High-Density Results
Measured Passive House performance: 1,500 sensors in Dublin social housing, making the data public, and Rubin Hall, a 17-story, century-old New York building retrofit to EnerPHit for 700 NYU students, with its results.
Home Security
Rebuilding after the 2025 Los Angeles fires: Passive House as a practical risk-management and resilience framework for post-fire rebuilds, and an Altadena home built with prefabricated enclosure panels in four months.
Refining Residences
Passive House for diverse residents: Mirador de Gràcia, certified senior care housing in Catalonia's warm climate, where overheating is a risk, and Charlotte of the Upper West Side, Manhattan's first PHI-certified condominium in a landmark district.
Deep Multifamily
The Jennings Hall expansion in Brooklyn, 217 all-electric affordable senior homes in a 14-story Passive House enclosure pushing toward net zero: its architecture, and its water-source heat pumps on a geo-exchange system.
Step-By-Step
EnerPHit retrofits taken step by step: a phased approach for three schools in a London district, using PHPP as a decision-making framework within real funding limits, and the reuse of metal buildings as affordable rural workforce housing.
Care for Kids
Passive House for children: the Witset First Nation's Youth Healing Lodge in British Columbia, for the children and families of residential school survivors, and the Upper School at The Bush School in Seattle.
Standard Relations
Getting Passive House performance recognized: a modeling crosswalk comparing PHPP, WUFI Passive, and CBECC results under California's Title 24, and Phase II of PHN's energy study by RDH, comparing common building standards with Passive House for multifamily buildings.
Journey of Improvement
Affordable housing and Passive House delivery: 97-10 Sutphin Boulevard, 173 permanently affordable homes in Queens with a health center, and practical strategies to keep Passive House as the goal from kickoff through closeout.
Pride of Place
Two single-family projects shaped by place: retrofitting an old home on a Greek island with no local Passive House expertise or materials, with the resulting data, and a high-end Connecticut home that makes Passive House performance the expectation.
Middle Matters
Passive House for the missing middle: pHdesign's architect-led development of a PHI Low Energy Building home near Ellenville, New York, and why architect-developers in Washington and British Columbia are turning to prefab panels for small multifamily housing.
