Your Summer Reading List – Passive House Edition
Your Summer Reading List: Passive House Edition Summer is here, and your bookshelf is calling. Whether you’re looking for a book to unwind with at the beach, kill a few hours [...]
Zero Emissions Buildings as the Framework for the Future
A Definition Towards Success: Zero Emissions Buildings as the Framework for our Future What do Zero Emissions Buildings look like? The Department of Energy has just finalized an official definition. The new [...]
The Houston Power Outage
What it Means to be Safe at Home: Houston, Heat Waves, and Why We Need Better Buildings Last week, in a storm that killed seven, large swaths of the Houston, Texas area [...]
Pratt Ice Box Challenge
Pratt Ice Box Challenge: Empowering Tomorrow's High Performance Designers If you can’t take the heat, build a better kitchen–that’s the moral of the story from last year’s Pratt Ice Box Challenge, [...]
The ICC Board Has Spoken: Let’s Ignore Them and Get to Work
The ICC Board has Spoken: Let's Ignore Them and Get to Work The recent International Code Council (ICC) board decision to strip decarbonization measures from the model building code is a [...]
All Eyes on Spring Training
All Eyes on Spring Training After Winter CPHD Cohort Sets New Record Certified Passive House Designer Students Enroll in Record Numbers, Learning the Principles of Passive House Design Across the Country. [...]
Passive House News Roundup—November 2023
Passive House News Roundup: November, 2023 Where did November go? With all the great Passive House happenings, this month has flown by, so we’re taking a moment to look back and [...]
New Report from Emu Shows Passive House Best for California Homes
New analysis finds Passive House designs for single-family homes will best protect Californians’ health, safety, and comfort from worsening impacts of climate change Well-sealed, highly energy efficient green building design is [...]
The Largest Passive House Office Building in the World
The Largest Passive House Office Building in the World Winthrop Center in Boston, Massachusetts, has opened its doors, and with them, a new era of Passive House possibilities. Recently certified, the [...]
Energy Standards Comparison Study
Energy Standards Comparison Study: A Comparison of Passive House Standards to Baseline Codes There’s an old saying regarding energy modeling, or for that matter, any calculation: Garbage in, garbage out. Today, [...]
