How California’s 2025 Title 24, Part 6 energy code addresses Passive House concepts, with a focus on electrification: Passive House principles, methods, and targets, and how they line up with the new code, with regional case studies.
A free on-demand tutorial in FLIXO, the thermal bridge software: an introduction to thermal bridge calculations, and how to set up the template file for modeling details such as corners, intersections, windows, slab perimeters, and parapets. A free limited-use FLIXO license is available for the tutorial.
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.
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 cuts operating energy and carbon; this course turns to the carbon in materials and construction. It covers what embodied carbon means, the frameworks and tools for measuring it, and strategies and case studies for reducing it while keeping Passive House performance.
How Passive House design accounts for the grid, renewables, and building electrification. The course explains PHI’s Primary Energy Renewable (PER) metric and PER factors, how they interact with the power supply and design choices, and how they drive optimization, with regional case studies.
Ed May of BLDGtyp and Maggie Wohltjen of Shape Architecture Studio introduce their practices, make the case for Passive House and what it pays back, and walk through a Passive House rebuild after Colorado's Marshall Fire.
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.
Australian case studies on assessing peak cooling loads for Passive House buildings in hot, humid climates, and how the Peak Cooling Tool gives a quick, independent check of PHPP's single-zone peak cooling load and flags when more analysis is needed.
France's century-old tradition of building with straw: its thermal performance, low-carbon potential, and use with wood and other natural materials, how French regulations enable it, and lessons for Passive House practice in the US.
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