Schools & the Passive House Standard
Passive House principles and process applied to schools: mixed uses, varied schedules, commercial kitchens, ventilation, electrification, and more, with examples from the US and around the world.
Wildfire Resilience & Passive House
As wildfires grow more frequent, buildings need to be fire-safe and resilient, and Passive House offers a clear path. The course reviews the latest science on wildfires and buildings, the interplay of structure, landscape, and community, and a toolkit for analyzing and carrying out fire-resilient Passive House strategies.
Pickleball Meets Passive House
A Passive House pickleball center rising north of San Antonio, Texas: twelve indoor courts in more than 30,000 sq ft, in a hot, humid climate. The story of its development, its construction assemblies, design process, and the decisions getting it to Passive House performance, with the developer, David Komet.
Rebates and Resilience: Lessons from a Marshall Fire Rebuild
A 1,700-square-foot rebuild after the Marshall Fire on a steep Colorado hillside, designed for wildfire risk, aging in place, and a guest suite, with a high-performance envelope, fire-resilient AAC walls, and utility rebates that made it possible.
D.C. Code Compliance: Passive House
How Passive House principles and the District of Columbia's Energy Conservation and Green Construction Codes work together, with practical tools, workflows, and checklists for plan review, inspection, and construction.
The Catskill Project: Scaling Decarbonized Single-Family Housing
A rural, all-electric Passive House community in the Catskills, occupied and measured: clustered site planning, panelized construction, low-GWP assemblies, and carbon tracking, with what worked, what didn't, and which policies mattered.
From Code to PH Standard: A Denver Home Changes Route
A 4,133 sq ft Denver home designed to code, rerouted toward Passive House. Mark Attard of Point 6 on enclosure upgrades, double-stud walls, airtightness, and mechanical choices as the home heads for the PHI Low Energy Building designation.
The Standard on Fifth: Multi-Family Passive House
Rebecca Griffith and Jason Andrews of Rothschild Doyno Collaborative on The Standard on Fifth, a multifamily Passive House under construction in Pittsburgh, and how its design, development, and funding meet the region's need for high-performance affordable housing.
Are we measuring the same thing? How HERS and Passive House provide different answers to different questions.
The Home Energy Rating System (HERS) and Passive House compared side by side on a single-family home: where and why the two methods diverge, why strong Passive House levers can barely move a HERS score, and how Passive House teams can work with HERS.
52 New Street: Community, Ambition, and Passive House in Cambridge, Massachusetts
52 New Street, 106 affordable rental homes and the first project permitted under Cambridge's 100%-Affordable Housing Overlay. Ben Wan of RODE, the architect, on goals and strategies; Madeline Lee of Just A Start, the developer, on evaluating its Passive House portfolio.
