Passive House is a building standard. It is a voluntary international building standard developed by the Passive House Institute (PHI), located in Darmstadt, Germany – referred to also as The Passive House Standard. The Passive [...]
Conjure an image of home. Of your elementary school. Of your office. They’re familiar. Now imagine your own Passive House. More difficult, right? But what if Passive House can describe a school, an apartment building, [...]
The 19th Annual International Passive House conference (#iPHC19) was held in Leipzig, Germany on April 17th and 18th. With large contingents attending from North America and China, as well as an emerging group of practitioners [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
We are happy to make the NAPHN14 conference presentations available for wider use. Please see link to a Dropbox folder here.
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 [...]
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