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Education
Green Building United offers educational opportunities throughout the year, including the Sustainability Symposium and New Gravity Housing Conference. These conferences include Passive House-focused sessions that apply classroom theory to built projects from around the country and address the challenges faced by designers and contractors in the field.
If interested in watching past content, please see our Webinars On-Demand library.
Education is not limited to the classroom! The Passive House Community sponsors on-site tours of Passive House projects – some completed and certified, some under construction, providing participants with in-the-field training in techniques and technologies being implemented to meet the challenge of getting to the Passive House. These tours included single and multi-family and commercial construction.
The Passive House movement is growing and with that, the demand for trained and certified designers, verifiers, and builders is growing. Green Building United works with partners to coordinate trainings throughout the year. These courses are intensive, grounded, and collaborative. See our events calendar for details.
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Building healthy, safe, and accessible places to live that will both limit and adapt to climate impacts is a key challenge for the 21st century. This annual event explores the tools, techniques, and practices that the building community is using to address the need for quality affordable housing that can withstand increasingly extreme and volatile weather. Stay tuned for more info!
Resources
Passive Rowhouse Manual Project
This ongoing project focuses on how to make any existing rowhouse a Passive House. Detailing window selection and installation, air sealing and insulation, plumbing, HVAC systems and renewal energy options, the Manual takes you step-by-step with your designers and consultants to reach peak performance and reduce your energy loads to near zero. Check out the Manual here and watch the first and second films in our series meant to show real life examples of Passive House in action.
2020-2021 Habitat for Humanity Demonstration Project
We collaborated with Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia (Habitat) to further their goal of offering an
increased volume of affordable, high-performance housing. The Demonstration Project involved our joint communities to dream about, design, and generate an affordable passive house alternative for Habitat to use the existing Oxford
Green Community Model. Check out the final report here.
Passive House and the Sustainable Development Guide
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are important drivers for improving the lives of all creatures, preserving the environment, and setting a course of action for all of us to participate in that preservation and improvement. Passive House supports the goals of the SDGs by being an amazing tool to in the effort to lower energy consumption, improve indoor air quality and occupant health, and reduce carbon emissions and other green house gases. Check out how Passive House and the UN SDGs align! For more information visit Passipedia.
