Best Practices in Passive Building: Stories and Data from Projects

Registration Information:

To register for this course - please reserve your seat for the "Phius Passive Building Summit" located in the Greenbuild agenda.

Registering for the session holds your seat in the class until 5 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. At that time your seat in the session can no longer be guaranteed.

If a workshop or session is full, you will not be able to add it to your agenda; however, if you have the appropriate pass you will be able to enter the session on a first-come first-served basis 5 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the event so long as capacity has not been reached

Greenbuild staff at the entrance of the session have the ability to stop permitting entrance to the session when the room hits the set capacity.

Description:

This presentation will review various aspects of building performance and best practices in certified passive buildings across North America. Typical ranges of envelope details and performance specifications will be reviewed, with exemplary details highlighted. Best practices in mechanical system selection and sizing will also be discussed. This presentation is broken down in a climate zone specific format, so that teams working all across North America can understand what functions best in their respective climate. Buildings ranging from single family, to larger multifamily, to non-residential projects will be discussed. The presenters will detail resources available to professionals working in the passive building sphere to reference, and provide a few useful rules of thumb and checksums.