Top Passive House Tweets of the Last Week - March 15

Join us on March 17th for an evening of casual conversation at our Vancouver Passive House Pulse event.

Guest speaker, Jamie Harte, an Associate at @PUBLICVancouver. He is also an Architect AIBC and Certified Passive House Designer.

Register now: https://t.co/GodfYIqcAv pic.twitter.com/91YlbCVT6m

— Passive House Canada (@PassiveHouseCan) March 14, 2022

Learn more about the first-of-its-kind Developer's Summit and explore the brand new website: https://t.co/QgvgMXl48x pic.twitter.com/D6L9mV5zpM

— Phius (@PHIUS1) March 13, 2022

Shortlisted for a 2022 RIAS Award Ostro by Paper Igloo is a contemporary and exemplary low-energy dwelling on the periphery of Kippen’s Conservation Area. A Certified Passivhaus, the building achieves extremely low operational and embodied carbon emissions. pic.twitter.com/EzJyFwtn3R

— RIAS (@RIASmembership) March 14, 2022

If you want to save on energy, this article on all things Passive House might come in handy.👌

With our straw wall system, the standard can be easily achieved as it is a certified Passive House component.🌱https://t.co/AGlYmCII6T

— EcoCocon - Straw Wall System (@Ecococon) March 10, 2022

"When Maine builder Jesper Kruse began marketing a... passive house a dozen years ago, the dwellings appealed mainly to a small cohort..."
Great article on HOW and WHY to build passive. Nice one Jesper, Maine Passive House & @climate https://t.co/VnK5dHjlOy#MaineWontWait pic.twitter.com/Cqn5af1E3p

— passivhausMAINE🌲🦞🌎💫🏗🏬🏘 (@passivhausME) March 10, 2022

really wish we did development in the US that was like this

thin buildings
many meeting passivhaus
mass timber
baugruppen galore
ample social housing
ample open space
slow streets
daycare integrated into development pic.twitter.com/nlgxrNEui3

— wohnBAUMoffensive (@holz_bau) March 12, 2022

ideas to reduce addiction to Russian (and other) gas & oil

- heatpumpify & retrofit existing homes
- all new builds passivhaus, full electric
- scale up renewable energy generation
- build safe cycle infrastructure to encourage people to swap cars for bikes
- subsidise ebikes

— Juraj Mikurcik 🚲🌻🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine (@JurajMikurcik) March 12, 2022

South West College has been awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2020/2022. Their new campus in Enniskillen is the first educational and currently largest Passive House Premium-rated building in the world. https://t.co/8W9pGDamfM

— International Passive House Association (@the_iPHA) March 12, 2022

Our Cranmer Road project for @Kings_College, Cambridge has been Highly Commended at this year's @CTAwards. Another recognition for the first major #Passivhaus development in the city.

Read more about it here: https://t.co/2KKLFsKRIS#sustainablearchitecture pic.twitter.com/xQKR56JqSk

— Allies and Morrison (@alliesmorrison) March 14, 2022

This is excellent short video of the Passivhaus-standard retrofit of a Glasgow tenement by @johngilbertarch @Drew_Carr_ A 5 min summary of the key elements of retrofit and a demonstration of what it takes to get to the very highest standards. https://t.co/LjR4AM2d9m

— Loco Home Retrofit (@loco_retrofit) March 14, 2022