur­ther­more, on Sunday, 26 April 2026, there will be build­ing tours to Pass­ive House pro­jects in the sur­round­ing area. On Thursday, 23 April 2026, ad­di­tion­al work­shops will be held. Tick­ets for the ad­di­tion­al op­tions must be pur­chased sep­ar­ately.

All events or­gan­ised in or around Es­sen as part of the 28^th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce 2026 will be car­ried out only if of­fi­cial or­ders re­gard­ing dis­ease con­trol meas­ures and lim­it­a­tions due to in­fec­tion oc­cur­rences are not op­posed to a safe and prop­er ex­e­cu­tion of the event.

» Tick­et pur­chase

The tick­et pur­chase must be sub­mit­ted via the on­line tick­et shop. By buy­ing a tick­et, a con­tract with the or­gan­ising body is agreed upon. The or­gan­ising body and con­tract­ing party is the Passivhaus Institut GmbH, Rheinstraße 44/46, Darmstadt, Germany.

The tick­et pur­chase is bind­ing and will be pro­cessed in the or­der in which the pur­chases are re­ceived. The num­ber of par­ti­cipants is lim­ited. After the tick­et pur­chase and the im­me­di­ate pay­ment via the ser­vices offered, an in­voice will be is­sued which will be sent to the par­ti­cipant by email and can be down­loaded in the on­line tick­et shop. Con­fer­en­ce tick­ets can - as long as there are still seats avail­able - be pur­chased in the on­line tick­et shop un­til 17 April 2026. The early book­ing dis­count can only be gran­ted if the re­gis­tra­tion is made be­fore or on 15 Janu­ary 2026 and pay­ment is com­pleted by 15 Janu­ary 2026. Only those who have paid the full ap­plic­able fees ac­cord­ing to the se­lec­ted tick­et will be ad­mit­ted to the con­fer­en­ce.

» Can­cel­la­tions

Un­til 15 Janu­ary 2026, tick­et can­cel­la­tions are sub­ject to a fee of 10 % of the tick­et price. All tick­et can­cel­la­tions per­formed on or after 16 Janu­ary 2026 will in­cur a fee equal to 30 % of the cor­res­pond­ing tick­et price. From 10 April 2026 on­wards, tick­et can­cel­la­tions will in­cur a fee equal to 50 % of the cor­res­pond­ing tick­et price.

The con­fer­en­ce tick­et and all con­fer­en­ce ad­mis­sion doc­u­ments are non-trans­fer­able un­less this right is gran­ted by the or­gan­iser in writ­ing. All of­fers made avail­able can only be used by con­fer­ence par­ti­cipants with a val­id con­fer­en­ce tick­et us­ing the cor­res­pond­ing per­son­al e-mail ad­dress.

» Scope of ser­vices

The con­fer­en­ce tick­et in­cludes ac­cess to all present­a­tions giv­en at the 28^th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce at the "Haus der Tech­nik" in Es­sen, tem­por­ary ac­cess to the on-de­mand ses­sion rec­ord­ings af­ter­ the event as well as free en­try to the ac­com­pa­ny­ing Pass­ive House trade ex­hib­i­tion and the ex­hib­i­tion party on 24 April 2026. Ca­ter­ing dur­ing the event on 24 and 25 April 2026 is also in­cluded.

The hy­giene, in­fec­tion pro­tec­tion and safety reg­u­la­tions in force at the time of the event must be fol­lowed. Meas­ures to be fol­lowed ac­cord­ingly will be an­nounced in good time be­fore the start of the con­fer­en­ce and can be ad­ap­ted if ne­ces­sary.

» Can­cel­la­tion, lim­it­a­tion of li­ab­il­ity

The or­gan­iser re­serves the right to make ne­ces­sary changes to the pro­gramme. If the 28^th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce or the sup­port­ing pro­gramme have to be par­tially or com­pletely can­celled, the par­ti­cipants will be im­me­di­ately no­ti­fied. Already paid tick­et fees will be re­fun­ded. Fur­ther claims against the or­gan­iser do not ap­ply.

» Data stor­age

For the pur­poses of par­ti­cipant ad­min­is­tra­tion and the im­ple­ment­a­tion of the events, the data entered by par­ti­cipants in the on­line tick­et shop when pur­chas­ing a con­fer­en­ce tick­et for the 28^th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce and/or its sup­port­ing pro­gramme will be pro­cessed by the Passivhaus In­sti­tut GmbH as well as by ser­vice pro­viders com­mis­sioned by it with­in the frame­work of the con­fer­en­ce. No fur­ther data will be passed on to third parties. Dur­ing the re­gis­tra­tion pro­cess, par­ti­cipants have to con­firm that they have read and agree with the Privacy Policy of the Passivhaus In­sti­tut GmbH.

» Photo and film ma­ter­i­al

Dur­ing the 28th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­ence and the ac­com­pa­ny­ing pro­gramme (work­shops, even­ing events, ex­cur­sions), the Passivhaus In­sti­tut GmbH, its net­works, its me­dia and co­oper­a­tion part­ners, and third parties com­mis­sioned by the Passivhaus In­sti­tut GmbH may take pho­tos and videos of the par­ti­cipants. The photo and film ma­ter­i­al will be stored and may be pub­lished on the web­sites, so­cial me­dia chan­nels and in the (print) pub­lic­a­tions of the Passivhaus In­sti­tut GmbH, its net­works and its me­dia and co­oper­a­tion part­ners for the pur­pose of pub­lic re­la­tions and dis­sem­in­a­tion of the Pass­ive House Stand­ard. The right of use is un­lim­ited in terms of time and loc­a­tion and is per­petu­al. The Passivhaus In­sti­tut GmbH may pass on the photo and film ma­ter­i­al to the me­dia and part­ners for pub­lic re­la­tions pur­poses.