Building Electrification: A Passive House Symposium

Zero-emission buildings are the priority for a decarbonized built environment, and electrification powered by clean energy, utilizing batteries and heat pumps, is entering the popular psyche. The call is to “electrify everything!” However, what’s often lost is that electrifying typical buildings is impractical, resulting in overwhelmed utilities and skyrocketing costs while burdening us with the same poor-performing buildings. Passive House can transform the possibilities. Electrification leveraged by Passive House performance lowers the burden on the utilities and preserves affordability while dramatically improving resilience and equitable outcomes. Electrification x Passive House is the winning formula, and this symposium, with experts from Europe and the US, explores the guts of it all. So, if you want to electrify everything, join us and learn how to electrify buildings the Passive House way.

Featured Presenters:

Jessica Grove-Smith, Passive House Institute, Germany
Bronwyn Barry, PassiveHouseBB, San Francisco, CA
Tim Eian, TE Studio, Minneapolis, MN
Bruce Becker, Becker + Becker Architects, New Haven, CT
Dylan Martello, Steven Winter Associates
Paul Ormond, Massachusetts DOER