This is a re-post from the iPHA blog. A common misconception is that the Passive House Standard only applies to family homes. In fact, the standard can be achieved for all kinds of buildings including office, retail, recreational and educational buildings. Indeed, in order to reduce operative energy consumption across the building sector, it is …
New board members add critical new perspectives as NAPHN grows at the start of 2021. New York, NY. January 6, 2021 – The North American Passive House Network announced today the appointment of four new board members to the board of directors. This brings the number of board members to ten. Alexandra Kaplan is a …
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You spoke and we listened! Over the past year NAPHN has been been diligently working on a brand new on-demand online training platform for the Certified Passive House Designer/Consultant Training. And we are very excited to beta launch the platform in January 2021, so keep an eye out! The benefits of having an on-demand platform …
Read moreNAPHN to Beta Launch All New On-Demand CPHD Training Platform!
If you are an architect, builder, consultant, contractor, engineer, designer, or tradesperson – Connecticut, like Massachusetts, now offers a 50% cost reimbursement to participants upon successful completion of the professional certification. Take the Certified Passive House Designer (CPHD) or Certified Passive House Tradesperson (CPHT) course, get certified, and get reimbursed for 50% of the course …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Minneapolis MN. December 16, 2020 – The city of Minneapolis has instituted a new pilot incentive program to promote the construction of affordable housing to the Passive House Standard, to help meet the city’s climate emergency obligations. On December 8, the Minneapolis City Council passed resolution No 2020R-353, titled Adopting a Sustainability …
Read moreMinneapolis Connects the Dots and Establishes Leadership in Building Climate Action
By Bronwyn Barry, NAPHN Board Chair A record number of callers showed up at a public hearing hosted by California’s Energy Commission (CEC) last week to review another application for electrification reach code by four small Californian cities. Their applications followed 39 other cities who have already adopted similar local ordinances to override California’s Title …
Read moreElectrification Push Reveals Fatal Flaws in California’s Energy Code
Submission Deadline: Monday, January 25, 2021 Passive House for All is a call to action. Our existential environmental, health and social crises demand that we look beyond isolated symptoms and tackle interlocking systemic causes; across disciplines, from buildings to communities. The event will take on the full range of specialized technical, process, and policy aspects …
The Building Certification Guide, produced by the Passive House Institute, is an invaluable resource for those getting introduced to Passive House and the Passive House Certification process. Sections one and two of this guide are aimed at building professionals and building owners who are interested in energy-efficient construction and renovation. They present the energy standards …
As part of last summer’s Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future, in a series of owner roundtable discussions, owners shared how they think about Passive House, what’s involved in the process of taking on something like Passive House, and then what choices and decisions they made along the way. The eBook is a distillation of that …
Passive House is a concept, an international building standard and methodology, applicable to buildings of all kinds from office buildings to hospitals, new-build and renovations, that results in a dramatic drop in operational energy use, and more comfortable and healthy occupants – meant to aggressively mitigate our climate crisis while providing high-quality construction and resilient adaptation …