Passive House Weekly, August 7th, 2023

August 7th, 2023

Please read on for a selection of Passive House happenings, articles, interviews, and developments.

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1. PHA Week in Preview

See you in September!

Sep 2023 PHA Live No Events

Hello, Passive House Accelerator community! While our Passive House Accelerator LIVE! programming is on hiaitus for the month of August, we're publishing new articles to the website, new episodes to the Passive House Podcast, and new videos to our Reimagine Buildings Youtube channel. So please dig in! And you can always check out any previous PHA LIVE! episodes that you may have missed by going to the Passive House Accelerator YouTube channel.

See you live in September!

Our Most Popular Podcast Episodes

Check out a few of our most popular Podcast Episodes of the year below. Want more? Listen to our full library of episodes here.

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2. Featured Article of the Week

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Efficient Housing—Old and New: Densification Via New Construction and Retrofit

New York City’s (NYC’s) housing crisis is characterized by both a lack of widespread affordability and a limited housing inventory. High demand and restricted availability, escalating real estate prices, loss of rent-regulated units, and a deteriorating infrastructure all amount to a call for action from the building sector.

3. Upcoming Conferences

ASES Solar 2023 (Aug 8-11)
ASES supports the global initiative that a world equitably transformed to 100% renewable energy is an urgent necessity. Through the ASES National Solar Conference, SOLAR 2023 will elevate public, institutional, and governmental awareness of the critical role solar energy is playing in the global energy landscape. We must ensure that access to and the benefits from clean energy will be enjoyed by all communities, especially those that have been denied those benefits in the past.

2023 Passive House Network Conference (Sep 28-Oct 6)
At the 2023 Passive House Network Conference, we will share our ambitions for a better world. Today, we have huge opportunities to change course. As communities are being stressed and assaulted by the escalating effects of the climate crisis: wild fires, droughts, floods, conflicts, energy insecurity, poverty, sickness and inequality – let’s explore how we can build better buildings, better communities and a better world. Passive House is the platform. Passive House education and peer-to-peer knowledge sharing has the power to change our vocabulary, our conversations, and our culture. Let’s expand the conversation. The conference program will include industry leading designers, builders, developers, manufacturers, and owners, from across the country and around the world.

Energy and Environmental Building Alliance  High Performance Home Builder Summit (Oct 10-12)
Bringing Sustainability Home, Where Every Home is High Performing, Healthy & Resilient Join EEBA on October 10-12, 2023 in Salt Lake City, UT for a High Performance Home Builder Summit focused on providing the tools and networking that builders, raters, analysts, and architects need to take high performance, healthy, resilient homes to new heights.

BuildingEnergy NYC (Oct 12)
NESEA's BuildingEnergy NYC conference and trade show is a chance to immerse yourself in a full day of networking and intensive learning with your peers from the fields of design, construction, engineering, policy, finance, and beyond. This unique event is designed by and for our community of practitioners, ensuring that the content is useful, relevant, and on the leading edge. Conference sessions present best practices and lessons learned based on real case studies and proven data, as well as showcasing innovative technologies and programs. If you are a building sustainability professional in any stage of your career, mark your calendar now, and plan to join us on Thursday, October 12, 2023 in New York City!

PhiusCon (November 7-10)
PhiusCon 2023 is headed to the Lone Star State! By hosting this year’s conference in Houston, we have our eyes set on the next frontier of passive building: hot and humid climates. The need for reliable, efficient buildings has never been greater in Texas and beyond, which is why now is the perfect time to expand Phius’ footprint in the south. Phius buildings are designed with the grid in mind – providing energy independence and hardening the larger grid system. Despite the challenges posed, the Phius methodology has proven to be effective in hot and humid climates. PhiusCon 2023 will provide an entryway into the Phius community for local practitioners, developers and policymakers, equipping them with a blueprint to create more resilient, grid-friendly, healthy communities.

27th International Passive House Conference (April 5-6)
Look for­ward to the 27th In­ter­na­tion­al Pass­ive House Con­fer­en­ce which will take place on 5th and 6th April 2024 on the cam­pus "Tech­nik" of the Leo­pold Fran­zens Uni­versity in the beau­ti­ful city of Inns­bruck, Aus­tria!
The theme of the con­fer­en­ce is: "Ret­ro­fit. Have an im­pact."
The call for papers is now open. Sub­mit your ab­stracts and be part of the con­fer­en­ce pro­gram for 2024!

4. New Video

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5. Upcoming Passive House Happenings

Passive House Network
New Regional Hybrid CPHD Courses (June-Sept)
Passive House Network Design Award Submissions (Due Sept 4)
CPHD On-Demand Trainings

Phius
Phius Certified Builder Training and Certification Exam (Aug 8 – 10)
Phius Project Certification Workshop (Aug 9)

Passive House Institute
PHPP Expert Course (Sep-Jan)
Online PH Designer/Consultant Course in English (Oct-Dec)

International Passive House Association
Large & Complex Passivhaus Masterclass Series (Sep 13)

Peel Passive House
Passive House Design & Construction Course (Sep 12)

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6. What We're Reading

The world just got its first real taste of what life is like at 1.5 degrees Celsius (Washington Post)
Here’s what extreme heat does to the body (National Geographic)
U.N. Security Council: Food insecurity tops agenda (DW)
Three-quarters of Republicans prioritize the economy over climate chance (NPR)
Can the U.S. power grid handle an all-electric future? (FutureStructure)
Lessons from the U.K.’s transformative social housing system (Next City)
Houston tackles missing-middle housing with major land use reform (Strong Towns)
POAH breaks ground on Chicago affordable community (Multi-Housing News)
Schiller Projects breaks ground on 25 homes using local materials in Asheville, North Carolina (The Architect’s Newspaper)
Bamboo—why isn’t it our biggest building material? (The Fifth Estate)

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