Passive House buildings across North America, from San Antonio to Minneapolis: homes, apartments, a hotel, a college building, a pickleball hall. They’re arranged by climate, hot to arctic.
To see more buildings in similar climates around the world, search the Passive House Institute’s Passive House Database by climate zone.
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Each project has one or both of two documents:
- Case study: our short illustrated summary of the project, the team, and how they did it.
- Project documentation: the full technical record, for anyone who wants the finer details. Designers who qualify or renew as a Certified Passive House Designer or Consultant this way write up a certified building they planned, in the Passive House Institute’s template.
Climate zones are the Passive House Institute’s, assigned from each project’s own climate data. The US (IECC) zones under each name are their usual matches, and each project shows its own.
Climate zones: Very Hot · Hot · Warm · Warm-Temperate · Cool-Temperate · Cold · Arctic
Very HotIECC 2B
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HotIECC 1A–2
Texas Pickle Hall
San Antonio, TX · IECC 2A
Architect: Urban Earth
San Antonio’s premier pickleball courts, for players of every skill level.
WarmIECC 3
17 Mile Haus
Pebble Beach, CA · IECC 3C
Architect: Passive House BB
A nod to Monterey Modernism, with all the Passive House essentials.
Warm-TemperateIECC 4, and 5B
Java Haus
Brooklyn, NY · IECC 4A
Architect: reBuild Architecture
The renovation, reconfiguration, and vertical extension of a three-story framed single-family house, built to the highest energy standards.
Pine Street Passive House
Philadelphia, PA · IECC 4A
Architect: BluPath Design
A Passive House retrofit of a historic four-unit rowhouse apartment building.
564 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY
Architect: JPDA
An early-1900s row house renovated to EnerPHit in 2017: a two-floor main home with an apartment on the ground floor.
Gramercy Haus
Brooklyn, NY
Architect: ChoShields Studio
A mix of assemblies repairs the structure, gets the most from it, and enlarges the building both outward and upward.
Betances Residence
Bronx, NY
Architect: COOKFOX Architects
Homes of superior quality for formerly homeless and low-income seniors.
Mamaroneck Passive House
Mamaroneck, NY
Architect: a.m.Benzing architects
A 1963 house retrofitted and extended: two stories of wood frame over a masonry basement.
Portland Retrofit
Portland, OR · IECC 4C
Designer: Tad Everhart
A 12-year-old house retrofitted to Passive House, cutting its air leakage by more than 80%.
Sunflower Sanctuary
Louisville, CO · IECC 5B
Architect: Shape Architecture Studio
A home for a family who lost theirs in the Marshall Fire, on a small sloping lot: active and passive solar, large triple-pane windows facing the southern views, an airtight envelope, and energy recovery ventilation.
Build Back Better Rebuild
Boulder, CO · IECC 5B
Architect: Renee Golobic
A home damaged by the Marshall Fire, not destroyed. Smoke got into everything, so it came down to the foundation and is being rebuilt from there.
Millhaus Passive
Fort Collins, CO · IECC 5B
Architect: Greg D. Fisher, Architect
Named for the old Cherry Mill property it stands on, and for the Passive “Haus” principles it follows.
Cool-TemperateIECC 5, and 4C
Hotel Marcel
New Haven, CT · IECC 5A
Architect: Becker & Becker Associates
A historic Brutalist building renovated into a 165-room all-electric hotel and conference center.
Wilkinsburg Passive House
Pittsburgh, PA · IECC 5A
Architect: Studio St. Germain
The first single-family home in Pennsylvania to earn EnerPHit certification.
Forest Haus
Boulder, CO · IECC 5A
Architect: Greg D. Fisher, Architect
The first certified Passive House in the City of Boulder, designed to show that a beautiful home can be highly energy efficient and comfortable.
ACF Passive House
Pine Plains, NY
Architect: Barry Price Architecture
A multigenerational family house on a hillside with 270° views of farmland and valleys: generous common spaces and four bedroom suites.
Park Passivhaus
Somerville, MA
Architect: Placetailor
A single-family home on an urban infill lot, built in 2012–2013. It has performed on target or better every year, and since a small PV system went on in 2016, it has been net positive.
Tree House
Holderness, NH · IECC 6A
Architect: Alchemy Architects
A rural lakefront cabin, the first certified Passive House in New Hampshire: a box of trees carved into the forest beside Squam Lake.
PH in the Woods
Hudson, WI · IECC 6A
Architect: TE Studio
The first certified Passive House in Wisconsin. Finished in 2010, it’s monitored at net zero for all the energy used on site.
Bozeman Passive House
Bozeman, MT · IECC 6B
Architect: Love Schack Architecture
The highest-performing single-family home in Montana’s Gallatin Valley.
ColdIECC 6–7
Six&Kane
Kane, PA
Architect: Moshier Studio, with Inscale Architects
EnerPHit Plus. Finished in late 2022, the renovated building houses a smoothie bar, the Chamber of Commerce, a law firm, business incubator space, the WPPSEF office, and community meeting rooms.
MinnePHit Retrofit
Minneapolis, MN
Architect: TE Studio
A single-family home retrofitted to EnerPHit: North America’s first certified EnerPHit project, and the world’s first certified Passive House retrofit in a very cold climate.
The Catskill Project
Livingston Manor, NY · IECC 6A
Architect: Buck Moorhead Architect
A 90-acre community of Passive House homes, built for clean air and steady comfort in every season.
Davis Center for Human Ecology
Bar Harbor, ME · IECC 6A
Architect: OPAL, with Susan T. Rodriguez Architecture Design
A college classroom building with art studios, science labs, general classrooms, and faculty offices.
ArcticIECC 7–8
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Checked October 2026.
