Passive House and Embodied Carbon in Building Materials
While traditionally focused on operational carbon, Passive House is increasingly addressing embodied emissions. Experts from the Passive House Network will provide an overview of Passive…
Residential Electrification with the Passive House Standard | California’s Decarbonization Goals
The Passive House Standard encourages all-electric building design and construction in homes and buildings, which can help achieve the widescale decarbonization required for reducing greenhouse…
Ventilation Practices for Schools and Residential Buildings
iPHA Webinar February 2021|Speakers: Berthold Kaufmann, Passive House Institute Rainer Pfluger, University of Innsbruck When temperatures drop in winter, relying on window ventilation to manually…
Building design for the renewable energy future: Primary Energy Renewable
iPHA Webinar May 2021|Speakers: Jessica Grove-Smith, Passive House Institute The way we design buildings plays a significant role in enabling the transition to a sustainable…
Embodied energy and carbon in Passive House construction
iPHA Webinar August 2021|Speakers: Benjamin Krick, Passive House Institute, Tim Martel, Freelance Architectural Technologist and Passive House Designer In the first half of the webinar,…
Summer Comfort with Passive Measures
iPHA Webinar June 2021|Speakers: Soraya López García and Jessica Grove-Smith, Passive House Institute Thermal comfort throughout the year – winter and summer – lies at…
The Building Blocks of Passive House Performance
In this introductory course you will learn about Passive House and how it fits with other sustainable initiatives in our efforts to mitigate the Climate…
How to Retrofit Buildings in a Climate Emergency: Stepwise EnerPHit
British Columbia is a front line in our climate emergency. Recent cascading catastrophes there throw into stark relief the call to upgrade our existing building…
Introduction to Passive House Buildings in California
Introduction to Passive House Buildings | Comfortable, Affordable and Sustainable - Passive House Design in California. A presentation by Passive House California (PHCA).
Beneficial Electrification: Connecting Climate Justice & Decarbonization
RMI’s new report Decarbonizing Homes: Improving Health in Low-Income Communities through Beneficial Electrification synthesizes how a holistic approach to retrofitting housing, supported by Passive House…
Scaling Up All-Electric Buildings
A central tenant in the climate fight is that all buildings will go all-electric. Yet for a number of reasons, thus far, all-electric big buildings…
30 years: The world’s first Passive House
Professor Wolfgang Feist talks about the first Passive House in Darmstadt, Germany. In this short presentation, the founder of the Passive House Institute talks about…
