Event presented by Reimagine Buildings Collective
Tuesday, July 7th from 12pm-1pm eastern (Virtual)
Tomás O'Leary has spent decades making the case for Passive House, and it's working.
A global leader in high-performance building and a driving force behind Zero Energy Building (ZEB) adoption, Tomás has trained hundreds of certified Passive House designers and consultants through PHI certification. In Ireland, where some of the country's largest home developers have embraced Passive House at scale, his tireless advocacy over the years is a big part of why.
He's also, by all accounts, genuinely entertaining — which makes for a better 90 minutes.
The Summer Sessions kick off July 7 with Tomás in conversation with interviewer Michael Ingui on three problems in Passive House multi-family delivery: how to handle corridor ventilation when passive and active approaches both have a case, how modern methods of construction can compress timelines without compromising performance, and what it actually takes to close the cost gap.
90 minutes. Three challenges. Three solutions. Come with questions.
About Tomás O'Leary, Managing Director of Mosart
Tomás has been in the business of sustainability since 1993, operating mostly from Ireland, the US, and the UK. He designed and lives in the first Certified Passive House in the English-speaking world (2004), and is a PHI-accredited Passive House Building Certifier, Passive House Trainer and Exam Host, operating globally.
He's a passionate advocate for high-performance buildings, a presenter at international conferences, and host of online jargon-free educational videos on building science. Mosart currently has over 12,000 Passive House dwellings on-site as well as multiple non-residential projects including leisure centers, offices, schools and libraries. Its first flagship large-scale project in the US was Cornell Tech's student dorm on Rosevelt Island for which it was the Certifier.
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