Passive House and the Public Domain
If there is a question as to what it means to be a Passive House, please see the blog post “What is Passive House?” But if there is a question as to the history of [...]
Why Passive House?
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 [...]
Let’s Make Airtightness Normal
Building Efficiency and Blower Doors: Essential Responses to Sandy By Ken Levenson, "Superstorm Sandy has produced a torrent of meetings, plans, reports, announcements and actions by city, state, federal and non-governmental organizations. Today, before their [...]
NAPHN Dinner at the 2015 International Passive Conference, Leipzig
The North American Passive House Network would like to extend an open invitation for dinner to anyone attending the IPHC in Leipzig this year. This will be the 5th dinner hosted by the NAPHN at the conference. In the spirit [...]
NAPHN14 Success in Portland, Maine
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. [...]
NAPHN14 Presentations are available
We are happy to make the NAPHN14 conference presentations available for wider use. Please see link to a Dropbox folder here.
See the NAPHN14 Conference & Expo Recap
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 [...]
NAPHN15 Announced: Vancouver, BC October 1-2
The North American Passive House Network (NAPHN) is pleased to announce that the 2015 NAPHN Conference & Expo (NAPHN15) will take place October 1st and 2nd in Vancouver, Canada. It will follow the success of [...]
NAPHN is now a Cooperative
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 [...]
Report From Aachen on Green Building Advisor
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 [...]
