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TOP PASSIVE HOUSE NEWS LAST WEEK

Passive House Accelerator
Passive House Accelerator
– August 31, 2020

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Here’s a roundup of last week’s top Passive House tweets!

This September, learn more about designing and delivering Passivhaus educational buildings in Passivhaus Trust’s new mini-series. This course will be free to everybody working in local government, at universities, and schools.

Kansas City’s Second + Delaware, will begin welcoming its first tenants in October.

Passive House senior housing development Betances Residences, located in South Bronx, has topped out construction. Once complete, the residence building will contain 130 studios and 22 one-bedroom apartments.

Coventry’s Foleshill Health Centre has been given the green light in the UK. This building will be the first healthcare development built to Passivhaus standards.

North Wales welcomed new building plans for 350 carbon-zero homes. The build is by Creating Enterprise and Beattie Passivhaus. The houses are planned to be built using timber frames made from locally-sourced materials with an on-site factory to reduce carbon emissions.

The Guardian released a new article focusing on how women are transforming the construction industry, specifically mentioning more sustainable concrete alternatives, social justice, and poverty alleviation.

Es Tresidder, a Passivhaus designer, emphasized the findings of the Committee on Climate Change’s (UK) report that we need to increase renewables while also decrease Passivhaus level demands for new builds. He proceeds to give further critiques of current builds, such as window glazing and frame ratios.

The iPHA’s Passipedia is an online resource with information on all things Passive House. It even includes municipal decision-makers, who could greatly benefit from their municipalities section to find solutions to improve building performance and climate protection locally.

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