Please read on for a selection of PHA Live Event, Featured Article, Podcasts, New videos, Events, and What We're Reading.
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Event
Announcing the 24-hour, around-the-world, global online happening
1. PHA Live Event
No PHA Live Events This Week
2024 Passive House Accelerator LIVE! Schedule:
First Wednesday: 101 Edition explores the fundamentals of Passive House and the application of basic principles, as taught by expert designers and tradespeople. (Note: First 101 event is on 2/1)
Second Wednesday: Next Gen Edition highlighting the work of the next generation of practitioners and how their contributions are shaping the future of Passive House.
Third Wednesday: Project Showcase Edition featuring fast, factual, and fun presentations about Passive House projects.
Fourth Wednesday: Construction Tech Edition diving into the technical, the technique, and the technology of Passive House construction practice.
As always, Passive House Accelerator LIVE! is free and open to all comers, regardless of experience level, preferred certification type, profession, or geography. It’s a (virtual) place for the Passive House curious and the Passive House expert to come together and share lessons learned and best practices. An interactive Q+A session will continue to follow all of our LIVE! presentations.
We will be posting more updates about the 2024 programming in next week’s Passive House Weekly, so stay tuned!
2. Featured Article of the Week
3. METROPOLIS Video Features Brooklyn PH
4. Passive House Podcast Episode
New bonus episodes recorded at PhiusCon are now live! Listen Here
Thank you to our sponsor Zola Windows for making the Passive House Podcast at PhiusCon possible. Keep an eye out for new episodes featuring influential thought leaders over the next few weeks!
THANK YOU to Our Manufacturer Sponsor of the Week
5. New Videos
1/27/24
Join us for Reimagine Buildings '24 on March 7-8, 2024
Announcing the 24-hour, around-the-world, global online happening: Reimagine Buildings ’24.
Video
12/14/23
Partel Component Spotlight | Weather Tightness and Protection for Modern Methods of Construction
Hugh Whiriskey, Founder and Director of Partel, joined us for a Component Spotlight event featuring Superior Weather Tightness and Protection for Modern Methods of Construction.
Video, Envelope and Structure, PH Component Spotlight
12/13/23
Layering Thermal Control into an Existing Building
Nakita Reed shares insights into the retrofit of the Compound Rowhouse project in Baltimore, which involves the transformation of four dilapidated row homes into two cutting-edge communal residential units.
Video, Retrofit, Passive House Accelerator Live
6. Upcoming Passive House Happenings
THIS WEEK: Events In the Passive House Community
Phius Alliance New York
2023 Phius Alliance NYS Winter Quarterly (Dec 20)Passive House Rocky Mountains
PHRM Chapter Meeting (Dec 20)
Do you have Passive House news that we should share in a future edition? Email us at: [email protected]
Future Events!
Passive House Rocky Mountains
PHRM Chapter Meeting (Jan 17)Passive House Institute
PHPP Expert Course (Sep-Jan)
Online PH Designer/Consultant Course in English (Oct-Dec)
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Join Reimagine Buildings, a groundbreaking 24-hour global online conference by Passive House Accelerator, shaping the future of low-carbon building.
Upcoming Conferences
Reimagine Buildings '24 (March 7-8)
Building Energy Boston (March 19-20)
27th International Passive House Conference (April 5-6)
Living Future 2024 (May 7-9)
ASES SOLAR 2024: Connecting Technology & Policy (May 20-23)
Greenbuild 2024 (Nov 12 -15)
7. What We're Reading
‘The future is renewable’: How a huge gamble sealed COP28 deal (The Guardian)
COP28 climate deal ‘stab in the back’, activist Greta Thunberg says (Reuters)
COP28 president says his firm will keep investing in oil (The Guardian)
Our patients need us to stand up to Big Oil (MedPage Today)
Sustainability begins at home (El País [English])
U.S. tax credits to spur clean energy face scrutiny over Chinese investments (New York Times)
How to build an affordable Passive House (The Property Tribune)
Canada revives wartime housing strategy to address housing crisis (CityLab)
What we can learn from one Florida community about climate resilience (Next City)
Opinion: Universal housing vouchers are key to ending a national crisis (City Limits)