Passive House Podcast

In this special bonus episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Elizabeth Turner of Precipitate. Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021. https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/ For a special video version of this episode, visit: https://youtu.be/TBPL42B-Isk Thank you for...

Passive House Podcast guest cohosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Sayo Okada, project manager at Studio G Architects (Massachusetts), board member of PHIJP (Japanese Passive House Institute), and founder of Cube Zero (Japan). Sayo shares insights about building practice in Japan, the fascinating real estate dynamics there, and the totally unique mix of opportunities and challenges for Pass...

In this special bonus video episode recorded at the PhiusCon 2021 conference in Tarrytown, New York, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews old friends and Passive House pioneers Tessa Bradley (Artisans Group) and Graham Irwin (Essential Habitat Architecture). Thank you to ROCKWOOL North America for underwriting our interviews at PhiusCon2021. https://www.rockwool.com/north-america/ F...

Passive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Luke Kellett, Director of Kellett Design Group based in Western Australia, about his Passive House practice, and the challenges and opportunities for Passive House adoption in the WA market. For links to the events that Matthew and cohost Zack Semke discuss after the interview, visit: https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/passive-...

Passive House Podcast co-host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Dr. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Vice Chair of WGIII of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), for her return visit to the Podcast. (Listen to Ürge-Vorsatz's first interview in Episode 12 of the Passive House Podcast: https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/podcast/passive-house-podcast-ep-12-dr-diana-uerge-vorsatz.) Matthew and Ürge-...

In this special Passive House Component Episode, Passive House Podcast cohost Zack Semke interviews Hugh Whiriskey, founder and Technical Director of Partel , the Galway, Ireland-based developer and manufacturer of high-performance airtight and windtight systems with distribution throughout Ireland, the UK, North America, and mainland Europe. Hugh is an engineer, a former practitioner of high perf...

Passive House Podcast guest co-hosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Ilana Judah, founder and principal of Vancouver, BC-based ACORN Resilience & Sustainability. For links to the upcoming events that Mary and Ilka discuss with co-host Matthew Cutler-Welsh, visit: https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/passive-house-week-in-preview-october-18 Thank you for listening to the Passive H...

Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Katrin Klingenberg, co-founder and Executive Director of Phius. Katrin and Zack discuss this week's upcoming PhiusCon conference in Tarrytown, New York, the rebrand that Phius recently unveiled, the new slate of passive building certifications that Phius offers, the ways that Phius is engaging with questions of operational carbon emissions, embod...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the 25th International Passive House Conference presented online by Passive House Institute in September 2021, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Ron Beattie of Beattie Passive in the UK. Ron discusses his novel approach to delivering prefabricated Passive House retrofits and new construction, the Beattie Passive system. Looking for an ins...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the 25th International Passive House Conference presented online by Passive House Institute in September 2021, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Jessica Grove-Smith and Jan Steiger, both researchers and managing directors at Passive House Institute. Jessica and Jan share their impressions from the conference, including their sense of urge...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the 25th International Passive House Conference presented online by Passive House Institute in September 2021, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Berthold Kaufmann, Senior Scientist at Passive House Institute. Berthold shares his perspectives on next steps for scaling Passive House, his experiences with Passive House in China, and his find...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the 25th International Passive House Conference presented online by Passive House Institute in September 2021, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Giorgia Tzar, Association Management and Communications at the International Passive House Association (iPHA). Giorgia shares the latest about iPHA's Efficiency First campaign, her impressions of...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the 25th International Passive House Conference presented online by Passive House Institute in September 2021, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Passive House Institute researcher and Managing Director Benjamin Krick. Benjamin shares his impressions of the conference as well as key insights about embodied energy, embodied carbon, and Pass...

Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Shannon Pendleton, principal of Sanderson Sustainable Design and co-host of Passive House Accelerator Construction Tech. Shannon shares about her practice and how the Passive House approach has shaped it, the recent history of green building community building in Philadelphia, and the potential for an open-source approach to sharing building mode...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the 25th International Passive House Conference presented online by Passive House Institute in September 2021, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Susanne Winkel, Head of Training and Education at Passive House Institute, and Aisha Liebehenz, Associate Manager of Training and Education at Passive House Institute. They dive into the latest d...

In this special bonus episode recorded at the 25th International Passive House Conference presented online by Passive House Institute in September 2021, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Rainer Pfluger, a professor at the University of Innsbruck and a key player in the OutPHit initiative. Rainer explains this effort to deliver EnerPHit-level retrofits at scale. For a video versio...

Passive House Podcast co-host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Jason Quinn, founding director of Sustainable Engineering Ltd. Jason spent a decade as a rocket scientist at NASA before he and his family relocated to New Zealand in 2009. He soon became one of New Zealand’s first certified Passive House designers and in 2016 traveled to Germany for further training and exams to become the country’s fi...

Passive House Podcast co-host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Maria Callau, Director of SUR Architecture in Dunedin, New Zealand. The conversation delves into Callau's research into fuel poverty in New Zealand, the Passive House High Street Co-housing Development that she and her family are residents of, and her architectural practice at SUR. For links to the events that Matthew and co-host Zack S...

Passive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Mark Siddall, architect, founder, and director of low energy architecture at LEAP (http://leap4.it/). He’s passionate about enabling people to lead happier, healthier and more fulfilling lives by helping them create a comfortable lifestyle in beautiful, quality assured, ultra low energy homes, workplaces and communities. Prof. Wolfgang F...

To kick off Season 2 of the Passive House Podcast , Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Mackenzie Stickney, Project Manager at [bundle] Design Studio, a leader of sustainable design that works out of a PHIUS-certified Passive House tiny trailer in Bellingham, Washington. She's a Passive House practitioner, woodworker, and dynamic young innovator in climate-wise building design. Thank you for lis...

In this Encore Episode of the Passive House Podcast (originally aired as Episode 29 on International Women's Day, March 7, 2021), guest co-hosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview two exciting guests who are collaborating on a retrofit guide for common building typologies found in cold climates. Nina Sharifi is an assistant professor at Syracuse University’s School of Architecture and the Direc...

In this Encore Episode of the Passive House Podcast (originally aired as Episode 37 on May 3, 2021), guest co-hosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy interview Katie Faulkner, founder of WestFaulkner , an office with a mission for sustainable design. She is also a director at PT-Tech, a division of Placetailor in Boston whose initial focus is on the design and prefabrication of retrofit panels for tripl...

In this Encore Episode of the Passive House Podcast (originally aired as Episode 20 on January 4, 2021), cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Daniel Kress . Daniel is a prolific Passive House educator, having trained over half of Australia’s certified Passive House professionals. Matthew and Daniel discuss his work at Smart Plus Academy, the educational consultancy that Daniel founded and direct...

In this Encore Episode of the Passive House Podcast (originally aired as Episode 36 on April 26, 2021) . cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Robyn Wark, Manager of Advanced Demand Side Management at BC Hydro about the groundbreaking Energy Step Code in British Columbia.  Robyn is a sustainability strategist, partnership builder, and coach on low carbon communities.  Her sustainability work has...

In this 50th regular episode of the Passive House Podcast (and the last installment of Season 1), cohost Zack Semke interviews Jeremy Avellino, founder and principal of Philadelphia-based Bright Common Architecture & Design , the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Design Vanguard award from Architectural Record. Jeremy talks about his firm's practice and shares his perspectives about the work o...