We are proud to announce that Passive House Western Pennsylvania (PHWPA) has become NAPHN's newest member group. PHWPA is anchored in Pittsburgh, a city pushing to be a sustainability trendsetter. PHWPA is led by [...]
NAPHN member organization, New York Passive House (NYPH), has reported on their blog an important Passive House initiative launched by New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR), titled White House Announces Passive House Initiative. President [...]
NAPHN is proud to announce that Maison Passive Québec is now a member of the North American Passive House Network Cooperative. Maison Passive Québec (MPQ) is dedicated to the success of the Passive House Standard [...]
Net Zero Energy Buildings: Passive +Renewables Everyone talks about Net Zero and more and more people are talking about Passive House. Net Zero Energy Buildings: Passive House + Renewables demonstrates that the Passive House pathway is the [...]
As the popularity of Passive House grows, more public agencies are acknowledging its utility and significance in their planning for a low-carbon future, and are officially incorporating Passive House references and terminology into there regulatory and [...]
October 3, 2014 This past weekend saw a lively debate on Twitter between Martin Holladay, myself and a few other Tweeps over what amounts to a few inches of insulation. It followed a very successful [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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