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Keith Saechao, Frontier Energy; Marine Sanchez, RDH; Bronwyn Barry, Passive House BB (moderator) · 2026 Conference

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Getting Passive House performance recognized: a modeling crosswalk comparing PHPP, WUFI Passive, and CBECC results under California's Title 24, and Phase II of PHN's energy study by RDH, comparing common building standards with Passive House for multifamily buildings.

Learning objectives

  • Explain how differences in model purpose, inputs, defaults, and output metrics create credit loss when moving from Passive House tools into compliance software.
  • Apply a practical framework for producing consistent cross tool comparisons that can be replicated in other jurisdictions and software environments.
  • Identify which measures map cleanly across tools and which are prone to muted credit.
  • Describe how to interpret site energy, peak demand, and compliance metrics such as long-term system cost and source energy across different platforms, and how to frame results for agencies, utilities, and program administrators.
  • Outline the need for better clarity with technical evidence on where Passive House sits relative to code-minimum and other performance-based pathways.
  • Highlight key inputs and protocol differences between hourly and Passive House energy models, and how those differences affect reported building performance.
  • Provide clear insights to support policy and program design, by placing Passive House among IECC/ASHRAE/LEED pathways and allow increased adoption of recognition of Passive House as a compliance pathway.

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