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- 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 Training Opportunities!
There are a growing number of options for Passive House consultant training and continuing education courses in the Northwest. More detailed information about them is available on the …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