Passive House Week In Preview: January 17

Read on for a selection of Passive House happenings, deadlines, and developments to put on your radar this week. The featured project above is the Seminary Hill Cidery .

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1. TUE: Balancing Carbon with Passive Straw Bale Construction

On January 18 Abby Meuser-Herr, from Precipitate Architecture and Planning, and Passive House homeowner Katie Jones will join the Construction Tech crew to dive into straw bale construction and Passive House. Adapting the traditional straw bale methods, Abby and her team were able to incorporate Passive House principles like reducing thermal bridges and addressing airtightness using natural plasters. Get the Construction Tech Zoom Link.

2. WED: Designing, Building, and Living in a Passive House

DEMO Architects founder Alessandro Ronfini will present the Olive Passive House at the Global Passive House Showcase on January 19. Alessandro designed and built the Olive Passive House as a prototype to prove that sustainability and comfort can coexist with most of the elements and materials defining contemporary architecture. Get the Showcase Zoom Link.

3. NOW LIVE: Episode 70 of the Passive House Podcast

Passive House Podcast guest cohosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Anne Vogt of VAND arquitectura passivhaus based in Madrid, Spain. Anne shares her introduction to Passive House in Germany, the connections she found between bioclimatic design and Passive House design, her work to help establish the Plataforma de Edificación Passivhaus (PEP), and her extensive portfolio of Passive House work in Spain. Listen here.

4. REGISTER: Building Performance Episode 4, January 27

The fourth episode of the Building Performance Interactive will focus on super-insulated airtight timber frame construction to accelerate strategic design and development of Passive House projects. Expertise, fast building techniques, along with high-quality and energy saving materials are required in assuring high-performance. To illustrate this point, we will visit the construction site of a new build Passive House in the UK to speak with Adrian Williamson and Lee Broomhall involved in the process. Register.