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. [...]
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 [...]
Must Read: Passive House Accelerator Magazine Summer Issue!
Must Read: Passive House Accelerator Magazine Summer Issue! From the description: "Our summer of 2022 Passive House Accelerator magazine issue explores the theme of Outrage + Optimism, a phrase coined by Christiana Figueres, the former UN Climate [...]
Inaugural Trailblazer Award Presented at Conference to MP Boston
Inaugural Trailblazer Award Presented at Conference to MP Boston Left-to-right: Ryan Lobello, Handel Architects, Jimmy Patel, C3, Joelle Jahn, WSP USA, Brad Mahony, MP Boston, Tom Burroughs, WSP USA, Louis Koehl, Handel Architects Inaugural Award [...]
Introducing Kyle Smither-Semon, PHN’s New Education Associate
Introducing Kyle Smither-Semon, PHN's New Education Associate Join us in welcoming Kyle Smither-Semon, PHN's newest staff member. We hope you have a chance to work with him soon!Kyle manages the logistics of all our training [...]
Policy That Works: A New Passive House Policy Report from PHN
Policy That Works An investigation into policies driving Passive House adoption in North America From the Policy That Works opening: "There are currently eighty-six (86) multifamily buildings pursuing Passive House certification in Massachusetts. How [...]
