How Affordable Multi Family Housing Passivhaus Works

BCRES - How Affordable Multi-Family Housing Passivhaus Works

In a building market with an ever-growing demand for housing, the pressure is higher than ever to build code minimum building stock as quickly as possible. While these buildings last for decades and have an environmental impact lasting much longer, is there perhaps a better approach to the issue?

Passivhaus is well known to be a rigorous building energy standard, but it is also proving to be an effective multi-family low-income housing building standard as well. The value of high energy performance is being adopted as a viable low-cost approach to projects all around the world as it also ensures long-term cost savings, residential well-being, quality assurance, and predictable results. But how does Passivhaus work in larger-scale building projects, and what are the benefits and obstacles to building large-scale residential in terms of technical issues and costs?

Watch Andrew Michler cover the basics of how larger-scale buildings are inherently more energy efficient if well designed; how data-driven design and the energy modeling process optimizes better outcomes and eliminates fuel poverty and improves survivability during extreme weather events; how health is as important as energy when designing a multifamily residence; and how a quality assurance process is critical to reduce mistakes and eliminate cut corners. Additionally, the presentation covered interference to the adoption of performance-based building design and multiple examples of projects that overcame these hurdles.

The program was hosted by Chris Nichols, BCRES Co-chair.

A question and answer session followed the presentation.

This webinar was recorded at the April 14, 2021 meeting of the Boulder County Chapter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society.

Timeline:
00:00 Welcome and Announcements
07:16 Presentation - Andrew Michler
08:46 Program
46:32 Q&A

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Andrew Michler is a Certified Passive House Designer and is a partner in Hyperlocal Workshop, a passive house design firm based in Masonville, CO, and San Francisco, CA. He designed and built the first certified international passive house in Colorado and is co-originator of the Passive House Rocky Mountain group as well as serving on the board of the North American Passive House Network and NCRES. He is currently working on Temporal.haus, a multifamily midrise timber and straw Passivhaus located in Los Angeles for the 2021 ECC Venice Biennale.

ABOUT CRES:

The Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) is dedicated to the advancement of all forms of renewable energy (RE), energy efficiency (EE), and their synergy with sustainability and economic development. Learn more at https://www.cres-energy.org/

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This presentation was organized by the Boulder County Chapter of the Colorado Renewable Energy Society. Contact us at bcres@cres-energy.org or visit us online at https://www.cres-energy.org/. Video production provided by Brian Beinlich, https://brianbeinlich.com.

CRES features several local monthly speaker series throughout the state, provides speakers, experts, and workshops, and weighs in on state energy policy.

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