Passive House Certification Revealed
PHCA Community Meeting October 21, 2025: This presentation provides an overview of certifying a Passive House building with the Passive House Institute. The process isn’t…
Liquid Applied Intelligent Membranes: The Latest for High Performing Buildings
Intelligent Membranes joins us to provide an overview of the role of liquid-applied solutions in enhancing airtightness and sustainability in construction. This session will examine…
Non Combustible Stone Wool (Mineral Wool) Solutions for Thermal, Fire, Sustainability and Sound Control
The net energy savings realized in a properly insulated building are well understood. However, as design professionals strive to maximize thermal resistance, yet reduce mass…
Making Passive House Your Sales Superpower
From Friend to Educator to Advisor Many of us study Passive House because we believe that Building to Passive House can reduce the built environments’…
Passive House & Fire Resilience | Building Forward
Growing wildfire devastation demands better-protected buildings – better protected by building design and better design of their surrounding landscape. Yet, after fire events, like in…
Building for People
In Building for People, architect and ecodistrict planner Michael Eliason makes the case for low-carbon ecodistricts and presents tools for developing these residential and mixed-use…
Right-Sizing Plumbing in Homes and Apartment Buildings (presented by Southern California Edison)
Description: Effective July 1, 2024, the Appendix M, Peak Water Demand Calculator (WDC) became part of the California Plumbing Code. Instead of using flow rates and…
PHN Presents: Pickleball Meets Passive House
Just north of San Antonio, Texas, headed toward Austin, a Passive House pickleball sports center is rising. 12 indoor courts over 30,000 SF are set…
“Build it Tight and Ventilate Right: High Performance, Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery” (presented by 475)
Building high performance buildings, up to and including Passive House certified, means we need to ‘Build Airtight and Ventilate Right’. This presentation discusses the importance…
Passive House Meets the Challenge of California’s Extreme Inland Climates
This presentation will share information on the performance-based design, modeling, and construction of a Passive House in Morongo Valley California. The nearly completed home will…
“An Epic Challenge” | Apartments That Are Off-Grid
“An Epic Challenge” | Apartments That Are Off-Grid and 100% Renewable, Using Vehicle-to-Grid Battery Back-Up, Cost Effective Embodied Carbon Reduction, Passive House Envelope and Power…
“It Takes A Village: Lessons Learned From Passive House Training And Community Engagement” | Community Meeting
Description Since moving to Colorado in 2017, Emu Passive has become the main provider of hands-on Passive House training for Builders and Tradespersons across the…
