China’s first Passive House office building now certified

Posted by NYPH , July 2, 2015 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Passive House Institute, Real Estate, Technical

Press Release, Passive House Institute, 2 July 2015 China’s first Passive House office building now certified Local stakeholders turning increasingly to energy efficiency Darmstadt, Germany. The Passive House concept has reached yet another milestone in the growing market of China: The countries’ first office building designed to this highly energy efficient standard has been certified in the city of Zhuozhou. The building owner and occupant is the company Hebei Xinhua…

Cornell’s New Campus Breaks Ground and Passive House is Main Attraction

Posted by NYPH , June 25, 2015 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Passive House Institute, Real Estate

Cornell Groundbreaking from 475 HPBS on Vimeo. "This spring we said “Passive House Poised To Go Big.” Now we’re saying “Passive House Is Going Big.” On June 16th, Cornell Tech held a groundbreaking ceremony on Roosevelt Island. While the event took place to announce Bloomberg Philanthropies $100Mil gift to the new campus, the “BOOM!” heard round the low-energy/high-performance world was news that the campus will have the world’s tallest Passive House.…

NY15PH: Passive House Conference Gains Momentum in New York

Posted by NYPH , June 22, 2015 - Events, General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Passive House Institute, Real Estate, Technical

[caption id="attachment_4999" align="alignright" width="250"] Ken Levenson, Nilda Mesa, Josh Fox[/caption] New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s watershed report One City: Built to Last looks to Passive House standards to inform how New York might reach its goal of 80% carbon reductions by 2050.  In doing so it raised many questions: What might implementation look like?   What are the hurdles we see?  What are the opportunities? With over 450 participants, the 4th…

Leading Belgian Architect, Sebastian Moreno-Vacca, to keynote NY Passive House Conference

Posted by NYPH , May 27, 2015 - Events, General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, Real Estate, Technical

Press Release, New York City, PRWEB, May 27, 2015 Brussels building revolution sets example for New York City carbon reduction efforts The annual New York Passive House Conference & Expo will make the case that Passive House is uniquely suited to helping achieve New York City's low-carbon future. Photo Credit: A2M “Exhibit A” will be the revolutionary progress enacted in Brussels, Belgium. In 2007, at the time a city of…

NY Times launches Passive House above the fold

Posted by NYPH , March 28, 2015 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Real Estate

The NY Times has just made its latest installment on the progress of Passive House in New York.  And unlike so much other news these days today - with Passive House the news is good!   The article, "The Passive Principle" in print, appears above the fold on the cover of the Sunday Times Real Estate Section, and online is titled "The Passive House in New York".  Written by Alison Gregor, it conveys many important developments.…

“One New York City Rowhouse takes on a changing climate” – Sierra Magazine article.

Posted by NYPH , March 24, 2015 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Real Estate, Technical

Article from Lindsay Abrams from the Sierra Magazine.   Published in the March/April 2015 issue of Sierra Magazine     One New York City Rowhouse takes on a changing climate "It was only supposed to be a refurbishment. Then the city informed architect Thomas Paino and his partner, Peter Johnson, that their 1903 row house in Long Island City, Queens, would need to be raised three feet above the floodplain because…

NYCEEC Closes Market-Leading Green Mortgage for Passive House Condominium Project

Posted by NYPH , December 27, 2014 - Financial Incentives, News, Real Estate

NYCEEC partners with BuildForward Capital and Urban Artisan to enable first Passive House condominium project in Manhattan.   NEW YORK, Dec. 18, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --   "The New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation (NYCEEC), a leading provider of clean energy and energy efficiency financing solutions, is providing a green mortgage to a new Passive House multifamily development in Harlem. Passive House is a voluntary international building standard that results in…

NYPH Press release: Passive House standard central to New York City Mayor’s plan

Posted by NYPH , October 1, 2014 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Real Estate, Technical

PRESS RELEASE   Passive House standard central to New York City Mayor’s plan to reduce carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050. New York Passive House endorses Mayor’s initiative to scale-up low-energy construction.   New York City October 01, 2014 Mayor Bill de Blasio’s new plan to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions from city buildings by 2050 relies on Passive House as a guiding standard for new construction and existing building…

Imagine Passive House

Posted by NYPH , December 3, 2013 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Passive House Institute, Real Estate

Conjure an image of home.  Of your elementary school.  Of your office.   They’re familiar.   Now imagine your own Passive House.  More difficult, right?   But what if Passive House can describe a school, an apartment building, a factory, an office or a home?  And it does.  What if Passive House design can be modern, historical, vernacular, high and low design.   And it can.  What if the “House” in…

Why Passive House?

Posted by NYPH , November 29, 2013 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Passive House Institute, Real Estate, Technical

Building to the Passive House Standard[1] reduces our buildings’ operational energy demand to an optimized extent through passive measures and components such as insulation, airtightness, heat recovery, solar heat gains, solar shading and incidental internal heat gains.   Passive House reliably delivers up to approximately a 90% reduction in heating and cooling demand and up to a 75% reduction in overall primary energy demand when compared to our existing building stock.[2]…

What is Passive House?

Posted by NYPH , November 3, 2013 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, Passive House Institute, Real Estate, Technical

Passive House is a building standard.  It is a voluntary international building standard developed by the Passive House Institute (PHI), located in Darmstadt, Germany – referred to also as The Passive House Standard.   The Passive House Standard is composed of several strict performance requirements for new building construction.  For the renovation of existing buildings PHI developed a similar if slightly more lenient performance standard.   The resulting performance represents a roughly…