Building to the Passive House Standard[1] reduces our buildings’ operational energy demand to an optimized extent through passive measures and components such as insulation, airtightness, heat recovery, solar heat gains, solar shading and incidental internal heat [...]
The first North American Passive House Network 2014 Conference & Expo wrapped up in Portland, Maine, last week and was by all accounts a resounding success. Attendees hailed from across the United States and Canada. [...]
A slideshow of NAPHN14, covering the full event held in Portland, Maine, is now available for viewing. It was a truly inspiring event. We look forward to more great Passive House fun, inspiration and networking [...]
On July 24th, 2014, members of the North American Passive House Network (NAPHN) filed papers to formally incorporate as a cooperative corporation after operating informally since 2011. Representatives from four regional independent Passive House advocacy organizations, New York [...]
NAPHN founding member and President of New York Passive House, Ken Levenson, has posted an extensive report on theGreen Building Advisor blog site. It documents the events and proceedings at the recent International Passive House [...]
A total of 42 Participants from across North America participated in recent trainings hosted by PHCA and NYPH, taught jointly by trainers from the Passive House Institute and the Passive House Academy. Students spent two [...]
PassivhausMAINE is the latest leading regional North American Passive House organization to join NAPHN. Maine is a hotbed of Passive House activity with such trailblazing practitioners as Chris Corson, Jesper Kruse, Kaplan Thompson and [...]
We'd like to thank all the participants that made the Passive House Zone such a great success this year at GREENBUILD 2013: the hundreds and hundreds of visitors, ten top rate vendors, the NAPHN volunteers, [...]
Since welcoming CanPHI to the Network in May of 2013, we recognized that our name was limited, and perhaps too regional. A driving impetus for the formation of the Network was to create an inclusive [...]
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