The Golden Ticket: Tips and Tricks to Streamline your Passive House Certification Experience There’s a lot that goes into building a Passive House, and that includes the certification process. While not everyone [...]
The 1st Annual PHN Climate Design Awards Winners Announced The Passive House Network is honored to present the first annual Climate Design Award winners. Spanning all of North America’s dynamic topography, [...]
The Path Forward: Stepping Up to the Passive House Policies We Want The 2023 Passive House Network Conference is off to a roaring start. Yesterday, Passive House enthusiasts from this continent [...]
Wood if We Could: Mass Timber for Academic & Public Buildings A big part of building Passive House is an awareness of the materials being used. It takes energy to produce these [...]
Reclaiming the Future: America's First Certified EnerPHit Wooden Row House Sawkill Lumber is a Brooklyn-based supplier of reclaimed and new wood products. The owner, Alan Solomon, found himself supplying products to [...]
More Than a Space for Books: America's First Certified Passive House Public Library Is Passive House just for houses? You’ve probably been asked this question before. And the answer, of course, [...]
Getting Political: Lessons from Building Performance Policy Battles in Minneapolis With all the exciting news of the completion of Bright Haus #1, we thought it would be a great time to [...]
Bright Haus #1: A Milestone 15 Years in the Making On August 14th, Minneapolis’ first certified Passive House affordable housing project was celebrated with a plaque mounting ceremony. Complete with triple [...]
Back to School: A Case Study for Passive House in Academic Buildings If you haven’t heard this week’s great news yet, here are the bullet points: last Tuesday, a judge [...]
Low Income Housing Tax Credits The Sleeper Stimulant Policy By Zachary Semke One of the more exciting Passive House policy breakthroughs to emerge in the United States over the past [...]
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