PHCA Community Meeting | Recognizing Passive House Performance within California Title 24

This presentation will explore how Passive House (PH) residential projects perform relative to California’s 2025 Title 24 Energy Code by comparing the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP), WUFI Passive, and California’s CBECC compliance software across all 16 California climate zones for illustrative single-family and multi-family prototypes. It encompasses a structured comparison of how the same Passive House-related design strategies are represented across modeling platforms, where assumptions can be aligned, and…