Event presented by Reimagine Buildings Collective
Tuesday, June 16th from 12pm-1pm eastern (Virtual)
Massachusetts has a pipeline of more than 30 million square feet of Passive House projects, compared to roughly 12 million square feet built across the entire United States to date. That scale-up means hundreds (maybe thousands) of practitioners designing, building, and certifying Passive House projects, many for the first time, and the lessons emerging from Massachusetts will matter to anyone working toward high-performance buildings. In this fireside chat, Michael Ingui talks with Alexander Gard-Murray, Executive Director of Passive House Massachusetts, about what project teams are running into on the ground, and how the community of practice is rising to meet it. They'll explore the policy drivers behind the surge, the real challenges of delivering Passive House at this scale, and what it takes to do these buildings well. If Massachusetts succeeds, it can become the playbook for everywhere else, and this conversation is a look inside how that playbook is being written.
A lively Q&A session will follow the interview.
About Alexander Gard-Murray
Alexander is the Executive Director of Passive House Massachusetts. He is also a Fellow at the Greenhouse Institute, a think tank researching climate change policy. He was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Climate Solutions Lab and the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University, and a College Fellow and Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University.
He holds a DPhil in Politics from the University of Oxford, where he studied at Nuffield College. His doctoral work won the American Political Science Association's 2021 Virginia Walsh award for the Best Dissertation in Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics completed in the last two years.
He has published peer-reviewed articles in Global Environmental Politics, Environmental Research & Social Science, Policy Sciences, Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, Complexity, PLoS One, and Current Opinion in Sustainability. He has been interviewed by the New York Times, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, the Hill, CBC, Stars and Stripes, Canary Media, Marketplace, and other outlets.
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