Overview: Technical and performance outcomes continue to develop, while challenging us to transcend and transform the world we act in.
Presentation 1:
Latest Developments from the Passive House Institute
Presented by Jessica Grove-Smith, PHI
Description: The Passive House Institute has led the evolution of building industry technical performance standards worldwide for over 30 years, from cold-climate origins to hot-humid projects. The physics-based standards provide an open framework for design. The science, our strongest foundation, is not a checklist — it’s a way of thinking; a platform for creating an architecture of provocative cultural meaning. Hear highlights and latest developments in ongoing Passive House research and how design can accept the challenge to realize work animated by freedom and joy.
Presentation 2: Who Decides What Counts?: Life, Value, and Passive House
Presented by Timothy Lock, OPAL
Description: Passive House has long been defended through financial metrics like ROI and payback, but its power actually lies in something far more radical: by placing consistent limits on energy use, it frees architectural design to imagine and create buildings organized around human life rather than financial value. Project examples show that when energy becomes a settled social constraint, design regains its generative freedom—so architects, clients, and communities can redefine value in their own terms and actively remake the world through the buildings they choose to build.
1.25 AIA & 1 PHI CEUs
