Course Building types Designers and consultants

Multifamily Passive House

Strategies for delivering all-electric, decarbonized Passive House apartment buildings that teams want to build and families want to live in, from theory to practice and completed examples: planning milestones, efficient multifamily design, ventilation, glazing and shading, wall assemblies, thermal bridges, heating, cooling, hot water, electrification, and certification.

Key points

  • The five Passive House principles.
  • Design and construction milestones for a Passive House multifamily building.
  • Approaches to efficient multifamily design.
  • Key Passive House components in multifamily buildings, with design integration and optimization examples.
  • Ventilation, heating and cooling, and hot water approaches in Passive House multifamily.

Topics: Insulation and assemblies, Thermal bridges, Ventilation