Connecticut Passive House is a community of like-minded professionals offering resources, education, and outreach using the broad knowledge base and skill-sets of our peers.
As we all adjust to new modes of working remotely, dreaming about a time when we can once again socialize and learn in a communal, convivial setting, CTPH is adjusting to the way in which we can continue with our mission of educating and informing our membership, and spreading the word about Passive House. As noted in our previous newsletter, our March and April events have been postponed. Our April event, Passive House: From Theory to Reality has been rescheduled to September 24th. We are working on transforming other programs to virtual, web-based content and will inform you of these events as soon as they are confirmed.
For the time being of course, no site visits will be scheduled, but we look forward to identifying any possible projects our members are involved with that could be available for a future site walk.
We also look forward to hearing from our members any ideas, concepts, topics or brainstorms they might have so that we can continue to keep this a vibrant, active, engaged, and enjoyable community.
Please keep in touch and stay healthy,
CTPH Board of Directors
Passive House Accelerator Global Passive House Happy Hour
Features a presentation by Tim McDonald of Onion Flats in Philadelphia
Wednesdays 7:00PM EST
iPHA Community Meet Ups
April 6 3:00PM EST
Features a presentation by Passive House Institute’s Wolfgang Hasper
Getting to Zero: Bringing Residential Electrification to Scale
NESEA webinar
April 2 1:00-2:00PM EST
NAPHN 2020 Annual Conference
This year’s conference is going virtual.
Become a CT Passive House Member
- Listing with your contact info in the member directory
- Network with with our community of professionals
- Free or discounted admission to CTPH events
- Post and share your projects and resources
- Access to members only resources
CTPH and CT Green Bank
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What is Passive House?
Passive House incorporates strategies based on building science to minimize the use of energy while maximizing comfort and quality of life.
As New Englanders, we have a reputation of being Yankees. Politely described as frugal, we don’t like spending money on oil, gas, and electricity. When you come right down to it, we’re thrifty and we’re practical.
In Connecticut’s climate, comfort usually comes at a high cost. Warm in winter and cool in summer usually requires a lot of energy. That’s our problem: we can’t be both comfortable and thrifty… Or can we?
As architects, designers, builders, consultants, and tradespeople, it’s our job to tackle problems in buildings and devise sensible, practical solutions. Sensible is usually simple, and that’s exactly what the Passive House standard is: a simple, sensible, practical solution to our problems. Passive House is a clear path to low energy buildings.
Mark Twain’s Connecticut Yankee famously observed “How empty is theory in the presence of fact!” Passive House is not only practical and simple, but it’s based on scientific research. Backed by data. With its data-driven principles, science is our guide.
As individuals, we have a wide variety of priorities. One person may need lower energy bills, another person may need to control indoor air quality to manage their asthma, and yet another may want a more durable house for less maintenance and higher resale value.
Passive House is first about low energy, but there are perks: comfort, superior indoor air quality, greater durability, and resilience being a few of them. Whatever our priorities, we all desire to create better buildings—Passive House buildings.
Connecticut Passive House is a growing community of professionals providing Passive House design and construction solutions as well as education and outreach. We are just getting organized. We are incorporating and launching our website. Join us. Even better, pitch in and help. The more talent, vision and experience the better!
