Multifamily Passive House Design (presented by PG&E)

Passive House delivers healthy, quiet, and comfortable homes in durable buildings. Passive House also provides a baseline on which teams can craft resilient buildings capable of sheltering residents from storms and heat waves to come. In this course, we’ll cover a range of issues that go into planning, designing, and constructing affordable Passive House multifamily buildings.  It’s a comprehensive overview, diving into key details, and demystifying the strategies for success.

Agenda:

• Multifamily milestones
• Critical early design considerations
• Ventilation and ventilation systems
• Cooling, shading, comfort, and optimization
• Enclosure assemblies
• Heat pumps and space conditioning strategies
• Domestic hot water
• Certification process
• Q&A

The objective of this course is that at the conclusion, participants will be able to:

• Outline common pitfalls in designing Passive House multifamily buildings
• Describe critical pathways, processes, and milestones in Passive House multifamily optimization
• Outline critical, multifamily components and systems and the sequence of consideration and integration
• Describe how well-established strategies are evolving and being successfully scaled

Continuing Education Credits
AIA. 2.5
BIG. 2.5
BPI. 2.5
CABEC. 2.5