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 Events
5/8/24
Implementing Cutting Edge & Circular MEP Strategies within Passive Mixed-Use Affordable Housing
This free presentation will take place on Wednesday, January 24th at 9am PT / 12pm ET and will be followed by a lively Q+A session.
Passive House Accelerator Live
5/8/24
Elevating Fire Resilient Design with Passive House Principles
This free presentation will take place on Thursday, January 25th at 9am PT / 12pm ET and will be followed by a lively Q+A session.
PH Component Spotlight
2. Featured Article of the Week
3. Passive House Podcast Episode
THANK YOU to Our Sponsor of the Week
4. Videos
Electrification the Multifamily Passive House Way
Building electrification is a key strategy for reaching our climate goals but how do we do it efficiently and with a grid sensitive approach? Multifamily affordable housing has the answers. One of Magnusson Architecture and Planning's latest, Highbridge – a NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence and Blue Ribbon for Design Excellence winner – is a prime example. This fully electric, passive house, which will provide 316 affordable and supportive apartments and 106 family shelter units has the size and scope to offer a variety of lessons and to dispel some of the misconceptions around this work.
Join us for Reimagine Buildings '24 on March 7-8, 2024
Announcing the 24-hour, around-the-world, global online happening: Reimagine Buildings ’24. At RB24 we’ll circumnavigate the globe, unveiling a new, innovative building project every hour, complete with actionable solution sets, expert insights, and key lessons-learned. You’ll connect with peers from around the world and from your region, building the network you need to create buildings that make a difference. Join us!
5. Upcoming Passive House Happenings
THIS WEEK: Events In the Passive House Community
Passive House Accelerator
Construction Tech | With Edward C. Ettinger (Jan 24)
Component Spotlight | Rockwool (Jan 25)Passive House Network
Passive House Retrofits: The EnerPHit Standard (Jan 23)ASHRAE
ASHRAE Winter Conference – General, ASHRAE (Jan 24)Emu Passive
On-Demand ONLINE Passive Design/Build™ core curriculum and CPHT exam prep (Jan 24)ZebX
Productive Disruption: Virtual Decarbonization Planning - Decarb Lunch Webinar (Jan 26)
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Future Events!
Passive House Accelerator
Construction Tech | With Edward C. Ettinger (Jan 24)
Component Spotlight | Rockwool (Jan 25)Emu Passive
On-Demand ONLINE Passive Design/Build™ core curriculum and CPHT exam prep (Jan 31 + Feb 7, 14)
Passive Design/Build™ Boot Camp Brooklyn, NY (Apr 22-26)
Passive Design/Build™ Boot Camp Boston, MA (May 6-10)
Passive Design/Build™ Boot Camp Fort Collins, CO (June 24-28)BEEX
Celebrate BE-Ex! A Decade of Excellence – NYSERDA sponsored (with Doreen Harris speaking) (Jan 31)Peel Passive House
Certified Passive House Designer Course (Feb 6)Phius
Phius Project Cert Workshop (Feb 7)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 one-of-a-kind 24-hour global online conference by Passive House Accelerator, sharing 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)
THRIVE Passivhaus Conference 24 (May 23-24)
Greenbuild 2024 (Nov 12 -15)
6. What We're Reading
Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report says (The Guardian)
As climate shocks worsen, US disaster agency tries a new approach to aid (New York Times)
The world’s cities are not ready for climate change (Financial Times)
A plan to build missing middle housing that actually works: lessons from Vancouver to Auckland (Next City)
World record: tallest mass timber building in North America to break ground in 2024 (USA Today)
What can we do about PVC? (Metropolis)
Sweetcorn-based cladding textiles cut emissions and toxins (The RIBA Journal)
Living off grid and the English houses where you can (BBC News)
Bottom trawling releases 370 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each year (Technology Networks – Applied Sciences)