Passive House Podcast

Cohost Zack Semke interviews Juhee Lee-Hartford and James Hartford of River Architects, the Hudson Valley-based architecture firm that has been pioneering Passive House design for over a decade. Juhee and James share how they met, how both building science and design excellence motivate their work, and the community of practice that they have been part of building in New York State.  Cohost Mathew...

Passive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Amy Tankard, the inaugural Chief Executive Officer of Te Tōpūtanga o te Whare Korou ki Aotearoa - Passive House Institute NZ. Coming from a background of management and HR, the appointment of Amy by the board of PHINZ marked a concerted effort to consolidate the growth of Passive House in Aotearoa New Zealand. Like many affiliate organiz...

Passive House Podcast guest cohosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Anne Vogt of VAND arquitectura passivhaus based in Madrid, Spain. Anne shares her introduction to Passive House in Germany, the connections she found between bioclimatic design and Passive House design, her work to help establish the Plataforma de Edificación Passivhaus (PEP), and her extensive portfolio of Passive House wor...

Passive House Podcast cohost Zack Semke interviews Kevin Brennan, co-owner at Brennan Brennan Insulation and Airtightness, firefighter with the New York City Fire Department, and cohost of Passive House Accelerator's popular Construction Tech program. Kevin shares how he got involved in both high performance construction and firefighting, insights gleaned from his years participating in the home e...

Passive House Podcast cohost Zack Semke interviews Sy Safi, founder of Louisville, Kentucky-based design/build company, Ubergreen Spaces + Homes. Sy has been a leader in green building and design for well over a decade. In 2012 he created My Green Kentucky Home, a model home that is Kentucky's first Net Zero Energy, Net Zero Water home certified LEED Platinum by the US Green Building Council. Sinc...

Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Chris Nunn, a sustainability advocate working to bring Passive House to mainstream attention. At the time of our interview, Chris was just completing a successful four-year term as Chair of the Australian Passive House Association. As well as overseeing significant growth in the uptake of Passive House in Australia during that time, Chris' experience of Passive Hous...

Guest cohosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview architect Katie Ackerly, sustainable design lead at David Baker Architects (DBA). Katie is an industry thought leader with a deep grounding in building science and energy efficiency policy. The three discuss DBA's sustainability framework and its innovative approaches to zero net energy and all-electric multifamily housing. Katie also talks about...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Pat Fitzgerald, Senior Project Manager at NYSERDA (the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority). Thank you to NYSERDA for supporting Passive House Accelerator as a Stakeholder Partner. Thank you, too, to ROCKWOOL North America for under...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews James Geppner, RetrofitNY Senior Project Manager at NYSERDA (the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority). Thank you to NYSERDA for supporting Passive House Accelerator as a Stakeholder Partner. Thank you, too, to ROCKWOOL North America...

Skylar Swinford , principal of Energy Systems Consultants and longtime member of the Phius Technical Committee, is a widely recognized North American Passive House consultant and thought leader based in Boise, Idaho. Podcast cohost Zack Semke, who worked with Skylar at Hammer & Hand when that Pacific NW builder was playing a pioneering role in Passive House, spoke with Skylar about his unique...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews John Woelfling, principal at Dattner Architects.  Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   View a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/zy6sZxTF7L4 Thank...

Bohemia Hookham is a registered architect and Certified Passive House Designer based in Melbourne, Australia and is playing a key role in the creation of one of Australia’s latest groundbreaking Passive House projects. Just North of the city of Melbourne the Glenroy Community Hub will be the first Passive House of its type in the country. Matthew Cutler-Welsh caught up with Bohemia to talk about h...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Michael Ingui, principal at Baxt Ingui Architects and founder of Passive House Accelerator, and Shannon Pendleton, principal at Sanderson Sustainable Design and cohost of the Accelerator's Construction Tech program. Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America f...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Steve Hessler, co-founder of Holzraum System.  Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   View a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/Sy-BzEzZsmQ Thank yo...

Passive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Joseph Lyth, CPHC and architect at Respond Architects in Auckland, about life in his own Passive House with his wife and three kids. This episode of the Passive House Podcast is a follow-up to Matthew's interview of Joseph about a year ago on Matthew's Homestyle Green Podcast, when construction of the house was underway. Listen to that i...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Ilka Cassidy, frequent guest host of the Passive House Podcast and co-founder of Holzraum System.  Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   View a video version of th...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Ian Findlayson of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources. Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   View a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Tom Bassett-Dilley of TBDA. Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   View a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/F5g7aU1LRQs Thank you for listening to...

Guest Passive House Podcast cohosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Angela Iraldi, Senior Project Manager at Re:Vision Architecture, about her work as a PHIUS+ Verifier, Passive House's position in the green building scene in Philadelphia, the origins and evolution of Green Building United, and more. For links to the events discussed after the interview, visit: https://passivehouseaccelerato...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Lindsey Elton of Eco Achievers. Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   View a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/ZjKNnFa_BrQ Thank you for listening...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Bomee Jung of Topsight Advisors. Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   View a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/aBaE9uOWzjQ Thank you for listenin...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Todd Kimmel of ROCKWOOL North America.  ROCKWOOL underwrote our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/     For a special video version of this episode, visit: https://youtu.be/FdqPmognuwU Thank you for listening to the Pass...

Passive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews architects John Tallis and Julia Thomas, founders of Our FabHaus, the Australia-based Passive House prefab company. https://ourfabhaus.com/  The three discuss John and Julia's design and manufacturing model, their motivations for bringing prefab to Passive House (and vice versa), their first built projects, and their plans for the future...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Karan Gupta of Newphire Building and a member of the Phnius board. Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021.  https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   View a video version of this episode at: https://youtu.be/...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Robert Blount of ROCKWOOL North America.  ROCKWOOL underwrote our interviews at PhiusCon2021.   https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/   For a special video version of this episode, visit:  https://youtu.be/HHes-vs42k0 Thank you for listening to the Pa...