01.11.2026

Key New Features

• R-Value Setting – A new global setting lets you use R-values instead of U-values, alongside the existing R/inch setting, so you can work in the format you prefer.

Main Improvements

• Dynamic Shading Warning – METr now alerts you when a Phius project requires a dynamic shading calculation, making this requirement easier to catch.
• Clearer SketchUp Import – We’ve removed the misleading “Set Zone Volume / Floor Area calculated from geometry” checkbox from the import options to avoid confusion.
• Calculation Handling – We’ve improved how METr handles calculations internally.

Bug Fixes

• Project Switching – Fixed a temporary error that could occur when opening another saved project while the “Case” node in the project tree had focus.
• Envelope Area Consistency – Fixed a discrepancy between the envelope area shown in component visualizations and the area shown in the report.
• Ground-Contact Components – Removed the “Exterior door” setting for components whose outer side is in contact with the ground.
• Location Map – Fixed an issue on the location map when no building site was selected.

30.09.2026

Key New Features

• Country in User-Defined Climate Database – Climate entries now include a country, which you can also edit later, making custom climate data easier to organize and find and set default values like source energy factors.

Main Improvements

• Revised Component Area List and Summary Report – The component area list and component summary report have been reworked and include all different component types so you can review and verify component areas more clearly.
• Clearer Shading Warning for Phius Certification – The detailed shading warning now tells you when shading calculation is not active for Phius certification, so you can catch the gap before it affects your results.
• Updated Default Climate Data for New Projects – New projects now start with default additional climate data like ground conditions and ground water flow rate and depth. Default additional data also stay if a climate is used from database, with this data not set.

Bug Fixes

• Non-Residential Bedroom Error – Non-residential buildings no longer trigger the “Number of bedrooms is not set” error.
• Database Name Fallback – If your account user name can’t be retrieved, the database name now shows “User” instead of appearing blank.
• Visualization Coloring – Remaining components stay grey in the visualization.

18.09.2026

Bug Fixes

• Material & AssemblyDatabase – Resolved an issue where creating materials or assemblies sometimes failed, most notably in the Japanese version, and fixed cases where layer material names weren’t displaying correctly.
• Climate Database – Corrected default value handling and import additional climate data from database
• Site Energy Report – Corrected the color coding for monthly electricity and gas consumption so your energy use charts read accurately at a glance.
• Building Time Zone – The building time zone input now displays correctly on the UI, even when the building and weather station coordinates differ.
• Foundation Interface – Improved automatic detection of foundation components and corrected thermal conductivity calculations to properly apply your R/inch global setting.
• Calculation & Interface Refinements – Fixed an incorrect error check for default certification criteria, removed unsupported system devices from passive calculations, corrected several spelling errors, hot water fixture effectiveness now populates automatically, and aligned the area totals shown for each component type in the UI with the values in the report.
• 3D Visualization Color – Added global user setting to assigning default colors for building components

14.08.2026

Bux fixes

• Database – Fixed an issue where creating a material or assembly occasionally failed, particularly in the Japanese version.
• Database – Fixed an issue where layer material names were sometimes not displayed.
• Shared Objects – Recalculation and data validation are now triggered when an assembly or window type is pulled from the database.
• Site Energy Report – Corrected the colors used for monthly electricity and gas consumption.

31.07.2026

This release is one of our largest yet, with a strong focus on calculation accuracy, expanded database import options, and greater visibility into intermediate results throughout the workflow. Alongside new import support for WUFI Plus/Passive and Phius climate files, we’ve added several new side calculators, expanded heat pump water heater and user-defined system device inputs, and made important corrections to ventilation and hot water piping calculations. Because several of these corrections can affect previously calculated results, we recommend reviewing the notice below before relying on existing project results.

Important: Calculation Accuracy Updates

The following corrections may change calculated results for affected projects. If you built your project from scratch in METr (rather than importing from WUFI Passive), please review it against these changes:

• Mechanical ventilation envelope placement – Previously, setting one ventilation unit to “within thermal envelope” applied that status to all units in a project. Ventilation units are now assessed individually based on each unit’s own flow rates, giving more accurate results for projects with multiple units split across the thermal envelope.
• Duct assignment fix – For projects built from scratch in METr, duplicate duct IDs could cause every ventilation device to reference the same (first) duct instead of its own. Duct-to-device assignment is now correctly individualized.
• Hot water piping calculation fix – Similarly, projects built from scratch in METr could have all trunk, branch, and twig IDs default to the same value, causing only the first pipe in each section to be included in the calculation. All pipe segments are now correctly accounted for.
• Solar collector DHW priority – Solar collector contribution is now correctly prioritized in the domestic hot water calculation.
• Auxiliary energy for user-defined system devices – Auxiliary energy input for user-defined system devices is now correctly included in results.

Key New Features

• WUFI Plus/Passive database import – Import assembly and component data directly from WUFI Plus/Passive exported database (.xml) files.
• Phius climate file import – Import custom user monthly climate files (.xls/.xlsx) provided by Phius.
• Download all reports at once – Generate and download the full set of project reports in a single step.
• New side calculators – Added calculators for Recirculation Cooling COP, Dehumidification COP, heat loss coefficient per meter of pipe, and mechanical room temperature.
• Japanese language support – METr is now available in Japanese, making the full interface accessible to Japanese-speaking users.

Main Improvements

• Heat pump water heater inputs – Added UEF as an input option, clarified how the space heating COP input feeds into the adjusted HPWH energy factor, and calculated intermediate results are now shown directly in the UI.
• User-defined system device inputs – Added energy source selection and a choice of performance data input type (performance ratio, EF, or UEF).
• Greater visibility into intermediate results – Intermediate project design and average air flow results are now shown in the Rooms Ventilation tab; hot water piping heat capacity and pipe volumes, plus total and recirculation pipe losses, are now shown in the DHW General tab; and the utilization factor for renewable energy system devices is now displayed.
• Ventilation pattern refinements – Exhaust ventilation run time is now visualized by type, and daily operation time settings for ventilation patterns are now checked against a 24-hour limit.
• Shading calculator expansion – Added an interior and exterior blind calculator for manual operation deration.
• Laundry washer input – Added IMEF as an input option.
• Reporting accuracy – Source energy factors are now shown correctly based on location/country, and the visualized components treenode now shows totals by component type.
• Streamlined hot water piping tools – Removed the simplified hot water piping calculator and floor method in favor of the standard calculation and the DHW consumption input now only appears when simplified DHW distribution method is used.
• Global R/inch – is now also applied to duct thermal conductivity.
• Zone protection – Zones with assigned components can no longer be accidentally deleted.

Bug Fixes

• Foundation data interface – “Additional data” fields now correctly display for heated basement/underground floor slab and slab-on-grade foundation types, with improved automatic detection based on project geometry and assemblies.
• Zone volumes – Calculated zone volumes now update immediately when related inputs change.
• Transparent components – Frame-to-wall psi values now auto-populate correctly, and device properties update correctly after selecting a shading device.
• Input validation – Fixed input checking for the unheated cellar attached zone type and for water storage devices.
• Database corrections – Fixed the primary layer material for two Phius database assemblies.

Report Fixes

• Corrected system device naming.
• Fixed DHW and final energy charts.
• Ventilation losses are now split into natural and mechanical ventilation losses for clearer reporting.
• Fixed the display color for renewable electricity production in site and source energy reports.
• Fixed an issue where the project picture sometimes did not appear in the report.

WUFI Passive Import Fixes

• Kitchen freezer energy demand reference now imports correctly on an annual basis instead of daily.
• Fixed import of auxiliary energy for system devices.
• Fixed climate zone import to match the more granular division in METr
• Building and weather station heights above sea level are now imported correctly if user database climate was used

30.04.2026

• UI/UX improvements to input forms
  • Replaced proprietary/custom UI implementation with a standardized div-based layout
  • Optimized checkbox and dropdown responsiveness (toggle with one click)
  • Improved tooltip position, clarity and readability
• revised mircoservice management
  • better handling of intermediate results, currentrly for U-values
• Added Phius Materials and Assemblies to Database
• Energy (norm) demand dropdown fixed to be selected after loading mwp
• Distribution DHW simple calculator: fixed pipe diameter unit
• Enhanced Error Messages – Improved diagnostic text for inhomogeneous assembly errors to quickly identify missing or undefined values
• Cooling System Validation – Added comprehensive value checks for cooling system and distribution inputs
• Component Grouping Logic – Refined grouping and ungrouping to ensure accurate component management without unintended duplication
• Target Calculator Update – Non-residential buildings now support average occupancy alongside total design occupancy for more detailed occupancy modeling

09.01.2026

• Phius core 2024 and Phius zero 2024 Certification criteria
• Phius 2024 target calculator (Check the calculated target values during use, as slight deviations may occur.)
• delete unused shared objects (materials, assemblies), revised check if not assigned anywhere
• Unfinished (UF) Protocol built in (for all standards)
• additional data added to climate database (country, heating degree days, cooling degree days)
• Auto-fill median energy use/rating for internal load (appliances) acording to Phius guidelines

bugfix

• fixed solar collector (no need to set share usage, add used for space heating checkbox)
• Inner loads change immediately if building type is changed
• Fixed an calculation error for the gas laundry dryer
• REM-Rate report values displayed with the correct unit
• Input box for the name of HVAC devices
• Fixed auto-fill for frame left-right-top-bottom values

13.11.2025

• ‘store and sync in the cloud’ revised so that, among other things, a project cannot be accidentally deleted