Join us online Sept 28, and in Denver Oct 4-5! Today, communities are being stressed and devastated by the escalating climate crisis: wildfires, droughts, floods, conflicts, energy insecurity, poverty, sickness and inequality. It's all connected. At the 2023 Passive House Network Conference we’ll share our ambitions for a better world. Passive House is the platform for your sustainable future. REGISTER
Dear Passive House friends, We are happy to announce that the upcoming 27th International Passive House Conference will take place in Innsbruck, Austria on 5 and 6 April 2024! We are looking for your project experiences, research findings, inventions, and much more for the programme of the 27th International Passive House Conference. Show us your energy-efficient, climate-neutral buildings, your resource-saving concepts and product developments, and join us in taking one…
Moving from fossil-fuel boilers to other forms of domestic hot water heating can be challenging, but it’s doable. This training, featuring Redwood Energy’s Sean Armstrong and Small Planet Supply’s Albert Rooks, offers field experience and strategies for providing DHW in multifamily projects both with and without Passive House envelope measures. As a result of this training, learners will be able to: Explain the energy efficiency importance of designing for recirculation…
Passive House California (PHCA) was attending with a booth as community partner the “My Green Building Conference + Expo”. The largest and longest-running gathering for green building and sustainability advocates in Southern California organized by the U.S. Green Building Council - Los Angeles (USGLB LA). We had many good conversations and reached outreach out to stakeholders informing them about the international Passive House construction standard and building certification. MyGBCE 2023 Website
Our May Project Showcase presentation by Graham Irwin will explore the remodel and Passive House retrofit of a Mid Century Modern home in Sunnyvale, California. The project leveraged a decade of Passive House best practices and detail development in California, along with numerous high-value architectural approaches. The formerly cramped, uncomfortable, dark, and noisy home is now filled with glare-free daylight, connected with the landscape, and constructed to meet the world’s…
Welcome to the iPHA Webinar vault. Here, you can find the recordings of previous iPHA webinars and enjoy them at your leisure. The iPHA webinars are a member benefit free of charge for iPHA members, iPHA members can log in and view the webinars directly online and are offered throughout the year. Each webinar offers two live sessions covering the same presentation, so people worldwide can join at a starting…
Passive House Visitors: The International Passive House Open Days are a great opportunity to learn about Passive House and energy efficient buildings. Get in contact with current owners and learn first-hand what it is like to live in a Passive House and what the building or retrofitting process was like. Some open houses and buildings will even have professionals on hand with the knowledge and tools to explain the technical…
In January the Passive House Institute (PHI) has released the newest update 10c of the Criteria for Buildings in English (SI units). This update is now also available in IP (inch-pound) units for the U.S. market. The updated criteria document consists of a Compact Version and an Extended Version. The latter offers additional guidance and more detailed regulations. DOWNLOAD PDF
Darmstadt/Wiesbaden, Germany. Highly energy-efficient buildings are indispensable for climate protection. The 26th International Passive House Conference demonstrated that a high energy efficiency is also necessary for other reasons: social justice, good air quality for example in schools and health care buildings, and protecting the power grid against overloading are other good reasons to build and retrofit buildings in a better way. "So much of the Passive House is about health…
Target Audience: Building owners, developers, code reviewers, planning officials and design professionals interested in learning about the benefits of integrating passive house principles into larger multi-family or mixed-use projects. In this session, the link between occupant satisfaction and owner satisfaction will be established. Given the importance of occupant satisfaction, particularly in the multi-family residential sector, Owners should consider how they can design their buildings to achieve occupant satisfaction. A survey…
USGBC-LA welcomes you to submit your ideas and presentation abstracts for this year’s MyGBCE. USGBC-LA is interested in proposals that showcase efforts that lead with equity and reciprocity, build community power, consider holistic solutions to climate interventions (e.g., just transition, workforce development, etc.), and discuss approaches at different scales (buildings, neighborhoods, citywide, etc.). We highly encourage submissions that address multiple categories. Abstracts will be chosen to fill 60 minute session slots (inclusive…
Thank you for your interest in the Certified Passive House Designer and Consultant Certification offered by the Passive House Network (PHN) and PG&E Workforce Education and Training. We are now accepting applications to participate in the next Certified Passive House Designer/Consultant (CPHD) training cohort. See the course layout below for the training curriculum, important dates, final examination, and more. Details Training starts April 14, 2023, and runs 11 weeks including…
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