When Minneapolis turned abruptly away from policies to encourage Passive House, Passive House Minnesota and local, regional, and national voices rallied: lessons from where local politics meets global policy goals.
How the Passive House standard supports electrification and decarbonization: its accounting of source energy, the Primary Energy Renewable framework behind it, and the factors at work in a specific project.
One 31-unit apartment building modeled under the IECC, ASHRAE 90.1, PHI Classic, PHI Low Energy Building, and Phius in climate zones 1 to 7, normalized to a common basis: Passive House cut heating and cooling demand and total energy two- to four-and-a-half-fold.
Massachusetts' new energy code, which requires Passive House certification for large multifamily buildings in towns that adopt it: why the shift from EUI to thermal energy demand intensity (TEDI), and how it is being put in place.
Michael Eliason on single-stair point access blocks, the basic urban building in most countries, and his report for the City of Vancouver: how building form and codes affect Passive House performance, embodied carbon, family-sized units, and livability.
How Massachusetts went from one certified Passive House multifamily building to more than 100 in planning in two years: the policies, incentives, and players behind it, the incremental costs, and the training other states can adapt.
The authors of a report to the California Public Utilities Commission on whether California can mainstream Passive House as it moves away from fossil fuels: the argument, the lessons from around the world, and possible next steps.
Monte Paulsen on retrofitting existing buildings for a changing climate, from British Columbia's front line: the policies, the past missteps, and how EnerPHit's step-by-step approach avoids locking in low performance, with single-family and multifamily examples.
RMI's report Decarbonizing Homes on how holistic retrofits, supported by Passive House methods, can improve health in low-income communities and reduce the harms of environmental racism and persistent poverty, with recommendations for action.
A two-hour look at how Passive House design accounts for California’s grid, renewables, and building electrification: PHI’s Primary Energy Renewable (PER) metric and PER factors, how they interact with California’s power supply and design choices, and how they drive optimization, with regional case studies.
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