Component Award announced for ventilation in residential buildings

Posted by NYPH , August 13, 2015 - General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, HVAC, News, Passive House Institute, Technical

Press Release, Passive House Institute, 11 August 2015 Innovators in the field of cost-effective systems for broad application to be honored [caption id="attachment_5342" align="aligncenter" width="779"] Ventilation With Heat Recovery (Image Credit: Passive House Institute)[/caption]   [caption id="attachment_5341" align="alignright" width="300"] Component Award 2016 (Image Credit: Passive House Institute)[/caption] Darmstadt, Germany. Ventilation with heat recovery is absolutely essential in energy efficient construction. The application of such systems in practice often fails due…

NAPHN15 Conference & Expo – Register Before August for Best Price

Posted by NYPH , July 30, 2015 - Events, General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Real Estate, Technical

There are many reasons to attend NAPHN15 October 1-2 in Vancouver BC.  It has the best Passive House program of any building conference in the Western Hemisphere - ever: http://naphn15.canphi.ca/schedule/.  No fluff.  No BS. Early bird ticket sale ends August 1st so don't wait and register here. 38 speakers confirmed - Passive House designers, builders, sustainability experts and policy advisors from around the world Keynote speaker - Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Director for Centre…

Call for Papers for the International Passive House Conference 2016

Posted by NYPH , July 29, 2015 - Events, General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, News, Passive House Institute, Technical

Forum for energy efficient construction returns to Darmstadt on its anniversary (Press Release, Passive House Institute, 29 July 2015) "Darmstadt, Germany. Big anniversary for the International Passive House Conference: from 22 to 23 April 2016 this central event for energy efficient construction will take place for the twentieth time running. Experts from around the world can now submit their abstracts for the conference program. A special focus of the event…

NAPHN Passive House Windows Workshop Series

Posted by NYPH , July 24, 2015 - Events, General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, Passive House Institute, Technical

The Windows of Change are Blowing When the first Passive House was built in Darmstadt, Germany, there was not a single window on the market that met the stringent Passive House performance requirements. Fast forward to today, and the situation is vastly different: a robust European market with over 200 certified Passive House window products. In Canada and the US, the Passive House market is heating up. With countless low,…

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…

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…

International Passive House Conference 2015

Posted by NYPH , May 5, 2015 - Events, General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, Passive House Institute, Technical

The 19th Annual International Passive House conference (#iPHC19) was held in Leipzig, Germany on April 17th and 18th.  With large contingents attending from North America and China, as well as an emerging group of practitioners stretching across the Mediterranean from Turkey to Portugal, the global effort of Passive House was palpable. The project types continue to expand, from factories, to office complexes to day-care centers, as did the details, from…

“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…

NAPHN14 in Maine, Martin and a Few Inches of Sub-Slab Insulation

Posted by NYPH , October 5, 2014 - Events, General Interest - Science & Lifestyle, Technical

This is a guest blog post by Bronwyn Barry, a CPHD, Passive House California Board Member, and Co-President of the North American Passive House Network. October 3, 2014 This past weekend saw a lively debate on Twitter between Martin Holladay, myself and a few other Tweeps over what amounts to a few inches of insulation. It followed a very successful North American Passive House Network 2014 (NAPHN14) Conference & Expo…

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…