Description

Description

This course will introduce Passive House principles and processes in the context of school design and construction. It will elaborate on issues typical to schools: mixed uses, varied use patterns, commercial kitchens, ventilation, electrification, and more. The instruction will be supported with real-world examples from the US and worldwide. Learners will emerge with a concrete sense of what Passive House offers our educational systems and how we might start to implement them.

Learning Objectives:

1. Outline the basic principles of Passive House and their historical development. 
2. Describe the unique challenges schools pose in reaching Passive House performance. 
3. Outline the strategies and the processes to meet the challenges and successfully reach Passive House performance. 
4. Describe the real-world application of challenges and successful strategies in delivering Passive House schools. 

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.