Reclaimed wheat straw in a Passive House wall assembly, with Durra Panel and ECHO.1 Hawthorn Passive Homes as the case study: reducing thermal bridging and improving durability, acoustics, fire performance, and comfort in New England.
A technical case study of a student-built Passive House in Kansas, where a college and industry partnered to teach Passive House from PHPP to the jobsite: how it came about, how it's going, and how other schools can do it.
How panelized prefabrication can reduce risk, improve quality, and make Passive House projects more predictable, from early coordination to workflow, with single-family and multifamily case studies from Washington State.
Low-impact site development as a performance system: how topography, hydrology, and ecological edges shape energy demand, moisture risk, and durability, and how one team reconnects site planning with building performance.
Centralized and in-suite ERVs compared through two Passive House multifamily projects in Vancouver, Vienna House and 981 Davie St.: performance, cost, installation, and integration with heating and cooling.
Drawing on Perkins&Will research, the landscape of regenerative materials, from advanced wood products to emerging options beyond straw and hemp: how ready they are, what they mean for enclosure design, and how to specify them.
The Marnix, the 1965 ING headquarters by SOM, given 50 more years by deep retrofit and adaptive reuse: primary energy down 85% and CO2 emissions 75%, at 20% less than a conventional renovation, per the source.
Lessons from verifying deep energy retrofits in New York City and Pennsylvania: envelope assembly checks, airtightness testing, and HVAC verification, and how they keep field work true to design intent so EnerPHit delivery can scale.
A panel on solar for Passive House buildings in the lower Midwest, whose small loads need smaller arrays: panel placement for winter sun and snow, dual-use PV as shading built for wind uplift, battery storage, and passive heating and cooling.
The airtight envelopes, sealed penetrations, and continuous insulation of Passive House also do the work of fire hardening, traced through a Pacific Palisades retrofit underway during the January 2025 fires and prototypes for Altadena rebuilds.
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