Session · Climate and resilience · Builders and trades

PHN Presents: California, Wildfires, & Resilience

Mike Horgan, Cairn Collaborative Design-Build · PHN Presents

Mike Horgan of Cairn Collaborative Design-Build and Horgan Design-Build on his path into Passive House as a design-build firm and his work in wildland-urban interface (WUI) zones, with examples from several climates and countries.

Key points

• Why a builder adopts Passive House methods, and the business model behind it.
• Resilient approaches to building in a WUI zone.
• How a design-build firm uses design and construction to inform each other.
• Key strategies for resilient building outcomes.