Passive House in North America. BEYOND PROOF OF CONCEPT Building the Community, Scaling Up + Climate Specific Design

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1 Passive House in North America BEYOND PROOF OF CONCEPT Building the Community, Scaling Up + Climate Specific Design

2 Michael Hindle, CPHC President of the Passive House Alliance Capital Chapter

3 WELCOME TO AMERICA

4 WHAT WE ARE DOING AND WHY The number of days in which the temperature exceeds 100 F by late this century Recent Past, Lower Emissions Scenario, Source: Building Green temperature map images: U.S. Global Change Research Program Photo: Lou Angeli Higher Emissions Scenario,

5 WHAT WE ARE DOING AND WHY THE CULTURE OF WASTE, CONSUMTION AND SHORT TERM GAIN LEG MASON TOWER, BALTIMORE: LEED SILVER

6 WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT IS POSSIBLE Typical site energy: multifamily

7 THE SPIRIT BEHIND THE MOVEMENT

8 PASSIVE HOUSE Minimize Losses Maximize Gain 1. Orientation 2. Thermal Envelope 3. Air-tightness 4. Thermal Bridge Free 5. Balanced Ventilation w/heat Recovery Gentoo Homes, UK Source: NEW YORK TIMES

9 North Americans have a few years of collective experience. The Anasazi (Hisatsinom) C.E. Amory Lovins House, Rocky Mountain Institute, Colorado, 1984 Saskatchewan Conservation House, 1977

10 Passivhaus in Europe from 1991 Passivhaus Darmstadt Kranichstein Fruehling

11 BACK IN AMERICA

12 To change the culture, we must build a community.

13 PHAUS MISSION

14 PHAUS WEBSITE

15 CHAPTERS 1. Atlanta 2. Austin 3. Capital Area 4. Chicago 5. Denver 6. Minneapolis/SP 7. Portland 8. San Francisco 9. St. Louis 10. Vermont 11. Lansing 12. SW Ohio With Activity Brewing In: Montana; Eugene + Bend, OR; Idaho; Utah; Kansas

16

17 NATIONAL WEBINAR SERIES

18 OUTREACH: Connecting and Building Relationships

19 PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

20 OUTREACH Connecting and Building Relationships

21 SPONSORS PROGRAM

22 PHIUS

23 PHIUS PH Consultant Training Over 600 Trained Professionals PH Builder Training Inaugural Class Aug. 2012, Urbana, IL PH Rater Training RESNET Focus on Low Energy Buildings

24 PHIUS Quality Control w/ Verifiable Results

25 PHIUS TAKING IT MAINSTREAM

26 SCALING IT UP: COMMERCIAL, MULTIFAMILY, INSTITUTIONAL

27 MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING Belfield Townhouses, Philadelphia, PA

28 MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING

29 MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING

30 MULTI-FAMILY HOUSING

31 SCALING IT UP: AFFORDABLE HOUSING

32 AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HAS EMBRACED PASSIVE HOUSE Ginger Watkins MADISON-CLARK COUNTY HABITAT BEREA, KY

33 AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, VERMONT J.B. Clancy Architect ALBERT, RIGHTER & TITTMAN ARCHITECTS, INC. Peter Schneider-monitoring MADISON-CLARK COUNTY HABITAT CHARLOTTE, VT THE FIRST PASSIVE HOUSE IN VERMONT FIRST PASSIVE HOUSE FOR HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FIRST MODULAR PASSIVE HOUSE CERTIFIED IN NORTH AMERICA

34 AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH BALTIMORE GREEN FOR EVERYONE Phase 1 Affordable, universal access 9 units 4 out of 9 modeled meet Passive House so far No additional cost Phase II Potential of 55 more units

35 AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH (Source: Katrin Klingenberg)

36 AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH The Orchards at Orenco, Portland, OR Source:Green Hammer

37 AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK (Source: Manuel Muelle)

38 AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH (Source: Manuel Muelle)

39 AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH AFFORDABLE HOUSING EMBRACES PH (Source: Manuel Muelle)

40 SCALING IT UP: INSTITUTIONAL

41 SCHOOLS EMBRACING PH (Source: Katrin Klingenberg)

42 SCHOOLS EMBRACING PH (Source: Adam Cohen, Roanoke, VA) Center for Energy Efficient Design: Roanoke, VA

43 SCHOOLS EMBRACING PH (Source: Katrin Klingenberg)

44 SCHOOLS EMBRACING PH (Source: Katrin Klingenberg)

45 RETROFITS

46 Sidney Place, Brooklyn Heights RETROFITS

47 RETROFITS Park Place, Park Slope, Brooklyn

48 RETROFITS (Source: Tim Eian - TE Studios)

49 RETROFITS Historic, Deep Energy Retrofit Office Building Passive House Living Building Challenge Net Positive Energy Net zero water Pencil Building Gensler Architects

50 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN

51 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN

52 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN Overlay slide

53 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN DOMINANCE OF LATENT LOADS BSC charts on latent loads Dehumidification and Cooling Loads from Ventilation Air; ASHRAE Journal, Nov. 1997

54 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN PHIUS NA CLIMATE SPECIFIC WORK - HUMID CLIMATES (Source: Michael Hughes, CDC Design Studio)

55 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN MID ATLANTIC EXAMPLES (Source: Jim Tetro Photography)

56 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN MID ATLANTIC EXAMPLES Gaddy House, Clarksville, MD Passive House Source Energy Neutral Living Building Challenge Miche Booz Architect

57 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN CLIMATE SPECIFIC ASSEMBLY VAPOR PROFILES Source: BSC Source: 475 High Performance Building Supplies

58 CLIMATE SPECIFIC DESIGN PHIUS NA CLIMATE SPECIFIC WORK

59 WHERE ARE WE GOING FROM HERE GETTING TO ZERO

60 WHERE WE ARE HEADING Getting to Zero

61 WHERE WE ARE HEADING Low Impact Design GWP embodied energy embodied toxicity global warming potential of insulations source: building green

62 For more information: THANK YOU

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