5:05 pm

Peo­ple, Po­li­cy and Pro­jects: the upt­a­ke of Pas­si­ve Hou­se in Bri­tish Co­lum­bia

This present­a­tion re­views the key drivers be­hind the up­take of the Pass­ive House stand­ard in Brit­ish Columbia over 10 years; from one pro­ject in 2010 us­ing im­por­ted ex­pert­ise and ma­ter­i­als to a pro­lif­er­a­tion of trained per­son­nel, en­abling policies and pro­jects at dif­fer­ent scales and types in 2020.

5:20 pm

The trans­for­ma­ti­on of a de­sign prac­ti­ce and a ci­ty

After the suc­cess of the 1st Pass­ive House in Van­couver, this ar­chi­tec­tur­al firm ex­per­i­en­ced an in­crease in pro­jects from code-stand­ard build­ings to only PH Cer­ti­fied with­in 3 years. This growth oc­curred due to pub­lic ex­pos­ure to PH and policy change in the Cit­ies de­vel­op­ment reg­u­la­tions. 

5:50 pm

Wa­shing­ton state en­er­gy co­de path is now equal to PHI low-en­er­gy buil­ding stan­dard

Pas­si­ve Hou­se Nor­thw­est en­er­gy co­de pro­po­sal for 2018 Wa­shing­ton state en­er­gy co­de re­du­ces air­tight­ness for all buil­ding ty­pes and re­qui­res he­at re­co­ve­ry ven­ti­la­ti­on for mul­ti­fa­mi­ly buil­dings. PHPP re­sults in­di­ca­te co­de mi­ni­mum mul­ti­fa­mi­ly buil­dings can meet PHI low-en­er­gy buil­ding stan­dard.

Figh­ting off en­er­gy po­ver­ty: can Pas­si­ve Hou­se be the ans­wer?

Deep en­ergy ret­ro­fit­ting (DER) has nu­mer­ous pos­it­ive ef­fects, one of which is en­ergy poverty mit­ig­a­tion. In the poorest EU coun­try - Bul­garia, DER has the po­ten­tial to lead the ma­jor­ity of the af­fec­ted house­holds out of poverty risk, if suit­able policy meas­ures at loc­al level are ap­plied.

6:20 pm

Pas­si­ve Hou­se and the SDGs: Con­nec­ting an in­ter­na­tio­nal buil­ding stan­dard with glo­bal aims

Ma­ny of the UN’S 17 Su­stai­na­ble De­ve­lop­ment Goals (SDGs) are re­la­ted to the en­vi­ron­ment – both na­tu­ral and built. The Pas­si­ve Hou­se Stan­dard ma­kes an es­sen­ti­al con­tri­bu­ti­on to mee­ting ma­ny of the SDGs. This ar­tic­le sum­ma­ri­ses the ways in which Pas­si­ve Hou­se con­tri­bu­tes to ma­ny of the SDGs

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