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- Seattle Building Enclosure Council Symposium in Seattle: Zen and the Art of Building Enclosure Design, May 21
The Seattle Building Enclosure Council (SeaBEC), in conjunction with the Portland BEC and BC BEC, is holding an all-day symposium on May 21st at the Seattle Art Museum. Its theme "Zen and the Art of Building Enclosure Design"…more
- Upcoming PHIUS Training Sessions
Here's a quick post to inform you of the various trainings PHIUS has on the horizon: PHIUS Certified Builders Training:…more
- President's Message - April 2013
Thanks to everyone who voted in our recent election - the results are in! New Board members are Sarah Helmers from Oregon, and Joe Giampietro, our new Vice President. Joe is returning to the Board - he was…more
- Free Seminar by John Straube, Ph.D.: Mechanical Systems For Low Load Buildings, April 25th, Olympia WA
Passive House Northwest and Walsh Construction Co. are excited to partner to bring Dr. John Straube to the Pacific Northwest for a day of learning about mechanical systems for…more
- President's Message, March 2013
The Specter of Passive House Dissension has reared its ugly head again. As everyone knows by now, there was a break between PHI and PHIUS last year, and ever since then some have been choosing sides - and…more
- President's Message, February 2013
Our Spring Conference is almost upon us, and looks to be an awesome event! I want to acknowledge the outstanding job our Event Committee - Alex Boetzel, Albert Rooks, Dan Whitmore, Wayne Apostolic, and Joe Giampietro - is doing…more
- President's Message, February 2013
Our Spring Conference is almost upon us, and looks to be an awesome event! I want to acknowledge the outstanding job our Event Committee - Alex Boetzel, Albert Rooks, Dan Whitmore, Wayne Apostolic, and Joe Giampietro - is doing…more
- President's Message, February 2013
Our Spring Conference is almost upon us, and looks to be an awesome event! I want to acknowledge the outstanding job our Event Committee - Alex Boetzel, Albert Rooks, Dan Whitmore, Wayne Apostolic,…more
- PHnw 2013 Annual Conference, March 15 in Seattle, WA
Passive House Northwest 2013 Annual Conference, to be held on Friday, March 15th, at Seattle at Seattle Pacific University. The day long event will feature multiple presentations on the practice and building…more
- President's Message, December 2012
I want to congratulate our members in Oregon for their strong showing at last month's International Passive House Days. Once again, Oregon showed up us Washingtonians, with eight projects participating (there were no projects in Washington…more
- President's Message, November 2012
This month's message will be short and to the point. For our members in Washington State, I'd like to encourage you to vote for Jay Inslee to be our next Governor. Representative Inslee has been an active supporter…more
- International Passive House Days: 9-11 November 2012
The International Passive House Association is organizing the 9th annual International Passive House Days, to be held on November 9 - 11 of this year. Check the …more
- President's Message, October 2012
As mentioned in an earlier post, the Board of Directors of Passive House Northwest recently had a Strategic Planning Retreat, and have developed the ideas that were generated there into projects. Some new subcommittees, working within existing…more
- PHIUS+ Rater Training and THERM / WUFI Advanced Training in Portland, OR
PHIUS will be conducting two sets of traning courses in Portland, OR in October and November of this year: PHIUS+…more
- President's Message, September 2012
As an architect and CPHC, struggling to get Passive House work, I have a profound respect for those builders, architects and others with the tenacity and wherewithal to develop their own projects. In Seattle, people such as Dan…more
- President's Message, August 2012 - Dashboard Competition!
There’s been a lot of activity on the Passive House Northwest Google Group in the last couple of months, discussing PHPP Dashboards. A Dashboard is a customized interface to the Passive House Planning Package, which collects and displays…more
- 7th Annual North American Passive House Conference
This years North American Passive House conference will be held in the beautiful mile-high city of Denver, Colorado on Sept. 28th-29th. Be sure to check out the pre-conference…more
- President's message, July 2012
The Board of Directors of Passive House Northwest recently spent a Saturday in Olympia at a Planning Retreat. The day was split into two parts – the first was spent on general strategic planning, the second on discussing our regional…more
- President's message, June 2012
Following in the footsteps of some compatriots in Oregon, who lobbied to make Passive House part of Oregon’s REACH Code, PHnw members in Washington State have been working on making our…more
- Passive House Academy Certified Passive House Consultants Training Overview
I have recently completed the Passive House Academy Certified Passive House Consultants Training program and wanted to share my observations with you. First I must state that I am already a…more
- Passive House Institute US Seattle & Portland Training Dates Announced
Passive House Institute US has partnered with Earth Advantage Institute to offer their Certified Passive House Consultant Training. This 9 day course prepares qualified candidates to become Certified Passive…more
- President's message, May 2012
One thing I’d like to do periodically in these monthly messages is describe to our members what the Passive House Northwest Board of Directors is up to. The Board (comprised of myself, Alex Boetzel, Albert…more
- WUFI Training coming to Seattle
The folks who teach WUFI, the moisture migration software, will be in Seattle on June 7-8th. This will be the last WUFI class in the US for this year. For more information and registration info go to: …more
- President's Message, March 2012
It always feels great to get another successful Regional Conference behind us. The PHnw Event Committee, led by Alex Boetzel, did an outstanding job in bringing it together and making it happen. The March event was…more
- Presentations from the PHnw 2012 Spring Conference Available!
We have uploaded PDFs of the presentations from the PHnw 2012 Spring Conference, held in Portland, OR, on March 2nd; you can access them under Resources, Conference Presentations on the PHnw website. …more
- Passive House Academy Official Training Dates for Seattle announced
"The course is taught in imperial. All the trainers at PHA are bi-lingual ;-) .…more
- President's Message, February 2012
Welcome to the first installment of what will become a monthly feature of the PHnw website. The “President’s Message” will be something of a “State of the Union” about our…more
- PHNW Spring 2012 Conference
Jerry Yudelson—“Godfather of Green”—to Headline March 2, 2012 Passive House Northwest Conference in Portland,…more
- PHNW Fall Conference Presentations!
Here are the PDF's of the presentations from our PHNW Fall 2011 Conference! Gunter Lang - Austria's Multi Family…more
- Passive House Beyond Single Family Residential was a HUGE success!
Yesterday wrapped up a 2 day event where we began delving into the world of larger Passive House construction. We had a wonderful lineup of speakers, headed by Gunter Lang, our keynote speaker who came from Austria to share his knowledge…more
- PHNW Fall Conference Classes open to all!
We now have opened the registration for the day before the conference classes to non-members and members who did not take advantage of the early bird discount! We had a great response already but still have some spots left. If you…more
- PHNW Fall Conference Sept 16th in Seattle
It's official - the next PHnw conference is in Seattle on Sept 16th at Seattle Pacific University. Our focus will be larger scale construction projects such as Multi-Family,…more
- Response to Martin Holladay's critique of the Passive House movement at the PHnw 2011 Spring Meeting
This is a response to Martin Holladay’s critique of the Passive House movement, at the PHnw 2011 Spring Meeting in Olympia, WA.Here were Mr. Holladay’s main bullet points.What I like about the…more
- PHIUS announces 2011 Consultants Training Series
The Passive House Institute US has released its 2011 Certified Passive House Consultants …more
- 2011 North American Passive House Conference Oct 28th-29th
This year's Continental Conference will take place in the Metro Washington DC area, Silver Spring MD to be exact. The main event will be on Friday Oct 28th and Saturday Oct 29th and will include presentations on case studies; building…more