The Weekend View: Mass Timber
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 [...]
The Weekend View: Sawkill House
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 [...]
The Weekend View: Carrick Library, America’s First Certified Passive House Public Library
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, [...]
The 2023 PHN Conference Presents: Workshops and Buildings Tour
Stop By Early or Stay a Little Late: Announcing the 2023 PHN Conference Workshops and Buildings Tour We'll be flying in early for six incredible workshops and sticking around another day [...]
The Weekend View: Getting Political with Building Performance Policy
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: Minneapolis’ first certified Passive House affordable housing project
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 [...]
The Weekend View: Passive House in our Schools
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 [...]
Sharon Gaber: A Champion of Climate Action, 1973 – 2023
We are deeply saddened by the death of Sharon Gaber, The Passive House Network's longtime General Manager and Director of Education. She died Saturday, August 5 - with her family in upstate [...]
The Weekend View: How to Retrofit Buildings in a Climate Emergency
From Fires to Floods: Retrofits and our Climate Emergency in Mind This week, we've been thinking a lot about how to respond to our ongoing climate emergency. As firefighters battle [...]
PHN Issues New Report on Passive House Multi-Family Buildings
Press Release July 26, 2023 Contact: Peter Jensen, Sunstone Strategies, peter@sunstonestrategies.org, 360.820.3704 Passive House buildings are vital to withstanding the climate crisis and they just hit cost-parity in the U.S. So why [...]
