Passive House Weekly December 26, 2022

December 26th, 2022

What an incredible year it has been! We are thankful for our dedicated team of staff and cohosts as well as our sustaining sponsors, presenters, interviewees, and of course, our community of practitioners. With your help we have continued to strengthen and cultivate a collaborative platform for sharing innovation and thought leadership, and we look forward to growing a larger community of the Passive House curious—and ultimately the Passive House committed—in the year ahead.

In case you missed our most recent Construction Tech event, we announced two new programs for 2023, our 101 Edition and our Next Gen Edition, both of which have been designed to expand the PH community and create an interactive forum for newer practitioners who are interested and curious about Passive House. 

We also announced that after much consideration and feedback from you, our usual Wednesday programming in 2023 will be moving to an earlier time slot, 9am Vancouver / 12 noon New York /  5pm London / 6pm Darmstadt. Our hope is that this shift will allow more of our North American community to tune in and join us during the workday now that we’re in (mostly?) post-Covid times. And hopefully, a few more viewers can join us from across the pond. To our loyal community down under, we have something in the works to accommodate the time change and hope you can join us on YouTube for now.

As a reminder, our programs are taking the next two weeks off. Don't worry! The website will still be publishing new content and you can always catch up or revisit previous episodes of the Passive House Podcast or check out any LIVE! episodes that you may have missed by going to our YouTube page.

See you next year!
The PHA Team

1. Passive House Year in Preview

No LIVE! events this week. Here are the details on programming in 2023!

2023 Passive House Accelerator LIVE! Schedule:

1. 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)

2. 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.

3. Third Wednesday: Project Showcase Edition featuring fast, factual, and fun presentations about Passive House projects.

4. 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 2023 programming in next week’s Passive House Weekly, so stay tuned!

NOW LIVE: Episode 119 of the Passive House Podcast

Zack interviews Mark Lyles, Senior Project Manager at New Buildings Institute (NBI). The two conducted the interview in the PAE Living Building in Portland, Oregon, the site of NBI's headquarters and Oregon's first full Living Building. Mark shares news from NBI's work on the International Energy Conservation Code (IECC), his work helping to develop ASHRAE's Passive Building Standard (227p), his thoughts about the interplay between performance-based and prescriptive-based building code and standards, and his thoughts about what's on the horizon for Passive House.
Listen here

THIS WEEK: Events In the Passive House Community

Passive House Accelerator
No events this week, see you on January 11th!

BS Friday
Steven Baczek Architect (Dec 30)

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THANK YOU to this week's Featured Sponsor

Visit Partel

2. Featured Article of the Week

Multifamily Highlights of 2022

Building better, healthier, and more efficient multifamily buildings are integral to addressing the housing crisis and climate change. Whether in the pages of Passive House Accelerator magazine or during our live events, we hear from a lot of Passive House experts from North America and beyond throughout 2022. Continue reading

3. Top Videos of 2022

4. Upcoming Conferences

NAHB International Builders' Show (Jan 31-Feb 2)
NAHB International Builders’ Show® (IBS) is the largest home building show in North America. This three-day event brings professionals, products and home building trends together under one roof. Join Shaun St-Amour, frequent cohost of Passive House Accelerator LIVE!, at IBS.

BUILDEX Vancouver (Feb 15-16)
BUILDEX Vancouver is Western Canada’s largest forum connecting the holistic building industry. Our attendees join to interact, learn and discover the newest innovations from a market in constant transformation. Join industry professionals who are evolving traditions and accelerating innovation.

International Passive House Association Conference 2023 (March 10-11)
The 26th International Passive House Conference will be held in the state capital of Hesse in 2023. #EfficiencyNOW will be the focal theme of the event. The Conference will demonstrate how buildings that use very little energy for heating and cooling can be supplied with renewable energy reliably and at scale, a timely topic. The Conference will take place in person in Wiesbaden from March 10-11, 2023. Simultaneously, online events will be available. The Call for Papers is open until 2 September 2022. The event will be held under the auspice of the Minister of Economic Affairs of the German state of Hesse.

Northeast Sustainable Building Association, BuildingEnergy Boston (Mar 28-29, 2023)
BuildingEnergy Boston is a conference designed by and for practitioners in the fields of high-performance building and design, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. It brings more than 1,000 industry leaders and emerging professionals together to learn from and share ideas with each other. Sessions are curated by a volunteer NESEA-Member content committee to ensure that conference sessions are genuinely useful to attendees.

2023 Passive House Network Conference (Sep 28-Oct 6, 2023)
Participate online and in Denver Colorado!

5. Upcoming Passive House Happenings

Peel Passive
PeelPHC - THERM Course (Jan 12)
PeelPHC - THERM Course (Jan 13)
PeelPHC - THERM Course (Jan 19)

International Passive House Conference
Early Bird Ticket Rate (Now until Jan 15)

Phius
Window Comfort & Condensation Risk Calculator with James Ortega and Isaac Elnecave (Jan 17)

Emu Passive
Online Passive Design/Build Construction Course (Jan 12)
Passive House Builder Boot Camp in Green Island, NY (Jan 23)
Passive House Builder Boot Camp in Ft. Collins, CO (Feb 20)
Passive House Builder Boot Camp in Golden Valley, MN (Mar 20)

Passive House Network
CPHD On-Demand Trainings
Call For Papers (Jan 31)

Passive House Network
CPHD On-Demand Trainings
Northeast Cohort: Hybrid CPHD/C Course Kick-Off (Jan 20)
Rocky Mountains Cohort: Hybrid CPHD/C Course Kick-Off (Jan 20)
Call For Papers (Jan 31)
Join the California Zoning Holiday (Feb 1)

World Sustainable Built Environment Conference
WSBE23 Call for Abstracts (Due April 5th, Conference Sep 27-29)

Does your organization have an upcoming event? Submit it here to be included in our next newsletter.

6. What We're Reading

Coverage of climate change in introductory biology textbooks, 1970-2019 (PLOS One)
Has climate change blinded us to the biodiversity crisis? (New York Times)
Why climate change is intimately tied to biodiversity (The Economist)
U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet (NPR)
EU emissions continue to fall despite return to coal (The Guardian)
No more buts: your buildings need to be climate resilient now! (The Fifth Estate)
California regulators approve plan to slash emissions 85% by 2045 (Reuters)
Government announces Passivhaus standards to be adopted in Scotland (The National)
GSA allocates $300M to first batch of Climate Act projects (Engineering News Record)
Housing starts and permits fall in November (Builder Online)