Passive House Weekly May 20th, 2024

The featured project above is A NYSERDA Buildings of Excellence award winner, The Rise. Watch our recent video about the project!

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

1. Event of the Week

2. Featured Article of the Week

3. Passive House Podcast Episode

THANK YOU to Our Sponsor of the Week

4. Videos

5. Upcoming Passive House Happenings

THIS WEEK: Events In the Passive House Community

Passive House Accelerator
Special Episode: The Accelerator Hour (May 29)

EUSEW
European Sustainable Energy Awards 2024 (Jun 2)
outPHit is a 2024 EUSEW finalist - Help us bring home the win!

Appalachian State University
Appalachian Energy Summit / Appalachian State University (June 3)

Future Events!

Passive House Accelerator
Special Episode: The Accelerator Hour (May 29)
101 Series: Can We Eliminate Heating and AC? (Jun 5)

Coaction
Passivhaus Bitesize Course  (Jun 4 - 14, Sept 3 – 6, Oct 8 – 18, Nov 19 – 29, Dec 3 – 13)
Certified Passivhaus Tradesperson Course (Jun 11 – 18, 17 – 24, Sept 3 – 24, 9 – 16, Oct 8 – 15)
Retrofit Delivery Course (Jul 2 - 9, Sept 24 - Oct 1)
Introduction to THERM
Certified Passivhaus Designer Course

Built Environment Plus
Building Tech Forum (June 11)

Passive House Network
Academic Performance: A Passive House Schools Symposium (Jun 20)
International Passive House Open Days (Jun 28 - 30)
Atlantic CPHD | Summer Cohort (Jul 18)

Green Building Solutions
Green.Building.Solutions. Summer University (Jul 13 - Aug 4)

Emu
Online Summer Crew (Jul 24, 31 Aug 7, 14, 21, 28)

Passive House Network
Summer CPHD training (Jul 18)

Emu Passive
Passive Design/Build™ Boot Camp Pittsburgh, PA (June 3-6)
Passive Design/Build™ Boot Camp Fort Collins, CO (June 24-28)

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

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Upcoming Conferences

Retrofit Canada Conference (June 12 -13)

Passive House Canada Conference (June 17-19)

American Solar Energy Society's National Solar Tour (Oct 4)

Greenbuild 2024 (Nov 12 -15)

6. What We're Reading

Ignoring climate change is not a winning strategy (WMNF)
NY Assembly could stall ‘polluters pay’ bill for second year in a row (City Limits)
Utility to invest $16B to upgrade New York electricity grid (Governing)
Market ‘volatility and uncertainty’ hikes Scottish school costs (Construction News)
‘Cutting edge’: Inside a fire-resistant home built in the Marshall Fire burn area (Denver 7)
Construction crew completes first Passive House in Georgia (Atlanta News First)
Texan builds stunning ‘Passive House’ that uses 75% less electricity and literally makes him money: ‘The best way to build’ (MSN)
New green concrete recycles twice the coal ash, is built to last (Technology Networks)
ULI Report: Balancing embodied and operational carbon emissions from new buildings is critical for long-term decarbonization (Urban Land Institute)
How we manufactured a housing crisis (The Fifth Estate)