PHN’s research on Passive House cost, performance, and policy, and the reports from others that inform it. Newest first; each links to the full report.
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PHN reports
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Energy Standards Comparison Study, Task 2: Multifamily Residential Buildings
The Passive House Network · 2026
How Passive House lowers energy use in multifamily buildings across climate zones 1 to 7.
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Energy Standards Comparison Study, Task 1: Methodology and Modeling Parameters
The Passive House Network · 2023
The method for comparing Passive House with the codes and standards in use across the US, with RDH Building Science.
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Stepping Up to Passive: Policies We Want
The Passive House Network · 2023
Four steps for adopting Passive House codes, so market confidence, professional skill, and the product supply chain are in place before baseline codes change.
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Safe at Home
The Passive House Network · 2023
How all-electric multifamily Passive House buildings deliver climate resilience, with cost analysis showing they can be built at or near the cost of conventional buildings.
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Policy That Works
The Passive House Network · 2022
Which Passive House policies are in place across North America, how they work, and which succeed.
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Is Cost the Barrier to Passive House Performance?
The Passive House Network · 2021
First costs for sixteen multifamily buildings, by Bronwyn Barry.
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Policy Resource Guide
The Passive House Network · 2019
Experts on the programs that have done most to accelerate Passive House adoption.
Reports from others
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Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action and Fire-Safe Recovery: Final Recommendations
Los Angeles Blue Ribbon Commission, with UCLA · 2025
Recommends high-performance building standards such as Passive House for rebuilding after the January 2025 Los Angeles fires.
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Appendix B, California Results
Emu Passive · 2023
Results for the 11 California projects in Emu’s study of building standards.
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Scaling Up Passive House Multifamily: The Massachusetts Story
ICF and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center · 2022
How incentives before and after construction grew multifamily Passive House in Massachusetts.
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Multifamily Passive House: Connecting Performance to Financing
Building Energy Exchange, with NYC HPD, Bright Power, the Community Preservation Corporation, and Steven Winter Associates · 2021
Operating data from six multifamily Passive House buildings against conventional peers: savings that can offset added construction cost.
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Decarbonizing Homes
RMI · 2021
Health gains for low-income communities from high-quality electrification, Passive House among the means.
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PHPP V9.6 Validation using ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 140-2017
Remi Charron Consulting, for Passive House Canada, Passive House California, New York Passive House, and PHI · 2019
Tests PHPP against ASHRAE 140, so building officials can accept it for code compliance.
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Pursuing Passive
Building Energy Exchange · 2018
Phased deep-retrofit strategies for an occupied New York City building.
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Framework Guidelines for Energy Efficiency Standards in Buildings
UN Economic Commission for Europe · 2017
Guidelines for transforming buildings, framed on the Passive House approach.
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The Passivhaus Standard on Tall Residential Buildings
FXCollaborative · 2017
A feasibility study of a high-rise mixed-use Passive House building.
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Accelerating Market Transformation for High-Performance Building Enclosures
Pembina Institute · 2016
The early Passive House market and its policy, and the lessons learned.
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Passive NYC
Building Energy Exchange · 2015
Passive House opportunities, resources, and barriers in New York City.
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