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New Tool Streamlines Passive House Modeling of Large Residential Buildings

The Passive House Institute (PHI) is first and foremost a research institution, with a dynamic staff that is constantly working to improve its algorithms and software tools for modeling, planning, and certifying Passive House buildings and components. PHI’s research translates often into tangible benefits for Passive House practitioners, and a great place to catch up …

Certification: Good Data Drives Great Results

Passive House Institute (PHI) certification is the framework and map that ensures your team stays on the pathway to achieve the desired high-performance results. Certification is encouraged of professionals designing Passive House buildings, of building components critical to Passive House performance, and of the Passive House building construction and commissioning itself. Each certification complements the …

ANNOUNCING THE FORMATION A NEW CHAPTER: PASSIVE HOUSE WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA

The national network grows to include a long-time affiliate organization as an integrated chapter. New York, NY. May 18, 2020 – The North American Passive House Network (NAPHN) is proud to announce that a new Chapter has been made in its national network: Passive House Western Pennsylvania (PHWPA). Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, PHWPA has been …

Embodied Carbon—The New Black

Passive House’s relentless focus on operational energy in buildings has sometimes relegated upfront carbon emissions from building materials to an understudy role—but that’s changing. Increasingly the best-laid climate plans for the building sector are addressing both operational and embodied emissions. Are you ready for the new black? Attend Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future to …

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You + Program + Conversation = Co-Creation

Co-Creation is the production of insights and meaning in conversation. Your conversations drive your processing power and make information more accessible, actionable, and valuable. At PH2020 you’ll find the strong program you expect from NAPHN with the best information, the most relevant advice, and your peers’ powerful stories demonstrating their journeys. But now, you can …

Save The Dates

Einstein said that time is relative, but haven’t you found the pandemic really warping things? How long has it been? As #PH2020 moved quickly from the ground in NYC to the cloud everywhere, time slowed, and our perspective on what a conference could or should be changed too. Consequently, rather than trying to stuff 30 sessions into …

ANNOUNCING THE #PH2020 CONFERENCE VIRTUAL BUILDING TOUR COMPETITION

We will miss walking into Passive House buildings as part of the conference experience this year – the personalities, the stories, the details, and the context that help bring alive the possibilities. So while we can’t do it in-person, locally, we have the opportunity to visit buildings from anywhere and everywhere. Are you experienced? If …

THE RADICAL RELAUNCH OF PH2020: WHY WE ARE DOING THIS and WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

We could have put off the NAPHN conference to 2021 and be done with it. Instead, we chose to pivot to an online event. In March, when we announced the move, NAPHN Board President Bronwyn Barry stated: “It’s a drastically different world today, and we’re working to make our conference a vital source of community …

Tools, Talks and Resources for Getting it Done

NAPHN’s Passive House 2020 is focused on urging developers and owners who have power of pen to make each decision their building technology to support the “passive house”. We all generally have an idea that this works, we know that government is moving in that direction, but what we need are tools to get there. …

PASSIVE HOUSE 2020 CONFERENCE: ANNOUNCES THAT IT IS GOING VIRTUAL

The virtual conference is planned to be bigger and better! In response to the social disruption, today, and for the foreseeable future, caused by the COVID-19 virus, the North American Passive House Network (NAPHN) has chosen to not cancel its conference, Passive House 2020: Choose Your Future, but instead, will move it online as a virtual …