Electrification & Decarbonization with Passive House

Electrification & Decarbonization with Passive House

$145.00

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

12 pm – 2 pm ET

This course reinforces knowledge of basic Passive House principles and methodology while looking deeper into how Passive House design considers the electrical grid, renewables, and building electrification.

AIA & PHI CEUs in progress

*The link to join the training will be sent directly from PHN

Description

Description

This course reinforces knowledge of basic Passive House principles and methodology while looking deeper into how Passive House design considers the electrical grid, renewables, and building electrification. It will explain the Passive House energy metric Primary Energy Renewable (PER) and PER Factors. It will show how PER and PER Factors interact with the power supply and design choices and how they drive optimization. The class will illustrate the goals, strategies, and results with regional case studies.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Explain Passive House principles and benefits.
  2. Describe the Passive House strategy of Primary Energy Renewable, and how it supports electrification.
  3. Outline how Passive House optimization is influenced by current and future power supply.
  4. Describe case studies of homes that achieve all-electric Passive House outcomes and the strategies and outcomes.

Instructor: 

Ken Levenson, Executive Director, The Passive House Network. 

Ken was a practicing architect for over three decades, completing early Passive House projects in New York City. Committed to accelerating Passive House growth and knowledge sharing, he co-founded 475 High Performance Building Supply, was a founding member of the Passive House Alliance, a co-founder of New York Passive House and of NAPHN, which would become The Passive House Network (PHN). Today, as Executive Director of PHN, Ken continues to focus on driving building industry culture change with Passive House education.

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