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Passive house history (PHistory) Part I–North American roots
In 2002, when I set out to build my own passive house as a proof of concept, I eventually selected a site in Urbana, Ill. I had was working in Chicago at the time, but Urbana made sense for several...
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Passive house for the rest of us
Since 2008, when PHIUS launched its consultant training program, more than 500 architects, engineers, and energy consultants have taken the training, passed the computer-based and take-home exams, and...
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Looking back and ahead at passive building
Today PHIUS delivers its CPHC training virtually and and across the country, and in partnership with organizations like Yestermorrow and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It all started with the first...
View ArticlePHNW5 conference: Congratulations on a very impressive event!
The Pacific Northwest Passive House community is the oldest and largest in the country and consequently leads the nation in built, certified projects. The progress is amazing: When I keynoted the very...
View ArticlePassive house and the public domain
Because we’ve been getting questions that indicate there is a perception that PHIUS and PHI are in some sort of legal proceedings, it’s worth setting the record straight. When PHI cancelled operating...
View ArticleThe North American Passive House Conference in San Francisco – a hard act to...
Every year we say “This was the best passive house conference ever, we better stop now, we can’t possibly top this experience, the quality of the presenters, the “meat on the building science bones”...
View ArticleMany Cereals, One Cereal Aisle
The PHIUS+ standard has evolved on a very different path than the PHI standard, and they are in no way equivalent. That’s by design, based on deliberate decisions and building science, with a focus on...
View ArticleWhen Sam-I-Am Met Kat in the Hat
PHIUS co-founder and Executive Director Katrin Klingenberg reflects on the one-and-only Sam Hagerman. It was 2008 when PHIUS launched the CPHC® training in Urbana, Illinois—it was so successful that...
View ArticleEarly morning decarb musings…from the bottom up…join the conversation!
Note: After contributions from a number of fantastic guest bloggers, Katrin Klingenberg makes her return to the Klingenblog to give readers an inside look at her quest to achieve carbon neutrality both...
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