Passive House Weekly October 24, 2022

October 24th, 2022

Please read on for a selection of Passive House happenings, articles, interviews, and developments. The featured project above is Phius certified Hudson Passive House

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1. Passive House Week in Preview

WED: Live! from Chicago, PHA at PhiusCon

This Special Episode will be broadcast live from Chicago as the PHA team attends PhiusCon. The event will feature interviews with various PhiusCon presenters by Construction Tech co-hosts Shannon Pendleton, Kevin Brennan, Shaun St-Amour, Mark Wille, as well as Passive House Podcast co-host Matthew Cutler Welsh. We will also be introducing our newest sponsor, Source2050. Get the Zoom link

NOW LIVE: Episode 110 of the Passive House Podcast

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Zack Semke interviews Lisa White, Associate Director and a technical lead for Phius. Lisa has has been with Phius since 2012. She has led the building certification review team for seven years and is an instructor for Certified Passive House Consultant (CPHC®) training and WUFI® Passive energy modeling software training. They speak about why passive building is so important to the grid and for our climate goals, ASHRAE 227P, and the upcoming PhiusCon taking place in Chicago. Listen here

THIS WEEK: Events In the Passive House Community

Passive House Accelerator
Live! From Chicago (Oct 26th)

PEEL Passive House
Certified Passive House Designer Course (Oct 4th-Oct 27th)

Phius
PhiusCon (Oct 25-28)

Passivhaus Trust
Large & Complex Passivhaus Masterclass Lecture Series: Leisure Centres (October 25)

#BSfriday
#BSfriday welcomes PHAccelerator LIVE from PHIUSCON (Oct 28th)

ZEBx
Decarb Lunch UBC’s Latest & Greatest: Passive House, All-Electric and Solar (Oct 28th)

THANK YOU to this week's Featured Sponsor

Visit IKON Windows and Doors

2. Featured Article of the Week

Solving the Passive House Materials Marketplace

Announcing the launch of Source 2050, a true marketplace for the products and materials needed for Passive House and high-performance construction projects. Continue reading

3. New Videos

Join 475's Lamilux Product Consultant Jeremy Latriano as he introduces the Comfort Solo Flat Roof Exit - a high-performance roof access skylight from German supplier Lamilux. The Comfort Solo is engineered to provide roof access without sacrificing performance and also provides an abundance of sunlight. Jeremy will discuss the various product features while also highlighting why the Comfort Solo is uniquely suited for high-performance buildings in the US and Canada.

A revolution is coming in how we design and build our buildings. Leading the way is Winthrop Center, a $1.35 billion tower in Boston that will become the largest Passive House office building once completed in 2023. Learn from the developer, MP Boston, about why they chose Passive House design for this massive project.

Dan Whitmore (Passive House Consultant), Skylar Swinford (Principal at Energy Systems Consultants) and Zack Semke (Director of Passive House Accelerator) join the Project Showcase with an examination of Passive House's impact on both embodied and operational carbon via two case studies. Do we really have to tradeoff embodied carbon savings and energy efficiency? When you combine the impacts of mechanical systems, PV, and actual marginal emissions factors on the grid, the answer may surprise you.

4. Upcoming Conferences

PhiusCon 2022: Emissions Down, Power Up! (Oct 25-28)
PhiusCon is coming home to Chicago Oct. 25-28 at the historic Palmer House. Last year, Phius set its sights on expansion with its motto “Emissions Down, Scale Up!” and despite the obstacles presented by COVID, shared that vision with a sold-out crowd in Tarrytown, New York. PhiusCon 2021 created a wave of momentum, and Phius is looking to carry that into PhiusCon 2022 as it builds for the future. And you can’t talk about building for the future without mentioning electrification, so Phius decided to put a charge into this year’s motto: “Emissions Down, Power Up!”

UKPassivhaus Conference 2022 (October 25-26)
The 2022 UK Passivhaus Conference will be a hybrid event (in-person in Exeter and online) on 25 & 26 October at the Exeter Corn Exchange. On both days, the Conference will include site visits to St Sidwells' Point, the UK's first leisure centre & public pool aiming for Passivhaus certification.

Passive House Massachusetts Symposium (Nov 16)
PHMass welcomes you to join them as they return to an in-person Symposium and Push the Boundaries of Passive House. Featuring presentations, case-studies, panel discussions, and networking, all in-person at the BSA Space in Boston. Early Bird Registration is now open!

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.

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