Mary James

• Affordable Housing

Nanaimo Aboriginal Centre Passive Housing

• Video

(VIDEO) Michael Ingui, Baxt Ingui Architects: PH Plus Retrofit in NYC Landmark District

Check out the details from Michael Ingui's Happy Hour presentation on retrofitting for Passive House Plus certification in a Landmark District.

• Video

(Video) Prefab Summit 2 — A Deeper Jump

• Global Passive House Happy Hour

(VIDEO) GLOBAL PASSIVE HOUSE HAPPY HOUR: The Heights

Gesa Zellermann and Scott Kennedy from Cornerstone Architecture talked about The Heights, an 85-unit apartment block in Vancouver, B.C

• Passive House Modelling

Stress Testing for a Changing Climate

Passive House specialist Monte Paulsen grapples with how to design climate specific buildings in a changing climate

• Retrofits

A Multiyear Home Retrofit

Jesper Kruse, builder in Maine, did a phased retrofit of his family's home in Bethel.

• Global Passive House Happy Hour

(VIDEO) GLOBAL PASSIVE HOUSE HAPPY HOUR: Vancouver’s Passive House Proliferation

Chris Higgins, a green building planner with the city of Vancouver, discusses the policy changes that have made Vancouver into a Passive House hot spot.

• Envelope and Details

The Heights: Case study in Vancouver, BC

This mixed-use six story building houses 85 rental units in Vancouver, British Columbia

• Global Passive House Happy Hour

The Happy Hour Lowdown: Artscape Edition

Neil Norris, certified Passive House Designer & part of Morrison Hershfield’s Façade Engineering group, talked about the Artscape project in Vancouver.

• Retrofits
• News

Pennsylvania Wilds Going for Passive

Retrofitted from the shell of an 1897 structure, the reimagined building will be used to support organizations such as the PA Wilds Center for Entrepreneurship.

• Prefab

Prefab Summit Hits Great Heights

Six very experienced prefab manufacturers brought their passion and their expertise to the Accelerator’s first Passive House Prefab Summit.

• Retrofits

A Remodel Designed for the Austin Market

At first designed with the 2015 PHIUS standard in mind, the Austin, Texas, home is now a pilot case for the 2018 PHIUS standard in a hot-humid climate.

• Commercial

Gastown Childcare: Passive House for kids on a downtown Vancouver rooftop

Acton Ostry Architects has a reputation in Vancouver for solving challenging problems.

• Residential

Passive House Under the RADAR

On the gradient between splashy and subtle Passive House projects, Blackstone Apartments falls so far toward the subtle end as to fall off the graph completely.

• Retrofits

Kick-Starting Industrialized Retrofits in Halifax

Lorrie Rand, Principal at Habit Studio, worked with Nick Rundnicki, of RSI Project to found the ReCover Initiative tackling deep energy retrofits.

• Residential

Nine New Flats for Sale in Boston

These Boston Passive House flats combine advanced building envelope with PV array that is expected to offset most of the buildings energy use.

• Residential

Model CLT Multifamily in Boston

Placetailor is making strides in Boston's Passive House market by designing, building and developing cutting edge Passive House projects.

• Events

PassivhausMAINE Virtual Fall Forum

Retrofit solutions, zero carbon building content and the 50 Houses initiative.

• Mechanical and Ventilation
• Market Transformation

RetrofitNY Issues New Solicitation

NYSERDA has issued a solicitation (PON 3519) to design and manufacture what it is calling an energy pod.

Industrializing Deep Energy Retrofits

NYSERDA's RetrofitNY initiative is pursuing industrialized approaches to deep energy retrofits.

• Residential
• Commercial
• Mechanical and Ventilation
• Envelope and Details

Passive House Buildings Magazine Spring Issue

The Spring issue of Passive House Buildings covers exemplary projects, news, useful products, and building science.