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    Multifamily Passive House – Live Online, January 21, 12 - 3 pm ET

  • 21 January 2026
  • Start time : 12:00 PM
  • End time : 03:00 PM
  • Event Host : The Passive House Network
Multifamily Passive House – Live Online, January 21, 12 - 3 pm ET
Event Description

This course is an in-depth look at basic strategies for delivering successful all-electric decarbonized Passive House apartment buildings teams want to build, and families want to live in.

As we push to all-electric decarbonized multifamily buildings, designing to the Passive House Standard offers many benefits to building owners and occupants alike, from lower operating costs to greater durability, occupant comfort, indoor air quality, and storm resilience. This course is a comprehensive look at making Passive House multifamily buildings a reality, from theory to practice and completed examples.

The course will dive into all-electric multifamily design and construction as a Passive House process, producing affordable, high-quality results. Areas covered will include:

  • Planning Milestones
  • Efficient Multifamily Design
  • Ventilation
  • Glazing and Shading
  • Wall Assemblies
  • Thermal Bridges
  • Cooling, heating & hot water.
  • Electrification
  • Building Certification

Learning Objectives:

  1. Describe the five principles of Passive House. 
  2. Outline design and construction milestones for Passive House multifamily building. 
  3. Describe approaches to efficient multifamily design. 
  4. Outline key Passive House components in multifamily buildings and design integration and optimization examples. 
  5. Describe mechanical ventilation, heating/cooling, and hot water systems approaches used in Passive House multifamily. 
  6. Outline strategies for building electrification. 
  7. Describe critical aspects of successful Passive House multifamily building certification. 

  • Host Company/Organization Name
    • The Passive House Network
  • Speakers / Presenters
    • Ken Levenson, Executive Director, The Passive House Network.

      Ken was a practicing architect for over three decades, completing early Passive House projects in New York City. Committed to accelerating Passive House growth and knowledge sharing, he co-founded 475 High Performance Building Supply, was a founding member of the Passive House Alliance, a co-founder of New York Passive House and of NAPHN, which would become The Passive House Network (PHN). Today, as Executive Director of PHN, Ken continues to focus on driving building industry culture change with Passive House education.
  • Cost
    • $145
  • Event type
    • Online/Webinar

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