Mortgage banker Teresa Lopez on how high-performance and Passive House homes are valued and financed: green financing programs, and how to show appraisers and lenders the value of energy savings, resilience, and long-term cost benefits.
A multifamily case study of Boston, the first major US city to mandate Passive House, with strategies on engaging senior clients, guiding contractors through a first Passive House, PHI product certification, low-carbon envelopes, and all-electric design.
Stuart Mitchell, an NFPA-certified wildfire mitigation specialist, on how fire weather turns wildland fires into urban conflagrations, and on hardening buildings, landscapes, and communities, drawing on research and the 2025 Los Angeles fires.
Architect and ecodistrict planner Michael Eliason makes the case for low-carbon ecodistricts that address housing shortages equitably while planning for climate change: social housing, open space, adaptable infrastructure, and car-free or car-light streets.
Emu's analysis of 11 single-family homes built to Passive House standards across California's climate zones, evaluated for comfort, indoor air quality, durability, heating and cooling loads, and energy efficiency, in conversation with PHN's Ken Levenson.
Sam Bloch, author of Shade, on why access to shade is becoming essential infrastructure as cities heat up, how awnings, trees, and better urban design can cool them, and how expanding shade can make a cooler, fairer future.
A panel on the business case for Passive House: how comfort, health, and energy efficiency can raise net operating income and return on investment, open better financing, and create a more valuable asset.
Passive House answering destruction and affordability: a Fort Collins, Colorado, municipal pilot uniting partners to build Passive House affordably and repeatedly, and Altadena homeowners displaced by the Los Angeles fires rebuilding as Passive Houses together.
The opening of PHN's 2026 conference at Hotel Marcel: remarks from PHN, PHI, and event partner Swegon, and a keynote by Bruce Becker, the hotel's owner, architect, and developer, on how Hotel Marcel came to be.
As Passive House requirements spread in Massachusetts, how are the outcomes being felt? Housing production remains robust in communities that adopted Passive House codes, and at utility scale, mass adoption cuts heating and cooling peaks enough to avoid costly grid upgrades.
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