Answering the most common question in Passive House, "how much more will this cost me?": the factors behind the answer, how we assume value, and how to communicate it in energy, health, comfort, and indoor air quality.
A single-family Passive House on the site of a former cherry mill near Fort Collins, Colorado, designed and built by its architect: the solutions, the challenges, and what was learned. Hosted by Passive House Rocky Mountains.
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Carrick Library: its design, systems, and delivery, with a virtual tour and members of the design and construction team. Hosted by Passive House Pennsylvania.
The basics of marketing a Passive House practice online: identifying your audience, developing your message, and weighing the time, money, and difficulty of each channel.
Chris Magwood, lead author of RMI's report on single-family homes, on why embodied carbon matters once Passive House has cut operating energy, and the near-term and long-term steps that reduce it.
Training for builders, tradespeople, and construction managers, taught with Emu Passive, preparing you for the PHI exam.
A three-hour course on what PHI building certification requires a project to verify, and what it doesn’t: the key drivers of performance, PHI’s requirements and checklists, and how to work with a certifier and the project team. Large multifamily buildings frame the class; the lessons apply to every building type.
The design of Passive House mechanical systems, with a focus on ventilation and hot water: system types, performance specifications, coordination, sequencing, inspection, testing, and reporting for ventilation, heating, cooling, and hot water.
Passive House puts the enclosure first, and the enclosure drives comfort, resilience, health, and efficiency. This course covers its priorities, strategies, components, and details, from cold climates to hot and humid ones and across construction types and building scales, and how to deliver predictable results.
A four-hour course for builders and trades on how Passive Houses are built: the basics, typical construction types, windows and their installation, air barriers and insulation, and new Passive House products, with the details that make performance predictable.
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