• Ask the Passive House Certifiers #1: Where do I start? – Steven Mann – 2022
  • Building Certification with Andrew Peel – Andrew Peel – 2022 – In this 15 minute video Passive House Certifier provides an overview of building Certification topics to help orient practitioners for success.
  • Certified Efficiency – Vladimir Pezel, Matthew Bowers – 2022 – Certified Passive House Consultant and an Accredited Passive House Certifier tell their personal journeys through Passive House design, construction and certification of their homes, what the process meant to them, the lessons learned and tips for all to benefit from, going forward.
  • Passive House Certification Tips – Matthew Bowers – 2022 – Passive House Certification is critical to developing a fuller understanding of the Passive House Standard and the possibilities for optimization while providing a clear mark of a high-quality building. This support can be fully provided at the best price, when “the basics” are well understood and documented and common mistakes in the documentation are avoided from the get-go.
  • Pushing the Envelope: Climate, Comfort & Opaque Component Certification – Enrico Bonilauri – 2021 – You’ve heard of window and ventilation unit PHI certifications, but opaque building systems certification? What’s that? Get an insider’s look at the parts and the process, the tools, and the tips, for this increasingly important aspect of Passive House construction with expert Enrico Bonilauri.

  • Indoor Air Quality at the World’s Largest Passive House Premium Building – Siobhan Ferguson, Barry McCarron – 2022 – The Erne Campus is the first Passive House Premium Building in the UK and is the largest Passive House Premium Building in the World. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in buildings has never been as relevant as in current times with the issues such as the transmission of Covid-19. This exciting real-world study will present initial post occupancy CO2 and Temperature data in the heating season for this new fully-certified Passive House Premium Building.
  • NYC Public Schools: An Education in Passive House Performance – Daniel Piselli, Jeremy Shannon, Paula Zimin – 2020 – NYC owns a lot of buildings and city regulations, since 2016, require that newly built city-owned buildings achieve Passive House levels of efficiency by 2030. The City School Construction Authority (SCA) builds twenty new schools per year or about 1.5 million square feet, and has turned to Passive House to help shape this future.
  • Passive House Case Study: The Waring New School – Timothy Lock – 2022 – In order to facilitate a broad adoption of the Passive House standard as a governor for design, projects that attempt to achieve the standard, without compromising user programming or architectural design excellence, become natural bellwethers for new frontiers of what is achievable within the framework. The Waring New School, in Beverly Massachusetts, represents one such opportunity.
  • Stacking Up: Carrick Library, America’s First Certified Passive House Library – Brandon Nicholson – 2021 – Join us for an overview of the design process and virtual tour of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s recently completed Certified Passive House Carrick Library. Learn from several of the design and construction team members as we review systems and issues related to delivering this groundbreaking project.

  • An Education in Harnessing Efficiency – John Martin, Walker May, Thomas Moore, Aaron Witham – 2022 – The Portland Commons Residence Hall is part of the University of Southern Maine’s Portland Campus transformation. The 580-bed residence will provide an affordable housing option with amenities that include Passive House certified comfort. Now under construction, hear from project team members about how the financing, design, engineering, and integrated optimization are delivering this state-of-the-art facility for students.
  • A Kitchen for 750 please, Hold the Gas – David MacKeracher, Marine Sanchez – 2022 – Making commercial all-electric kitchens Passive House efficient with a focus on ventilation and wastewater heat recovery. When the University of Toronto committed to go all electric for its new student residence building – one of the biggest challenges to hit Passive House certification would be the full commercial kitchen required. This presentation hits unique strategies incorporated in the mechanical systems design to recover thermal energy from the buildings wastewater and the kitchen’s exhaust air. Find out the methods to implement in your next commercial kitchen project – and hit Passive House performance.
  • Connecting Climate Justice & Decarbonization – Bomee Jung, Yu Ann Tan – 2021 – RMI’s new report synthesizes how a holistic approach to retrofitting housing, supported by Passive House methodologies, can reduce harmful exposures and vulnerabilities associated with environmental racism, persistent poverty, and other social determinants of health. It also makes recommendations for action – for empowering underserved communities.
  • Crafts Street Senior Housing – John Martin, Marine Sanchez – 2023 – Crafts Street Senior Housing, an all-electric building with a commercial kitchen and indoor swimming pool designed for Passive House certification, will set a new standard for senior living and Passive House multifamily building. Designed by Elkus Manfredi Architects with RDH Building Science, Senior Resource Group and Mark Development the 185 residences feature 105 Independent Living apartments, 52 Assisted Living apartments, and 28 Memory Care apartments over a parking garage. Located in Newton, Massachusetts, the project anticipates a 2023 construction start and a 2025 delivery. Find out how they are planning to make it happen.
  • Designs for a Renewable Energy Grid – Bronwyn Barry, Dylan Martello – 2020 – Electrification is the buzzword du jour for decarbonization, and it’s pushing policymakers to rethink how they structure everything, from local codes, to energy models, to how they incentivize programs focused on high performance buildings. Passive House has always provided a careful accounting of ‘source energy,’ looking closely at which fuels power which appliances and HVAC equipment, noting that not all source energy is equal. This presentation will delve into how the Passive House standard is structured to support both electrification and decarbonization.
  • How to Electrify When Gas Bans are Banned – Bronwyn Barry – 2021 – In the presentation at the New Buildings Institute (NBI), NAPHN Board Chair, Bronwyn Barry, lays out how the Passive House approach can provide new pathways and momentum for electrification of buildings, even when gas bans are banned.
  • Indoor Air Quality at the World’s Largest Passive House Premium Building – Siobhan Ferguson, Barry McCarron – 2022 – The Erne Campus is the first Passive House Premium Building in the UK and is the largest Passive House Premium Building in the World. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in buildings has never been as relevant as in current times with the issues such as the transmission of Covid-19. This exciting real-world study will present initial post occupancy CO2 and Temperature data in the heating season for this new fully-certified Passive House Premium Building.
  • Making Passive House Commercial Kitchens Work – Roberto Iannetti, Marine Sanchez – 2022 – What could be more opposite to Passive House than a commercial kitchen? Do we write-off the multitude of cafeterias and restaurants that we all, from every walk of life, depend on? No, it gets figured out. Through trailblazing project applications and the scientific rigor of the Passive House Institute, even this barnburning function can be tamed in support of Passive House performance. Find out how they are doing it.
  • Package Terminal Heat Pumps: An Emerging Passive House Option – Dylan Martello, Mike O’Donnell, Marine Sanchez, Vicki Yee – 2023 – Advancements in package terminal heat pumps (PTHPs) offer a new Passive House multifamily path to electrification that can provide personalized heating and cooling comfort, compact spacing, and cost savings. What are the benefits and design considerations? Design & implementation strategies for success? How do the advantages and disadvantages compare to other heat pump system options? Find out.

  • Passive House, Large Scale Development & Electrification – Kent Gonzales, Michelle Lambert, Dylan Martello – 2022 – The Northland Newton Development in Newton, MA, is set to become one of the largest all-electric Passive House multifamily developments in the world. 800 units, both market rate and affordable, spread out over 9 buildings in a 22 acre-village style setting are being designed to the Passive House standard utilizing all electric MEP systems. This session will cover the evolution of the project from early conceptual design and planning to Construction Documents.
  • Policy Accelerants – Bronwyn Barry – 2022 – In this presentation Bronwyn Barry, PHN Board Member, and Policy Lead provides a comprehensive overview of the PHN report, Policy That Works. Find out the steps, the stitching, and the feedback loops that are driving Passive House and radical decarbonization in a variety of jurisdictions.
  • Retrofit First: Occupied Apartment Tower Step by Step EnerPHit – Jennifer Hogan, Hans Kogel, Andrew Peel – 2022 – A 20-story, 300 unit, affordable housing tower built-in 1974, the Raymond Desmond Manor, was often uncomfortable in the winter and summer, while energy consumed half the operating budget. Fully occupied and in need of upgrades to all significant building components, the building owner, Windsor Essex Community Housing Corporation, set out to do a 4-phase step-by-step EnerPHit renovation, while leaving the tenants in place. Hear about the challenges and solutions that have emerged during Phase 3 of the exterior envelope upgrades.
  • Scaling Up All-Electric Buildings – Lois Arena, Dylan Martello – 2022 – A central tenant in the climate fight is that all buildings will go all-electric. Yet for a number of reasons, thus far, all-electric big buildings have been elusive. However, today a new crop of Passive House big buildings are set to deliver on the goal of being fossil fuel free. Leading Passive House consultants Lois Arena and Dylan Martello will present two new large scale residential developments and a commercial Passive House retrofit, providing insight on the strategies, systems and processes that make the leap to all-electric buildings possible – the lessons being learned and the work to still be done – as teams ready to make the future a reality, today.
  • Speculative Solutions: Passive House Potential in the Biolab Building Boom – Beth Eckenrode, Blake Jackson, Jacob Knowles, Alejandra Menchaca, Thornton Tomasetti – 2022 –The world is awash in building laboratory research facilities and nowhere can likely claim a higher concentration than the Boston metro area. They are massive energy consumers and traditionally rely heavily on fossil fuel combustion. But shouldn’t cutting-edge research be supported by future-proof buildings? So, today with the push to eliminate on-site combustion, energy efficiency and integrated approaches to drive down the energy loads are a logical focus. Passive House should be well suited to help, but to what extent? This expert panel discussion dives into the misconceptions, the opportunities, the gaps, and future areas of inquiry.
  • The Passive Spec Office Building – Frank Delledera, Joelle Jahn, Brad Mahoney, Dylan Martello – 2022 – Winthrop Center, located in the heart of Downtown Boston, is set to feature the largest core and shell Passive House office space in the world when completed in 2023. Construction on the 21 floors of Passive House office, totaling 800,000 gross SF, is currently nearing completion. Take an in depth look at the project’s overall progress as well lessons learned from the construction. Floor by floor compartmentalization air sealing strategies, testing methods for large-scale projects, unitized curtain wall installation, and duct sealing.
  • The Chef’s Kitchen: All Electric – Christopher Galarza – 2022 – Do you care about cooking quality? Your health? Your comfort? Then stop blindly hugging your gas stove! For both residential and commercial applications, hear about the where what, and why of kitchen electrification. Find out about the fast-moving electrification of kitchen systems and deployment of alternative cooking technologies.
  • The Future of Building Standards – Bronwyn Barry, Greg Hale, Hank Keating – 2022 – The building code has been the driver of performance standards historically – but in the race to decarbonize, new regulatory and market drivers are competing for dominance. What’s shifting? Who’s leading? What’s to come?

    • Advancing All-Wood Design and Carbon Storage in the Built Environment – Matthew O’Malia – 2022 – In the quest for beautiful high-performance Passive House buildings that utilize low carbon biogenic materials, and prefabrication, hear about this in-depth pilot test case. This session investigates lessons learned and data collected from a 1,000sf CLT + wood fiber panelized prefab schoolhouse project in Maine. As emerging technologies, both CLT and wood fiber insulation deserve detailed study in how they perform in a real world application.
    • Carbon in Building Materials – Jacob Racusin – 2019 – Jacob Racusin of New Frameworks Natural Design/Build joins us as a guest speaker to present on how we can advance climate justice through the development of the built environment, and how our industry can partner with allied industries in agriculture and forestry to find solutions to social, ecological, and economic problems.
    • Delivering Wood Buildings – Erica Spiritos – 2022 – Presentations and moderated discussion will focus on the design, planning, and erection of mass timber buildings, and how universities are educating future workers and leaders for this field.
    • How to Retrofit Buildings in a Climate Emergency – Monte Paulsen – 2021 – British Columbia is a front line in our climate emergency. Recent cascading catastrophes throw into stark relief the call to upgrade our existing building stock to mitigate against and adapt to this emerging climate siege. As policies change how owners think about retrofits, EnerPHit offers a comprehensive step-by-step approach to avoid locking-in low performance and deliver buildings that fully leverage building performance and provide effective shelter. Learn from leading Passive House expert, Monte Paulsen, about the policies, the past missteps, and the view toward long-term planning for high-performance retrofits.
    • Intro to Mass Timber, Prefabrication & Academic Integration – Dr. Guido Wimmers – 2022 – Industrialized wood construction through well-managed forest resources can reduce wildfire risk, while delivering decarbonized buildings that are healthier for occupants, assembled rapidly, and adaptable.
    • Mass Timber for Academic & Public Buildings – Corey Martin – 2022 – Presentations and moderated discussion will focus on the design, planning, and erection of mass timber buildings, and how universities are educating future workers and leaders for this field.
    • Passive House, Embodied Carbon & Environmental Sustainability – Chris Hamm, Kyle Hanson, Lindsey Love, Chris Magwood – 2023 – Passive House supports a focus on embodied emissions, material sustainability, and ecosystem health. Innovation in thte care of forests, use of materials and optimized construction technics are driving a holistic approach to sustainabile building in the West. Find the challenges and opportunities from industry leaders in the Rocky Mountains.
    • Regenerative Design – Ann Marie Fallon – 2022 – Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.
    • Retrofit First – Jennifer Hogan, Hans Kogel, Andrew Peel – 2022 – A 20-story, 300 unit, affordable housing tower built-in 1974, the Raymond Desmond Manor, was often uncomfortable in the winter and summer, while energy consumed half the operating budget. Fully occupied and in need of upgrades to all significant building components, the building owner, Windsor Essex Community Housing Corporation, set out to do a 4-phase step-by-step EnerPHit renovation, while leaving the tenants in place. Hear about the challenges and solutions that have emerged during Phase 3 of the exterior envelope upgrades.
    • Rubin Hall EnerPHit Symposium – Dylan Martello, Cheryl Saldanha, Cecil Scheib, Jeffrey Rios, Michael Syracuse – 2023 – In this session, we will discuss the challenges encountered during Rubin Hall’s retrofit design phase and the creative solutions developed by the project team to achieve EnerPHit pre-certification. Project team members will share their perspectives on architectural and space planning, the landmark approval challenges, envelope improvement strategies, adding cooling and ventilation systems, and EnerPHit and sustainability considerations.
    • Scaling Historic Masonry Retrofits – Will Conner, Andrew Fishman, Michael Ingui, John Mitchell – 2022 – An 1899 masonry townhouse retrofit serves as the incubator and exemplar of historic masonry Passive House retrofit strategies. Hear from the architect, consultant and builder about real-world conditions and strategies – and how we can connect the dots to address at scale the needs of industrial building upgrades.
    • Tackling Embodied Carbon – Travis Anderson, Patrick Haydon, Jennifer Taranto – 2022 –To maximize climate impact, in addition to conserving building operational energy, we need to address the energy that goes into making and maintaining our buildings. The energy we expend to make building components and construct & maintain buildings is called embodied energy.
    • The Future of Building Standards – Bronwyn Barry, Greg Hale, Hank Keating – 2022 –The building code has been the driver of performance standards historically – but in the race to decarbonize, new regulatory and market drivers are competing for dominance. What’s shifting? Who’s leading? What’s to come?
    • The Hidden Climate Impact of Res Construction – Chris Magwood – 2023 – As we push to decarbonize our economy and the building sector, no stone can be left unturned. Passive House can deliver cost-effective operational energy decarbonization, but then what about embodied carbon? RMI dives into the fray with a report focused on single-family homes that demonstrates the critical impact of embodied carbon reductions and achievable action with both near-term and long-term benefits.
    • What’s Your Carbon Debt? – Bronwyn Barry, Tim Martel, Jason Quinn, Stacy Smedley – 2022 – Before the doors open, your building likely splurged on so much embodied carbon emissions during construction, that no amount of operational energy savings can make up for your initial high-carbon debt before it’s too late. To know if you’re investing in a climate solution, you need to calculate the embodied carbon. New tools are making these measurements easier and more actionable.

  • Certified Efficiency – Matthew Bowers, Vlad Pezel – 2022 – Certified Passive House Consultant and an Accredited Passive House Certifier tell their personal journeys through Passive House design, construction and certification of their homes, what the process meant to them, the lessons learned and tips for all to benefit from, going forward.
  • Community, Affordable Housing & Passive House – Adam Beauileu, Brenda Rosen, Elissa Winzelberg – 2021 – Breaking Ground is a non-profit focused on affordable housing paired with wraparound services designed to help people maintain their homes for the long-term as a proven solution to chronic homelessness. Their new development, Betances Residence, designed by CookFox, enlists Passive House as the latest evolution of their commitment to a complete integration of program, building design and engagement.
  • Designing to Scale Retrofits – Tony Daniels, James Geppner, Nina Sharifi – 2022 – Find out about what it means to design scalable and replicable low-energy retrofit solutions looking at the eight predominant multifamily building typologies in New York State and relevance to productized approach, including existing and emerging technologies.
  • #EfficiencyFirst – 2021 – The International Passive House Association (iPHA) is a global network uniting both Passive House experts and enthusiasts alike. Together with its 22 Affiliate Organizations, iPHA works to promote the Passive House standard and foster a greater public understanding of its benefits and achievability. The network makes a wealth of information available and facilitates active exchange among professionals, policymakers and the public.
  • Exterior Motorized Passive House Shading and Controls – Passive House Minnesota – 2022 –Learn about the value and implementation of exterior motorized shading and the benefits of integrated and smart controls from industry leaders Warema via 475 High Performance Building Supply (motorized shades and integrated apertures), Loxone (smart building controls), and TE Studio (Passive House design).
  • Home on the Prairie: An American Archetype Remade for 2050 and Beyond – Tim Eian – 2022 – From Indigenous teepees to settler cabins, to Frank Lloyd Wright designs, home on the prairie captures our imagination. See a leading practice’s evolution of thought, details, and systems integration, in making Passive House homes for our emerging Anthropocene age.
  • How Smart is Your Data? – Matthew Bowers, Bhaki Dave – 2022 – Rochester’s first Certified Passive House is being converted to a ‘Smart’ building. Since completion in 2016, energy data has been manually collected on a monthly basis and indoor air quality has been tracked to verify the performance and identify anomalies. Now, the house is equipped with meters and sensors for real-time continuous measurement and verification. Learn from the team how the technology (meters, sensors and data-logging) combined with dynamic simulation models enable the integration of actual operations with building’s theoretical potential performance.
  • Making PER Work for Large Multifamily Buildings – Melissa Furukawa, Elena Reyes Bernal – 2022 – What’s the PER (Primary Energy Renewable) criteria for Passive House buildings? Why is PER so important to futureproofing, our building strategies, today? As Passive House buildings get bigger, denser, and more complex, how can PER be appropriately applied?
  • Passive House Examples from NYSERDA’s Market Transforming Building Program – Sarah Bayer, Julie Chou, Patrick Fitzgerald, Abdulla Darrat, Jordan Dentz, James Garrison, Avery Gray, Corey Jones, Chris Lebron, Matt Murphey – 2022 – The Buildings of Excellence is a $40 million competition that recognizes the design, construction, and operation of very low or zero carbon-emitting multifamily buildings. Three winning projects will be explored.
  • Passive House Potential in the Biolab Building Boom – Beth Eckenrode, Blake Jackson, Jacob Knowles, Alejandra Menchaca, Thornton Tomasetti – 2022 – The world is awash in building laboratory research facilities and nowhere can likely claim a higher concentration than the Boston metro area. They are massive energy consumers and traditionally rely heavily on fossil fuel combustion. But shouldn’t cutting-edge research be supported by future-proof buildings? So, today with the push to eliminate on-site combustion, energy efficiency and integrated approaches to drive down the energy loads are a logical focus. Passive House should be well suited to help, but to what extent? This expert panel discussion dives into the misconceptions, the opportunities, the gaps, and future areas of inquiry.
  • Policy Accelerants – Bronwyn Barry – 2022 – In this presentation Bronwyn Barry, PHN Board Member, and Policy Lead provides a comprehensive overview of the PHN report, Policy That Works. Find out the steps, the stitching, and the feedback loops that are driving Passive House and radical decarbonization in a variety of jurisdictions.
  • Scaling Historic Masonry Retrofits – Will Conner, Andrew Fishman, Michael Ingui, John Mitchell – 2022 – An 1899 masonry townhouse retrofit serves as the incubator and exemplar of historic masonry Passive House retrofit strategies. Hear from the architect, consultant and builder about real-world conditions and strategies – and how we can connect the dots to address at scale the needs of industrial building upgrades.
  • The Chef’s Kitchen: All Electric – Christopher Galarza – 2022 – Do you care about cooking quality? Your health? Your comfort? Then stop blindly hugging your gas stove! For both residential and commercial applications, hear about the where what, and why of kitchen electrification. Find out about the fast-moving electrification of kitchen systems and deployment of alternative cooking technologies.
  • The Future of Building Standards – Bronwyn Barry, Greg Hale, Hank Keating – 2022 – The building code has been the driver of performance standards historically – but in the race to decarbonize, new regulatory and market drivers are competing for dominance. What’s shifting? Who’s leading? What’s to come?
  • The Passive Spec Office Building – Frank Delledera, Joelle Jahn, Brad Mahoney, Dylan Martello – 2022 – Winthrop Center, located in the heart of Downtown Boston, is set to feature the largest core and shell Passive House office space in the world when completed in 2023. Construction on the 21 floors of Passive House office, totaling 800,000 gross SF, is currently nearing completion. Take an in depth look at the project’s overall progress as well lessons learned from the construction. Floor by floor compartmentalization air sealing strategies, testing methods for large-scale projects, unitized curtain wall installation, and duct sealing.
  • The Power of Efficiency – Alea German, Jessica Grove-Smith, Paul Ormond – 2022 – That conservation is fundamental to moving in the world successfully has been well understood from Newtonian Laws to the enduring wisdom of Native Peoples’ Traditions and Cultures. Yet the rush of modernity discounted this view to devastating effects. Today as we work to repair our broken world, setting a course for sustainable outcomes, energy conservation struggles to be defined in today’s cultural currency of ROI. Passive House is a methodology that takes energy conservation to heart and leverages efficiency to produce wide-ranging positive impacts. How does Passive House wield efficiency to drive high performance? What are the new frontiers? How can efficiency underpin better regulation and commerce – providing comfort and quality that supports all people and communities? This opening panel establishes and explores Passive House’s core message: efficiency first.
  • Winthrop Center Passive House – MP Boston – 2022 – The forthcoming 691-foot, mixed-use tower in the heart of Boston contains 812,000 square feet of office space built to rigorous Passive House standards, setting a new global standard for building performance and energy conservation. Upon completion in 2023, Winthrop Center will be the largest Passive House office building in the world, modeling the most energy-efficient solution for large-scale buildings and leading the industry into the future.

  • Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary General of the UN – Amina J. Mohammed – 2017 – NAPHN17 was co-hosted by Passive House California and occurred on October 4th-7th, 2017 in Oakland, California. With participants and presentations from the global Passive House community, a highlight was the opening plenary. The North American Passive House Network was honored to have three representatives of the United Nations address the opening plenary. Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN, by video, outlined the critical role Passive House can play in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
  • AOC Supports Passive House – 2019
  • Community, Affordable Housing & Passive House – Adam Beauileu, Brenda Rosen, Elissa Winzelberg – 2021 – Breaking Ground is a non-profit focused on affordable housing paired with wraparound services designed to help people maintain their homes for the long-term as a proven solution to chronic homelessness. Their new development, Betances Residence, designed by CookFox, enlists Passive House as the latest evolution of their commitment to a complete integration of program, building design and engagement.
  • Connecting Climate Justice & Decarbonization – Bomee Jung, Yu Ann Tan – 2021 – RMI’s new report synthesizes how a holistic approach to retrofitting housing, supported by Passive House methodologies, can reduce harmful exposures and vulnerabilities associated with environmental racism, persistent poverty, and other social determinants of health. It also makes recommendations for action – for empowering underserved communities.
  • Excellence for Everyone – Sarah Bayer, Julie Chou, Patrick Fitzgerald, Abdulla Darrat, Jordan Dentz, James Garrison, Avery Gray, Corey Jones, Chris Lebron, Matt Murphey – 2022 – The Buildings of Excellence is a $40 million competition that recognizes the design, construction, and operation of very low or zero carbon-emitting multifamily buildings. Three winning projects will be explored.
  • Get Cool, Stay Cool – Sahara James, Oliver Styles – 2022 – Staying cool is becoming a hot topic. From underinvestment in neighborhood infrastructure to buildings seemingly constructed oblivious to the thermal and economic needs of occupants, as heat waves reach greater extremes and regularity – Passive House and the physical and social context the buildings occupy will determine how successful we can be. Hear strategies for environmental and social investment in combination with the latest thinking about passive cooling strategies that mitigate active cooling loads, and then provide appropriate active strategies we can implement.
  • Geothermal Systems Go Big: A Climate Justice Framework – Low-income communities and a new utility paradigm – Lauren Hildebrand, Audrey Schulman, Dave Hermantin, Eric Bosworth, Jared Rodriguez, Timothy Lock, Bill Grothmann, Jonathan Finewood, Amanda Tharp, Zoe, Kaufman, Paul Norton, Zack Semke – 2023 – Explore and unpack how race, geography, and economics intersect in healthy housing. Specifically, through networked geothermal heating and cooling, we will examine how this sustainable alternative to burning fossil fuels and other pollutants can help support low-income communities through a more cost-effective utility framework.

  • Grade 5 Passive House Song – 2020 – Translation of Passive House ideas into music and song by public school 5th graders, with their teachers, in Brooklyn, New York.
  • Indoor Air Quality at the World’s Largest Passive House Premium Building – Siobhan Ferguson, Barry McCarron – 2022 – The Erne Campus is the first Passive House Premium Building in the UK and is the largest Passive House Premium Building in the World. Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in buildings has never been as relevant as in current times with the issues such as the transmission of Covid-19. This exciting real-world study will present initial post occupancy CO2 and Temperature data in the heating season for this new fully-certified Passive House Premium Building.
  • Meeting the Market with Efficiency – Travis Anderson, Zeina Talja – 2022 – A market-rate multifamily case study at 52 Fisher Avenue, Boston. Targeting first-time homebuyers, high levels of sustainability and an aggressive schedule on a tricky site, this condo project is a case study in getting it done.
  • NYC Public Schools: An Education in Passive House Performance – Daniel Piselli, Jeremy Shannon, Paula Zimin – 2020 – NYC owns a lot of buildings and city regulations, since 2016, require that newly built city-owned buildings achieve Passive House levels of efficiency by 2030. The City School Construction Authority (SCA) builds twenty new schools per year or about 1.5 million square feet, and has turned to Passive House to help shape this future.
  • NYC Students Interpret Passive House Principles – 2021 – Brooklyn based Certified Passive House Designer and architect In Cho of ChoShields Studio works with NYC public school students and faculty to explore their creativity and interpret the Passive House principles.
  • Passive House from the Grassroots – Fred McGee – 2022 – Democratic community control and Passive House in a battle to disrupt and fight gentrification. How are low-income grassroots POC using Passive House to fight gentrification? The answer may lie in democratic community control that by-passes the non-profit industrial complex, not just speculative real estate development.
  • PS10 Principles of Passive House – 2020
  • Racism, Housing, Community Development, Passive House – Alan Dones, Ana McPhail, Derrick Tillman, Eddy Voltaire – 2022 – Understanding the compounding effects of systemic racism over time is critical to deconstructing our built environment, and to create new initiatives and policies that are both transformational and measurable. Rebuilding communities to a higher standard has become a means of building critical infrastructure, which must be viewed through the lens of social justice to create an aesthetic focused on equal and equitable development, which are socially and economically responsible and reflective of the community and the immediate needs of the people.
  • Retrofit First – Jennifer Hogan, Hans Kogel, Andrew Peel – 2022 – A 20-story, 300 unit, affordable housing tower built-in 1974, the Raymond Desmond Manor, was often uncomfortable in the winter and summer, while energy consumed half the operating budget. Fully occupied and in need of upgrades to all significant building components, the building owner, Windsor Essex Community Housing Corporation, set out to do a 4-phase step-by-step EnerPHit renovation, while leaving the tenants in place. Hear about the challenges and solutions that have emerged during Phase 3 of the exterior envelope upgrades.
  • Stuyvesant High School 5 Principles of Passive House Flow Dance – 2020 – Originally produced for PH2020, this amazing dance video is by NYC public Stuyvesant High School students interpreting the 5 principles of Passive House.
  • Supporting Equitable Sustainability – Aidan Callan, Beverly Craig, Gregory King, Ken Levenson, Corey Thompson – 2022 – Achieving more sustainable outcomes cannot be separated from more equitable outcomes. Intertwined, how is the building industry recognizing and supporting this reality? How aren’t we? And how should we? How do we fund, incentivize and support choices that drive equitable, deep sustainability? Gentrification, public housing, economic opportunities, breakdown of structural impediments, access to capital, inclusive processes, and more are all issues in play. This panel looks to connect the dots and point toward strategies for sustainable communities that Passive House and the building industry can support.
  • The Equity Imperative – Yu Ann Tan, Derrick Tillman, Eddy Voltaire, Alexis Washburn, Aaron Witham – 2022 – What are the mechanisms to ensure that the building revolution reaches and enriches all people? What are the benefits of high-quality Passive House buildings? In our “energy transition,” what are the priorities? How do we make high-performance new-build and retrofit construction more inclusive? Varied perspectives – from delivering health and affordability benefits to community development, and student care, to growing entrepreneurship for people of color – will explore what’s happening, what’s missing, and what could be next in our drive to make social equity a full partner in our definition of sustainability.
  • The Future of Building Standards – Bronwyn Barry, Greg Hale, Hank Keating – 2022 – The building code has been the driver of performance standards historically – but in the race to decarbonize, new regulatory and market drivers are competing for dominance. What’s shifting? Who’s leading? What’s to come?
  • Workforce Development, Incentives & Equitable Outcomes – Beverly Craig, Aaron Gunderson, Chris Legiadre, Mark Pignatelli – 2022 – Massachusetts has been an exemplar in engaging and funding workforce development. Yet the difficulty in connecting job training with emerging market needs is well appreciated, as is the need to close the gaps, reach the under-represented, and provide a workforce that is capable of implementing the market transformation being designed. Hear from a variety of experiences and perspectives in a discussion of what needs to happen next to push for social equity and industry capacity.

  • Financing the Energy Transition – Steve Fawkes, Matt Golden, Rob Harmon – 2022 – The capital stack of building development financing is, if complicated, fairly well understood, as is the need to underwrite to energy efficiency savings. Yet, in a world of seemingly endless financial instrument innovations, there are new financial possibilities that Passive House buildings can utilize to not just save money but perhaps even, to make money. This panel discussion looks at some new emerging vehicles for making Passive House energy efficiency pay.
  • Making the Market: Real Estate, Financing & Passive House Value – Mark Lyles, Katelyn Meehan, Molly Simpson – 2023 – A dive into the world of real estate investment, incentives, financing options, and ESGs. What levers are working? Where are we going? How can you get your next project funded?
  • Passive Assets: Using the Data to Underwrite Passive House Financing – Jon Braman, Jamie Bemis, Danielle Donnelly, Joanna Grab, Atalia Howe, Jennifer Leone – 2021 – How do we get lenders to fund Passive House construction and developers to drive adoption? With data. Forget the anecdotes and rumors. This session, based on an ongoing comprehensive study led by the Community Preservation Corporation and the City of New York, examines the key metrics needed to drive more aggressive underwriting standards and how Passive House buildings compare to their non-Passive peers, demystifying Passive House performance and incremental first costs.
  • The IRA: Passive House Funding Opportunities Demystified – Amanda Clevinger, Ion Simonides – 2023 – The Inflation Reduction Act provides $369 billion in climate investment, with over $40 billion of that dedicated to building decarbonization. This presentation and discussion will focus on multifamily and commercial Passive House buildings.

  • After the Marshall Fire: Building Back with Passive House Gets Real – Mark Attard, Chuck Bower, Kim Cinco, Rob Harrison, Jessica Hunter, Frank Wetenkamp, Maggie Wohltjen – 2023 – At the very end of 2021 the Marshall Fire destroyed over 1,000 homes in Boulder County Colorado. We’ll examine three Passive House rebuilds, each with a different approach to the build, and all currently under construction. We’ll unpack the process, the designs, the details from the architects and builders.
  • Passive House and Resilient Design in the Face of Fire – Andrew Michler – 2022 – Fire has always been a normal part of the west but with climate change and ever-expanding built environments our homes and cities are increasingly vulnerable. Firewise design strategies have been based on years of research on wildlands urban interface and home design with promising results. With the advent of Passive House design strategies the multiplier of energy effect practices have translated well beyond just energy savings and comfort but as an organizing factor of resiliency from fire, smoke, power outages, and extreme weather events.
  • The Marshall Fire: A Community Changes Business as Usual – Brad Begin, Christine Berg, Jessica Hunter, Zac Swank – 2023 – When the Marshall Fire destroyed over 1,000 homes in Boulder County, a community sprang to rebuild to higher performance standards, including Passive House. From governments, to utilities, to private business and community members, coordinated efforts at critical moments, helped change business as usual. Find out what happened, what’s happening now, and how the lessons so far can be applied to future transformational efforts, in the region, the state and even across the country.
  • Wildfire Resilience: Strategies, Codes, Data & the Wildland-Urban Interface – 2023 – Mary James, Birgitte Messerschmidt, Andrew Michler, Rob Nicely – With a growing number of devastating wildfires, there’s an imperative to make buildings fire safe and resilient. Passive House can support a clear pathway to achieve these goals.

  • Get Cool, Stay Cool – Sahara James, Oliver Styles – 2022 – Staying cool is becoming a hot topic. From underinvestment in neighborhood infrastructure to buildings seemingly constructed oblivious to the thermal and economic needs of occupants, as heat waves reach greater extremes and regularity, Passive House and the physical and social context the buildings occupy will determine how successful we can be. Hear strategies for environmental and social investment in combination with the latest thinking about passive cooling strategies that mitigate active cooling loads, and then provide appropriate active strategies we can implement.
  • Heat Pumps are Everywhere! Critical Data & Applications in the Passive House Context – Richard Gerbe, Tomas Mikeska – 2021 – Heat pumps are quickly emerging as a potentially game-changing component in our struggle to decarbonize building operations. Yet, the equipment, and its usage in Passive House buildings are not necessarily, automatically, compatible with each other. The Passive House Institute has applied the same scientific rigor to evaluating heat-pump performance as it has ventilation machines and window units. Find out the performance specifications and best practices for installation, to maximize your next project’s climate impact.
  • The New Frontier, Downtown: The Passive Spec Office Building – Frank Delledera, Joelle Jahn, Brad Mahoney, Dylan Martello – 2022 – Winthrop Center, located in the heart of Downtown Boston, is set to feature the largest core and shell Passive House office space in the world when completed in 2023. Construction on the 21 floors of Passive House office, totaling 800,000 gross SF, is currently nearing completion. Take an in depth look at the project’s overall progress as well lessons learned from the construction. Floor by floor compartmentalization air sealing strategies, testing methods for large-scale projects, unitized curtain wall installation, and duct sealing.
  • Summer Comfort & Cooling – Jessica Grove-Smith – 2021 – How do the warming climate conditions affect our design choices? In a warming world, will we need more active cooling to ensure summer comfort? This session will address the topic of both future climate scenarios as well as urban heat islands and how to calculate the impact on a building’s expected performance to ensure resilient design choices.

  • 2017 Ice Box Challenge – 2017 – NAPHN17 occurred October 4th-7th, 2017, in Oakland California. With participants and presentations from the global Passive House community including Canada, Spain, Germany, New Zealand, China, England and many other regions.
  • Ice Box Challenge Oakland – 2018 – The Ice Box Challenge comprises two small structures. One is built to the 2016 California Energy Code, and the other is built to the super-insulated, air tight Passive House Standard. Each Ice Box contains 250 pounds of ice. The Ice Boxes are left outside in the late summer sun for 5 days. Then they are opened and the amount of ice left in each box is measured. How much ice is left indicates how well each Ice Box keeps out the summer heat. Passive House California and the Ice Box Team is running the Ice Box Challenge, with support from members of the local construction industry, the North American Passive House Network, and the City of Oakland.
  • The Ice Box Challenge – 2018 – The Ice Box Challenge is a contest and an experiment to demonstrate how a home can be super energy efficient AND comfortable. The Ice Boxes are left outside in the sun for 18 days. When they are opened, the amount of ice left in each box will be measured. How much ice is left shows how well each Ice Box keeps out the summer heat. Better building design can help us reduce our carbon pollution without changing our behavior. Energy-efficient homes are comfortable, quiet and healthy.

  • Intro to Passive House (Part 1 of 5) – Ken Levenson – 2021 – This is part 1 of a 5 part series. In this episode, we’ll review what makes Passive House compelling in the first place, and look at some of the precedents leading to Passive House. Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This course dives into the basic principles, history, and the new frontiers of Passive House design as it continues to challenge and change industry expectations.
  • Intro to Passive House (Part 2 of 5) – Ken Levenson – 2021 – This is part 2 of a 5 part series. In this episode, we’ll review what the Passive House discovery was all about and look at some of its many benefits. Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This course dives into the basic principles, history, and the new frontiers of Passive House design as it continues to challenge and change industry expectations.
  • Intro to Passive House (Part 3 of 5) – Ken Levenson – 2021 – This is part 3 of a 5 part series. In this episode, we’ll review how the Passive House discovery challenges us to rethink and reimagine buildings. Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This one-hour course dives into the basic principles, history, and the new frontiers of Passive House design as it continues to challenge and change industry expectations.
  • Intro to Passive House (Part 4 or 5) – Ken Levenson – 2021 – This is part 4 of a 5 part series. In this episode, we’ll review Passive House costing and why it’s possible to make Passive Houses affordable. Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This one-hour course dives into the basic principles, history, and the new frontiers of Passive House design as it continues to challenge and change industry expectations.
  • Intro to Passive House (Part 5 of 5) – Ken Levenson – 2021 – This is part 5 of a 5 part series. In this episode, we’ll review the Passive House methodology and take a look at a few more building examples from around the world. Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architectural design itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. This one-hour course dives into the basic principles, history, and the new frontiers of Passive House design as it continues to challenge and change industry expectations.
  • PHN’s Introduction to Passive House – Ken Levenson – 2020 – Passive House goals and methodology change the way architects and builders think and work, making the architecture itself a driver of climate, health, and social solutions. In this one-hour course, PHN Executive Director, Ken Levenson, dives into the basic principles, history, and the new frontiers of Passive House as it continues to challenge and change industry expectations.
  • What is Passive House? – Ken Levenson – 2020

  • A Kitchen for 750 Please, Hold the Gas – David MacKeracher, Marine Sanchez – 2022 – Making commercial all-electric kitchens Passive House efficient with a focus on ventilation and wastewater heat recovery. When the University of Toronto committed to go all electric for its new student residence building – one of the biggest challenges to hit Passive House certification would be the full commercial kitchen required. This presentation hits unique strategies incorporated in the mechanical systems design to recover thermal energy from the buildings wastewater and the kitchen’s exhaust air. Find out the methods to implement in your next commercial kitchen project – and hit Passive House performance.
  • Feeding The Masses: Making Passive House Commercial Kitchens Work – Roberto Iannetti, Marine Sanchez – 2021 – What could be more opposite to Passive House than a commercial kitchen? Do we write-off the multitude of cafeterias and restaurants that we all, from every walk of life, depend on? No, it gets figured out. Through trailblazing project applications and the scientific rigor of the Passive House Institute, even this barnburning function can be tamed in support of Passive House performance. Find out how they are doing it.
  • The Chef’s Kitchen: All Electric – Christopher Galarza – 2022 – Do you care about cooking quality? Your health? Your comfort? Then stop blindly hugging your gas stove! For both residential and commercial applications, hear about the where what, and why of kitchen electrification. Find out about the fast-moving electrification of kitchen systems and deployment of alternative cooking technologies.

  • NAPHN18 Pittsburgh Highlights – 2018 – Some of the faces and places at the North American Passive House Conference 2018 at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, October 17th- 21st. We had nearly 600 participants and over 150 speakers from nearly a dozen countries sharing their expertise on Passive House buildings of all conceivable scales and types.
  • The Fundamentals of Online Marketing – Johnny Rezvani – 2020 – This presentation covers the basics of identifying your audience, developing your message, honing strengths, and improving your weaknesses when it comes to the online experience of your company. We’ll weigh the benefits against the time, money, and difficulty associated with each marketing channel, considering the best ways to sell Passive House to your clients, and to the world. This presentation will be facilitated by Johnny Rezvani, who has been Director of Marketing for 475 High Performance Building Supply since 2013. With a background in web design, media, and sustainable building, he has blended his experience to help grow and expand 475’s online presence and influence over the last 7 years.
  • The Passive Pitch – Mariana Pickering – 2021

  • Day 1, Session 1: Into to Mass Timber – Dr. Guido Wimmers – 2022 – Industrialized wood construction through well-managed forest resources can reduce wildfire risk, while delivering decarbonized buildings that are healthier for occupants, assembled rapidly, and adaptable. Passive House is a global ultra-low-energy building standard that offers resilience in the face of wildfires, energy insecurity, and a warming world.
  • Day 1, Session 2: Mass Timber for Academic & Public Buildings – Corey Martin – 2022 – Wood Industrialized Construction Kickoff: Presentations and moderated discussion will focus on the design, planning, and erection of mass timber buildings, and how universities are educating future workers and leaders for this field.
  • Day 1, Session 3: Delivering Wood Buildings – Erica Spiritos – 2022 – Wood Industrialized Construction Kickoff: Presentations and moderated discussion will focus on the design, planning, and erection of mass timber buildings, and how universities are educating future workers and leaders for this field.
  • Day 1, Session 4 – Industrialized construction in an education setting by Daniel Hall – Daniel Hall – 2022 – Passive House, Embodied Carbon Tools & Wood Components: Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.
  • Day 1, Session 5 – Panel Discussion – Michael Eliason – 2022 – Wood Industrialized Construction Kickoff: Presentations and moderated discussion will focus on the design, planning, and erection of mass timber buildings, and how universities are educating future workers and leaders for this field.
  • Day 2, Session 1 – Introduction by Michael Eliason – Michael Eliason – 2022 – Passive House, Embodied Carbon Tools & Wood Components: Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.
  • Day 2, Session 2 – Regenerative Design – Where We Are, by Ann Marie Fallon, Architype – Ann Marie Fallon – 2022 – Passive House, Embodied Carbon Tools & Wood Components: Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.
  • Day 2, Session 3 – Wood and Straw Prefabricated Passive House by Bjorn Kierulf – Bjorn Kierulf – 2022 – Passive House, Embodied Carbon Tools & Wood Components: Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.
  • Day 2, Session 5 – Decarbonized Value-Added Wood Manufacturing & Passive House, by Matthew O’Malia – Matthew O’Malia – 2022 – Passive House, Embodied Carbon Tools & Wood Components: Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.
  • Day 2, Session 6 – Prefab Panelized Wood Passive House, by Jonah Stanford – Jonah Stanford – 2022 – Passive House, Embodied Carbon Tools & Wood Components: Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.
  • Day 2, Session 7 – Panel Discussion Day – 2022 – Passive House, Embodied Carbon Tools & Wood Components: Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.

    • An Education in Harnessing Efficiency – John Martin, Walker May, Thomas Moore, Aaron Witham – 2022 – The Portland Commons Residence Hall is part of the University of Southern Maine’s Portland Campus transformation. The 580-bed residence will provide an affordable housing option with amenities that include Passive House certified comfort. Now under construction, hear from project team members about how the financing, design, engineering, and integrated optimization are delivering this state-of-the-art facility for students.
    • Breaking Ground: Community, Affordable Housing & Passive House – Adam Beauileu, Brenda Rosen, Elissa Winzelberg – 2021 – Breaking Ground is a non-profit focused on affordable housing paired with wraparound services designed to help people maintain their homes for the long-term as a proven solution to chronic homelessness. Their new development, Betances Residence, designed by CookFox, enlists Passive House as the latest evolution of their commitment to a complete integration of program, building design and engagement.
    • Case Studies in Elevated Expectations – Victor Malerba Jr., Patrick O’Shei, Stas Zakrzewski – 2022 – In 2019 NYSERDA launched the Buildings of Excellence competition, to recognize and reward design, construction, and very low carbon-emitting multifamily buildings, with $120 million in awards over three rounds. Two first-round winners, each high-rise multifamily buildings, and both winning a $500,000 award, 511 East 86th Street designed by Architectonica, and 211 West 29th Street designed by Z+H Architects will be presented. Find out how high-design, Passive House Certification, and team collaboration, produced these award-winning towers.
    • Go West, Passive House Multifamily! – Louis Koehl, Morgan Law, Ryan Lobello, Dylan Martello, Steven Scribner – 2023 – Multifamily building is scaling in the Northeast but has not yet in the West. Policy is a factor, but mystery is a barrier too. How will it work in the West? Let’s look at a small development in Denver and then run a thought experiment, moving an existing 100 unit Passive House building from New York, and optimize it for Denver CO, and San Jose CA. Let’s clear the static, see clearly the effort needed, and grasp a pathway forward to Passive House multifamily development.
    • In Search of Multifamily Performance Data – Lois Arena, Liam Davis, Beth Eckenrode, Mark Ginsberg, Iain MacFadyen – 2023 – The desire for more multifamily real-world performance data only grows. A demonstration project at the University of British Columbia was built not just to hit Passive House goals but engage the school program and students, making lessons learned from data collection a core part of this demonstration project. In New York, detailed data has been collected from 12 multifamily buildings by the same architect and consultants, providing the biggest data set yet for Passive House in the US. Find out what’s happening.
    • Keeping Your Students Healthy & Funders Happy – Jennifer Adams Peffer, Lois Arena, Deborah Moelis – 2020- As the Education sector tackles climate change on their campuses, there is no question that student residences and dormitories should be designed to meet Passive House standards. Why? Not only will the building reduce net energy use by 60% and -become more resilient, but the resultant healthy interior environment will improve the wellness of the occupant. Embracing this high-performance design protocol for student residences of any size will align three goals for any campus: sustainability, student health, and bottom-line financial performance. This presentation will demonstrate how these goals can be achieved. Featured case studies are The House at Cornell Tech, the world’s largest Passive House university building, and the new 750 bed dormitory at the University of Toronto Scarborough, each of which is setting a new bar for performance and healthy living.
    • Making Multifamily Passive House a Reality – Tim McDonald – 2019 – Tim McDonald shares his experience completing Passive House Certified multifamily buildings in Pennsylvania, which is leading the country in developments at high density and with affordability for residents. Tim provides insight into optimizing design of multifamily buildings for Passive House certification – from the form factor to the mechanical systems, as well as the economics of his buildings from the developer perspective.
    • Making PER Work for Large Multifamily Buildings: Tools for Futureproofing – Melissa Furukawa, Elena Reyes Bernal – 2022 – What’s the PER (Primary Energy Renewable) criteria for Passive House buildings? Why is PER so important to futureproofing, our building strategies, today? As Passive House buildings get bigger, denser, and more complex, how can PER be appropriately applied?
    • Meeting the Market with Efficiency – Travis Anderson, Zeina Talja – 2022 – A market-rate multifamily case study at 52 Fisher Avenue, Boston. Targeting first-time homebuyers, high levels of sustainability and an aggressive schedule on a tricky site, this condo project is a case study in getting it done.
    • Optimizing Form & Function – Michael Eliason – 2022 – Discussions around urban morphology are not as robust in the Passive House community as they could be. Building form plays a significant role in the ease or difficulty of achieving Passive House performance, and so urban form – and how building codes work within them – plays an outsized role in optimization. One way to optimize buildings is to increase the amount of floor area in the same thermal envelope. Point Access Blocks (single stair buildings) –the basic urban building block in most other countries – are one such method to achieve this. Larch Lab’s Michael Eliason will discuss his report for the City of Vancouver on Point Access Blocks, which touches on how these issues are also interwoven with embodied carbon, climate adaptation, family-sized units, re-compaction, and improved quality of life.
    • Passive House, Large Scale Development & Electrification – Kent Gonzales, Michelle Lambert, Dylan Martello – 2022 – The Northland Newton Development in Newton, MA, is set to become one of the largest all-electric Passive House multifamily developments in the world. 800 units, both market rate and affordable, spread out over 9 buildings in a 22 acre-village style setting are being designed to the Passive House standard utilizing all electric MEP systems. This session will cover the evolution of the project from early conceptual design and planning to Construction Documents.
    • Whistler Housing Authority Multifamily – 2020
    • Why Passive House Multifamily? Market Rate & Affordable Housing Explain – Sara Bayer, David Downs, James Peterson, Carmel Pratt, Steve Purdue, Tony Sanchez – 2023 – A 180-unit market rate development in Boston and a 140-unit affordable development in New York City. Hear the barriers, the incentives, the codes, strategies, and place in the market – from architect, engineer, and developer.

  • Passive House Frontiers: New Typologies – Jessica Grove-Smith, Elena Reyes Bernal, Marine Sanchez – 2023 – Passive House doesn’t sit still. Find out about where Passive House buildings, components and systems are headed, and what’s next.

  • How Smart is Your Data? – Matthew Bowers, Bhaki Dave – 2022 – Rochester’s first Certified Passive House is being converted to a ‘Smart’ building. Since completion in 2016, energy data has been manually collected on a monthly basis and indoor air quality has been tracked to verify the performance and identify anomalies. Now, the house is equipped with meters and sensors for real-time continuous measurement and verification. Learn from the team how the technology (meters, sensors and data-logging) combined with dynamic simulation models enable the integration of actual operations with building’s theoretical potential performance.
  • Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Handing Passive House Buildings Over to Operations & Management – Lois B. Arena – 2022 – Find out why, after the Passive House is built, the critical question is; Are operations and management staff trained and ready? This session will explore the need for O&M staff training and will identify the most critical building components and systems that should be targeted to ensure efficient operation, comfort and durability.

  • Community, Affordable Housing & Passive House – Adam Beauileu, Brenda Rosen, Elissa Winzelberg – 2021 – Breaking Ground is a non-profit focused on affordable housing paired with wraparound services designed to help people maintain their homes for the long-term as a proven solution to chronic homelessness. Their new development, Betances Residence, designed by CookFox, enlists Passive House as the latest evolution of their commitment to a complete integration of program, building design and engagement.
  • Experience Passive House Acceleration – Emma Osmundsen – 2022 – A decade ago the City of Exeter began a Passive House journey that has led to a transformation of the cities’ development practices and has been at the vanguard of fast-growing Passive House development activity across the UK. Focused on occupant health, comfort, durability, and accessibility, hear the story, the lessons learned, and what is on the horizon from the UK’s largest Passive House developer.
  • Handing Passive House Buildings Over to Operations & Management – Lois B. Arena – 2022 – Find out why, after the Passive House is built, the critical question is; Are operations and management staff trained and ready? This session will explore the need for O&M staff training and will identify the most critical building components and systems that should be targeted to ensure efficient operation, comfort and durability.
  • Massachusetts & Scotland: The Passive House Stories – Beverly Craig, Jayne Lino – 2022
  • Optimizing Form & Function – Michael Eliason – 2022 – Discussions around urban morphology are not as robust in the Passive House community as they could be. Building form plays a significant role in the ease or difficulty of achieving Passive House performance, and so urban form – and how building codes work within them – plays an outsized role in optimization. One way to optimize buildings is to increase the amount of floor area in the same thermal envelope. Point Access Blocks (single stair buildings) –the basic urban building block in most other countries – are one such method to achieve this. Larch Lab’s Michael Eliason will discuss his report for the City of Vancouver on Point Access Blocks, which touches on how these issues are also interwoven with embodied carbon, climate adaptation, family-sized units, re-compaction, and improved quality of life.
  • Own Your Passive House Development Process: Hitting Milestones & Budgets – Lois Arena, Monte Paulsen – 2022 – Large building developers and project managers learn how to integrate critical Passive House considerations into the typical development schedule and budget processes. Understand from predesign to construction QA, what a project manager should expect, when, and from whom. Examine actual large Passive House building budgets, the key variables, and factors to watch for in budgeting.
  • Passive House Examples from NYSERDA’s Market Transforming Building Program – Sarah Bayer, Julie Chou, Patrick Fitzgerald, Abdulla Darrat, Jordan Dentz, James Garrison, Avery Gray, Corey Jones, Chris Lebron, Matt Murphey – 2022 – The Buildings of Excellence is a $40 million competition that recognizes the design, construction, and operation of very low or zero carbon-emitting multifamily buildings. Three winning projects will be explored.
  • Roundtable #1: How Owners Choose Passive House – Beth Eckenrode, Derrick Tillman, Kathleen MacNeil, Fran Coen, Nikole Sheaffer, Ben Ohebshalom – 2020 – How will you make a “go/no go” decision to pursue the Passive House Standard? How is certification described and related to developing team clarity and decision making? What’s the role of new regulations, financing opportunities, market differentiation, and risk assessment? Is Passive House Certification the goal or a means to a greater end? Building developers lay out their criteria and process, in a peer discussion you can participate in.
  • Roundtable #2: How Owners Do It – Beth Eckenrode, Alex Bernstein, Ed Kolic, Emma Osmundsen, Grant Ervin, Garrett Scott – 2021 – Once the decision to pursue Passive House is made, going forward, how will the Passive House methodology fit into your typical project delivery and business mechanics? Developers and owners will describe the project delivery decisions made to meet their project and business requirements, including financing, team building, planning, and execution, in a peer discussion you can participate in.
  • Roundtable #3: Owners Feedback Loop – Beth Eckenrode, Emma Osmundsen, Alex Kaplan, Ryan Cassidy, Tom Shircliff, Tim McDonald – 2021 – Now that you own a completed Passive House building, how will you drive it? Manual or smart data collection and feedback? Occupant education? Systems calibrations and maintenance? Building owners, in peer discussion you can participate in, tell how they are running their buildings to maintain long-term high-performance.
  • The Marshall Fire Journey: Homeowners & Teams Rebuilding Better – Susan Nedell, Mark Attard, Michelle and Peter Ruprecht, Rob Harrison, Chuck Bower, Kevin and Casey Lombardo, Morgan Law & Maggie Wohltjen, Frank Wetenkamp – 2022 – December 30, 2021, the Marshall fire burned down over 1,000 homes in the eastern Boulder County communities of Superior and Louisville. Faced with staggering loses, families are now in the process of rebuilding, with the support of community members, towns, the county, state and utility. An array of financial incentives are encouraging families to build back better, learning the lessons of past disasters and working to build more resilient homes that are more energy efficient. The Passive House Network in cooperation with the Colorado Green Building Guild, Xcel Energy and other stakeholders have helped support this effort, and in particular, to achieve Passive House performance and certification.

  • Can Mass Production Figure Out Passive House? – Graham Irwin, Andrew Peel, Shannon Pendelton – 2023 – The cost and design demands of mass produced buildings can seem at odds with Passive House results. Let’s take a look at single family production builing and multifamily modular.
  • Pushing the Envelope: Climate, Comfort & Opaque Component Certification – Enrico Bonilauri – 2021 – You’ve heard of window and ventilation unit PHI certifications, but opaque building systems certification? What’s that? Get an insider’s look at the parts and the process, the tools, and the tips, for this increasingly important aspect of Passive House construction with expert Enrico Bonilauri.

  • Dealing with Heat Waves: Can We Use the PHPP to Size Cooling Equipment? – Oliver Style – 2023 – Given ever more frequent heat waves and the increasing need for active cooling in Passive House residential buildings, the issue of correctly sizing cooling equipment is key if we are to maintain thermal comfort, at low power. Sizing the cooling equipment properly becomes critical, and once the work has gone into to creating a working PHPP model, can we safely use the tool to size cooling equipment?
  • Emu Report on Energy Standards – Enrico Bonilauri – 2023 – Emu Report on Building Standards, Appendix B, California Results, offers first-of-its-kind analysis and data on 11 single-family homes built to Passive House standards in a variety of climate zones throughout California, evaluating their performance on comfort, indoor air quality, durability, heating and cooling loads, and energy efficiency.
  • Industrialized Construction in an Education Setting – Daniel Hall – 2022 – Passive House, Embodied Carbon Tools & Wood Components: Get an overview of Passive House and low-carbon buildings incorporating innovative calculations, prefabrication, and wood construction, followed by a moderated discussion.
  • Introduction to Honeybee-PH – Software for Complex Passive House Design – Ed May – 2022 – The Passive House Planning Package (PHPP) is a trusted, effective tool for assessing a building’s energy performance and is critical for any Certified Passive House project. But for many types of buildings it can be very challenging to accurately model complex geometry, detailed multi-zone usage profiles, and non-residential mixed-use scenarios. ‘Honeybee-PH’ is a new, free, open-source software toolkit for use with the popular sustainability assessment package ‘Ladybug-Tools’ (https://www.ladybug.tools/) which enables efficient, flexible modeling of these types of large and complex Passive House buildings.
  • Making a Better Crystal Ball: Strategies for Passive House Energy Modeling – Matt Bowers, Kelly Fisher, Ed May, Sherman Wai – 2023 – Predictive performance is the key to Passive House optimization and success. To predict performance, tools like PHPP and DesignPH are used. Today, practitioners are developing sophisticated strategies to optimize the calculations, with dynamic comparisons, making work faster and better.

  • Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN – Amina J. Mohammed – 2017 – NAPHN17 was co-hosted by Passive House California and occurred on October 4th-7th, 2017 in Oakland, California. With participants and presentations from the global Passive House community, a highlight was the opening plenary. The North American Passive House Network was honored to have three representatives of the United Nations address the opening plenary. Ms. Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the UN, by video, outlined the critical role Passive House can play in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
  • AOC Supports Passive House – 2019
  • Designing to Scale Retrofits – Tony Daniels, James Geppner, Nina Sharifi – 2022 – Find out about what it means to design scalable and replicable low-energy retrofit solutions looking at the eight predominant multifamily building typologies in New York State and relevance to productized approach, including existing and emerging technologies.
  • Diana Urge-Vorsatz – 2019
  • Excellence for Everyone – Sarah Bayer, Julie Chou, Patrick Fitzgerald, Abdulla Darrat, Jordan Dentz, James Garrison, Avery Gray, Corey Jones, Chris Lebron, Matt Murphey – 2022 – The Buildings of Excellence is a $40 million competition that recognizes the design, construction, and operation of very low or zero carbon-emitting multifamily buildings. Three winning projects will be explored.
  • Experience Passive House Acceleration – Emma Osmundsen – 2022 – A decade ago the City of Exeter began a Passive House journey that has led to a transformation of the cities’ development practices and has been at the vanguard of fast-growing Passive House development activity across the UK. Focused on occupant health, comfort, durability, and accessibility, hear the story, the lessons learned, and what is on the horizon from the UK’s largest Passive House developer.
  • Factoring in Electrification: Designs for a Renewable Energy Grid – Bronwyn Barry, Dylan Martello – 2020 – Electrification is the buzzword du jour for decarbonization, and it’s pushing policymakers to rethink how they structure everything, from local codes, to energy models, to how they incentivize programs focused on high performance buildings. Passive House has always provided a careful accounting of ‘source energy,’ looking closely at which fuels power which appliances and HVAC equipment, noting that not all source energy is equal. This presentation will delve into how the Passive House standard is structured to support both electrification and decarbonization.
  • Getting Political: Lessons From Building Performance Policy Battles in Minneapolis – Tim Eian – 2021 – The Minneapolis City Council appeared on the path to institute policies to encourage Passive House buildings this autumn, but an abrupt turn left Passive House advocates scrambling. Passive House Minnesota sounded the call, then local, regional and national voices helped galvanize support. Learn about the rough-and-tumble intersection of local politics and global policy objectives.
  • How to Electrify When Gas Bans are Banned – Bronwyn Barry – 2021 – In the presentation at the New Buildings Institute (NBI), NAPHN Board Chair, Bronwyn Barry, lays out how the Passive House approach can provide new pathways and momentum for electrification of buildings, even when gas bans are banned.
  • Keys to Successful Passive House Implementation in California – 2022 – As California, the 5th largest economy in the world, pushes toward electrification and away from fossil fuels, a big question is how far can building energy efficiency be pushed forward, across the state, as well. Can California mainstream Passive House? Can California drive a transformation of our American building industry? Find out how the argument for Passive House is rising in the Golden State, how lessons are being learned from experiences around the world, and what could be the winning argument to support such an industry transition.
  • Massachusetts Mandates – Paul Ormond – 2023 – Massachusetts has adopted a new building energy code that mandates Passive House Certification for large multifamily buildings in jurisdictions that adopt it, which to date include Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Somerville and Watertown with likely dozens more cities and towns adopting in the coming months. The mandate is part of a shift in focus away from overall EUI as the key indicator of building performance, toward Thermal Energy Demand Intensity or TEDI.
  • NYSERDA – 2020
  • Optimizing Form & Function – Michael Eliason – 2022 – Discussions around urban morphology are not as robust in the Passive House community as they could be. Building form plays a significant role in the ease or difficulty of achieving Passive House performance, and so urban form – and how building codes work within them – plays an outsized role in optimization. One way to optimize buildings is to increase the amount of floor area in the same thermal envelope. Point Access Blocks (single stair buildings) –the basic urban building block in most other countries – are one such method to achieve this. Larch Lab’s Michael Eliason will discuss his report for the City of Vancouver on Point Access Blocks, which touches on how these issues are also interwoven with embodied carbon, climate adaptation, family-sized units, re-compaction, and improved quality of life.
  • PHN Presents: Scaling up Passive in Massachusetts: Policies, Incentives, and Educational Offerings – Beverly Craig – 2021 – Two years ago, there was only one multifamily PH building certified in MA. Today, there are over 102 proposed buildings including more than 8000 rental units that are seriously considering certifying Passive. How did this momentum build so fast? What are the policies, incentives, and players that have led to this transformation in the new construction market? What kind of incremental costs are they seeing in the Massachusetts market to upgrade to passive certification? And are there educational resources Massachusetts has developed that your state can adapt and use? Learn strategies and lessons that could build momentum in your state.
  • Policy Accelerants – Bronwyn Barry – 2022 – Bronwyn Barry, PHN Board Member, and Policy Lead provides a comprehensive overview of the PHN report, Policy That Works. Find out the steps, the stitching, and the feedback loops that are driving Passive House and radical decarbonization in a variety of jurisdictions.
  • Passive Assets – Jon Braman, Jamie Bemis, Danielle Donnelly, Joanna Grab, Atalia Howe, Jennifer Leone – 2021 – How do we get lenders to fund Passive House construction and developers to drive adoption? With data. Forget the anecdotes and rumors. This session, based on an ongoing comprehensive study led by the Community Preservation Corporation and the City of New York, examines the key metrics needed to drive more aggressive underwriting standards and how Passive House buildings compare to their non-Passive peers, demystifying Passive House performance and incremental first costs.
  • Policy: Clear Targets – 2019
  • Policy: Do Get Me Started Session – Gina Bocra – 2019
  • Public Policy & Passive House: A Warming Relationship – Heidi Erm, Chris Hornstein, Jonathan Hines, Paul Ormond – 2023 – Voluntary stretch codes and mandates, incentives and penalties, climage policy and climate action – there is a growing list of avenues for Passive House implementation. Get the latest insights on what’s working, what’s promising, and where you may see the biggest opportunities to make a difference.

  • Scaling Up Passive in Massachusetts – Beverly Craig – 2021 – Two years ago, there was only one multifamily PH building certified in MA. Today, there are over 102 proposed buildings including more than 8000 rental units that are seriously considering certifying Passive. How did this momentum build so fast? What are the policies, incentives, and players that have led to this transformation in the new construction market? What kind of incremental costs are they seeing in the Massachusetts market to upgrade to passive certification? And are there educational resources Massachusetts has developed that your state can adapt and use? Learn strategies and lessons that could build momentum in your state.
  • The Codes We Want – Bronwyn Barry, Mike Fowler, Shefali H.Sanghvi – 2023 – Building codes, energy codes, and various regulations can hinder or assist in the making of Passive House projects – as well as inform the development of new codes and regulations. Find out the paths taken and the search for the codes we want in making Passive House successful.
  • The IRA: Passive House Funding Opportunities Demystified – Amanda Clevinger, Ion Simonides – 2023 – The Inflation Reduction Act provides $369 billion in climate investment, with over $40 billion of that dedicated to building decarbonization. This presentation and discussion will focus on multifamily and commercial Passive House buildings. What are the programs? Funding pathways? What’s available now, and what funding opportunities can we expect in the coming months and years. Find out all this and more.
  • The US & Sustainable Density: A Look at European Climate Adaptive Districts – Verena Brehm,Yunshih Chen, Michael Eliason, Lukas Vallentin – 2023 – Europe has made great strides in thinking beyond the building to neighborhoods and districts as a critical step toward sustainable building. What are the components of an “ecodistrict”, and how is it being done successfully today. Get inspired to figure out how to make it happen in the US, in your town and city.

    • Brownstone Retrofit: Brooklyn, NY – 2020
    • Commercial Building Retrofits: Two Case Studies – Dylan Martello, Ed May, Dave Parker, Cheryl Saldanha, Aris Tsiopoulos – 2023 – A historic police station in Pittsburgh and a historic New York University dormitory are two case studies, demonstrating the difficulties and possibilities of Passive House retrofits to the EnerPHit standard.
    • Designing to Scale Retrofits – Tony Daniels, James Geppner, Nina Sharifi – 2022 – This is a joint session with design teams from NYCHA’s first deep energy retrofit and Syracuse University, Winding Ridge apartment retrofit project, and NYSERDA. Find out about what it means to design scalable and replicable low-energy retrofit solutions looking at the eight predominant multifamily building typologies in New York State and relevance to productized approach, including existing and emerging technologies.
    • Historic Preservation, Use Conversion & Affordable Development – Lois Arena, Christina McPike – 2020 – A historic masonry high school building is being converted into senior housing. With funding from the Connecticut Housing Finance Authority, approvals are required not just to meet the EnerPHit Passive House Institute renovation standard, but also to satisfy the State Historic Preservation Office and the National Park Service. Learn from team leaders the strategies, the planning and design hurdles, and construction milestones to date, and their path forward to achieve their comprehensive goals.
    • How to Retrofit Buildings in a Climate Emergency – Monte Paulsen – 2021 – British Columbia is a front line in our climate emergency. Recent cascading catastrophes there throw into stark relief the call to upgrade our existing building stock to mitigate against and adapt to this emerging climate siege. As policies change how owners think about retrofits, EnerPHit offers a comprehensive step-by-step approach to avoid locking-in low performance and deliver buildings that fully leverage building performance and provide effective shelter.
    • Morgan Avenue Retrofit: Bronx, NY – Lindsay Architecture Studio – 2020
    • Nice OutPHit! – Nuria Diaz, Stefan Pallantzas, Jan Steiger, Etienne Vekemans – 2022 – Energiesprong meets Passive House performance in this emerging PHI program developed to drive scalable deep energy retrofits. Find out about initial case studies and the results from the PHI program manager and project leaders.
    • OutPHit: The Strategy That’s Scaling Up Retrofits – Nuria Diaz Antón, Jeremy Avellino, Berthold Kaufmann, Etienne Vekemans – 2023 – OutPHit is a program developed by PHI to empower the acceleration of large scale renovations that maintain EnerPHit quality. In its TK year there are substantial results, insights and plans for expanding the program. Find out how it’s getting done and how you can too.
    • Retrofit Everything: Scaling Action in New York and Ontario – Anna Kazmierska, Christopher Mahase, Noah Slater – 2020 – Governments are acting to scale building retrofits as a core climate crisis solution, and in the process transform dynamics and expectations across the entire building industry. NYSERDA is entering the next phase of RetrofitNY, a program focused on multifamily upgrades, now including New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) buildings. Toronto Community Housing is embarking on a multiyear effort to upgrade its stock of 2,100+ buildings. Discuss with the presenters, how they are utilizing Passive House and the EnerPHit renovation standard, to transform industry in New York, and Ontario, and how it can support your plans.
    • Rubin Hall EnerPHit Symposium – Dylan Martello, Cheryl Saldanha, Cecil Scheib, Jeffrey Rios, Michael Syracuse – 2023 – In this session, we will discuss the challenges encountered during Rubin Hall’s retrofit design phase and the creative solutions developed by the project team to achieve EnerPHit pre-certification. Project team members will share their perspectives on architectural and space planning, the landmark approval challenges, envelope improvement strategies, adding cooling and ventilation systems, and EnerPHit and sustainability considerations.
    • Sawkill Passive House – 2020
    • Star Garment Innovation Center, Sri Lanka – Sri Lanka Passive House – 2020

  • AB Passive House Plus HLW – Andrew Michler – 2020
  • Building Passive House Roundtable – Lindsay Schack – 2020 – Lindsay Schack of Love | Schack Architecture leads a roundtable discussion on the realities of building a passive house in the West. This casual conversation with passive house builders, consultants, manufacturers and designers provides intimate insights of bringing a passive house from concept to completion.
  • Millhaus Case Study – Greg Fisher – 2021 – Millhaus is a single-family home located on the site of a former cherry mill near Fort Collins, Colorado. The home was designed and constructed by architect Greg Fisher, with the assistance of many others. Millhaus provides an elegant solution in harmony with the typical health, comfort, and performance benefits that a Passive House provides.
  • SUPERHOUSE, Honeoye Falls, NY – 2020
  • The All American Home: New & Improved – Ilka Cassidy, Lucas Johnson, Heather Mott, Craig Toohey – 2023 – The single family home, an American icon, is getting an overhaul. Today, homes can be truly comfortable, safe and healthy. Find out how two innovative North American companies are making it happen.
  • 2Good Energy Haus – 2020
  • 6 Passive House Los Angeles PHLA+ – Christian Kienapfel – 2020 – Passive House video tour for PH2020 by Christian Kienapfel of PARAVANT Architects, in Los Angeles California.

  • Exterior Motorized Passive House Shading and Controls – Passive House Minnesota – 2022 – Learn about the value and implementation of exterior motorized shading and the benefits of integrated and smart controls from industry leaders Warema via 475 High Performance Building Supply (motorized shades and integrated apertures), Loxone (smart building controls), and TE Studio (Passive House design).

  • HIGHMARK Video – 2020
  • Multifamily Ventilation Duct Leakage – Kelly Fisher, Michael Schmidt – 2024 – Ventilation airflows are an essential component of Passive House building performance, delivering the fresh, hygienic indoor air at the heart of Passive House goals. As buildings grow in size, ventilation duct leakage grows in importance, and successfully commissioning a system with airtight ducts with minimal leakage becomes essential to obtaining Passive House Certification.
  • NAPHN Ventilation Symposium – Rainer Pfluger, Berthold Kaufmann, Charles Stephens, Matthew Friedlander, Mike Moore – 2021 – Hear the story of the evolution of Passive House ventilation criteria and component testing from a scientist at the center of its development.
  • Sponsor Showcase Swegon – Andrew Peel – 2022
  • Shelly Miller AMA – Shelly Miller – 2020 – With all of us having to stay inside for an extended amount of time Shelly Miller, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder and a faculty member of the interdisciplinary Environmental Engineering Program at CU, will cover many issues of Indoor Air Quality that can impact our well being.
  • Swegon – Mike Woolsey – 2022
  • SWEGON Video 4 – 2020
  • Ventacity – Barry Stephens – 2022
  • Why Does Covid-19 Hate Passive House? – Beth Eckenrode, Anjanette Green, Bronwyn Barry, Berthold Kaufmann – 2021 – A panel discussion you can participate in, takes a serious look at virus transmission, Covid-19 specifically, the science, the mechanics, and the implementation of controlling your built environment to minimize the risks to our health.
  • Why Passive House Ventilation is the Invisible Hand of High Performance – Berthold Kaufmann, Barry Stephens – 2021 – In the quest to optimize comfort, efficiency, and architectural design, professionals struggle with thermal-bridge-free detailing, they closely examine the air barrier continuity and triple-check the window placements in the PHPP – but the ventilation? Too often, there is a lack of appreciation for the profound impact ventilation has on a building’s energy balance and the design freedom that results from optimized ventilation systems. Ignore it no longer. Learn about the Passive House Institute’s criteria for ventilation units and systems certification.
  • 475 High Performance Building Supply – Johnny Rezvani – 2022

  • Exterior Motorized Passive House Shading and Controls – Passive House Minnesota – 2022 – Learn about the value and implementation of exterior motorized shading and the benefits of integrated and smart controls from industry leaders Warema via 475 High Performance Building Supply (motorized shades and integrated apertures), Loxone (smart building controls), and TE Studio (Passive House design).
  • Fenestration Symposium 1 – Bronwyn Barry, Daniel Haaland, Adrian Muskatewitz, Helen Sanders – 2022 – The Passive House Standard has driven a global shift in the performance expectations of what a fenestration system can and should provide, and as demand grows is transforming fenestration manufacturing from Ireland to China. Domestic demand and production are growing too, but how do we accelerate this trend?
  • Fenestration Symposium 2 – Bronwyn Barry, Peter Dushenski, Helen Sanders, Stephen Selkowitz – 2022 – The Passive House Standard has driven a global shift in the performance expectations of what a fenestration system can and should provide, and as demand grows is transforming fenestration manufacturing from Ireland to China. Domestic demand and production are growing too, but how do we accelerate this trend?
  • How Quality Windows Drive Comfort, Performance & Design Freedom – Cheryl Saldanha, Ed May – 2020 – Windows have an outsized effect on overall building performance and occupant comfort and health, and you can’t meet Passive House performance requirements without hitting the rigorous thermal comfort demands for glazing. Teams need to understand the ramifications of glazing options early to not get tripped up. From the basics to standards, to advanced modeling and project examples – rediscover how high-quality windows and design integration can provide support for your design goals.
  • Intus Windows – Kurtis Perdelwitz – 2022
  • Passive House Windows – Ben Leer – 2020 – This seminar covers methodologies for selecting PH daylighting solutions, presents case studies and lays out design considerations that apply to commercial or residential, flat or pitched roof, curtain wall systems, historic preservation retrofits and more.
  • Schuco – Luis King, Mike Marshall – 2022
  • Schuco USA – 2020
  • Wythe Windows & Doors – Darren Macri – 2022
  • Zola Windows Under Rocky Peak – 2020
  • 475 LAMILUX PR 60 – 2020