Passive House Podcast
402 episodes - English - Latest episode: 16 days ago - ★★★★★ - 25 ratingsInterviews with the leaders, practitioners, and change-makers in the global Passive House movement. A production of Passive House Accelerator.
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Kylie Mills – BluKube Architecture
June 21, 2021 06:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode of the Passive House Podcast, co-host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews architect Kyle Mills, Director of BluKube Architecture in Sydney, Australia, and pioneer of both Passive House practice and education Down Under. Their conversation touches on Kylie's early builder apprenticeship with her father and the insights that has brought to her work with tradespeople onsite, her experience watching the trades in Australia ramp up on Passive House practice enough to start enabling de...
Meleny Thomas – South Baltimore Community Land Trust
June 14, 2021 06:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBMary James and Ilka Cassidy talk with Meleny Thomas, executive director of the South Baltimore Community Land Trust (SBCLT), about the organization’s mission to create community-led development and her decision to target Passive House for their initial development of 10 new homes. The choice sets a precedent for healthy homes not being restricted to affluent communities, Thomas says, in discussing how she first heard about Passive House and why she chose it as a target. SBCLT grew out of a d...
Brian Guinan — ISMART Building Group
June 07, 2021 06:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MBPassive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Brian Guinan, Certified Passive House Consultant, Certified Passive House Tradesperson, and Owner/Director of ISMART Building Group in Perth, Australia. The two discuss Brian’s apprenticeship as a builder in his native Ireland, his time in construction in New York City, and his journey to Passive House construction in Western Australia. Brian shares his insights around transforming industry practice, and the importance of focusing ...
José Sosa Rueda – Instituto Latinoamericano Passivhaus
May 31, 2021 14:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBJosé Sosa trained as a structural architect in Panama City before attending New York City College to complete a Masters in Sustainability in the Urban Environment. Professionally, he’s worked in both Panama and New York, often on high-performance projects. As well as working as an architect, José has also supported other designers with the specification and supply of high performance windows, often for Passive House projects. José became a Certified Passive House Designer in 2018 and the fol...
Jose Sosa Rueda – Instituto Latinoamericano Passivhaus
May 31, 2021 14:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBJose Sosa trained as a structural architect in Panama City before attending New York City College to complete a Masters in Sustainability in the Urban Environment. Professionally, he’s worked in both Panama and New York, often on high-performance projects. As well as working as an architect, Jose has also supported other designers with the specification and supply of high performance windows, often for Passive House projects. Jose became a Certified Passive House Designer in 2018 and the fol...
Petra Wörner – wörner traxler richter
May 24, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBGuest co-hosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy talk with architect Petra Wörner, managing partner of wörner traxler richter, about heading up the design of the world’s first hospital targeting the international Passive House standard. Klinikum Frankfurt Höchst, currently under construction in Frankfurt, Germany, will open its doors next year. The 839,585sf facility recently passed the all-important airtightness test with an impressive result of 0.13 ACH50, bringing the hospital a giant step clo...
Bomee Jung – Topsight Advisors
May 17, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast cohost Zack Semke interviews Bomee Jung, recently of NYCHA (NY City Housing Authority) and now principal of Topsight Advisors. Bomee discusses her involvement in early efforts to address climate action and buildings, the role that affordable housing providers are playing to reset our collective understanding of what “housing quality” should mean (ie. Passive House), and the ways that Passive House practitioners and organizations can help advance racial ...
John Palmer – Passivhaus Trust
May 10, 2021 04:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBSixteen years in the UK Royal Navy not only gave John Palmer a sounds background in engineering, he also gained leadership and management experience within a large and structured institution. When he made the decision to leave his Commander role, he retrained and applied his technical and management skills to building and then energy efficiency. It was only a matter of time that he came across and then fully embraced the building science of Passive House. In 2018 he left his role as Managing...
Katherine Faulkner — WestFaulkner
May 03, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.1 MBOn Episode 37 of the Passive House Podcast, 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 triple decker homes. Katie has been working as an architect for more than 20 years and was named to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows in...
Robyn Wark — BC Hydro
April 26, 2021 03:00 - 54 minutes - 37.7 MBOn Episode 36 of the Passive House Podcast. 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 won awards from Real Estate Foundation of BC, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities, the Canadian Institute of Planners, and the Planning Institute of B...
Tom Eisele — NYPH Policy Advisor
April 19, 2021 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MBIn Episode 35 of the Passive House Podcast, cohost Zack Semke interviews architect Tom Eisele, recently of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Resiliency, and current policy advisor with New York Passive House. Zack and Tom discuss the momentous New York City Local Law 97 which caps greenhouse gas emissions for all buildings in New York that are 25,000 or larger—over 50,000 buildings. The caps step down to 80% reduction in GHGs by 2050, with hefty fines to be levied on building owners for bu...
Beverly Craig – Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
April 12, 2021 03:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MBIn Episode 34 of the Passive House Podcast, cohost Zack Semke interviews Passive House policy leader and accelerator Beverly Craig, Senior Project Manager of Low and Moderate Income Programs at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (Mass CEC). Zack and Beverly discuss the pivotal role that policy progress can play in spurring widespread adoption of Passive House design and construction. Beverly shares her firsthand experience instigating rapid Passive House uptake in her state, spurred along by ...
Ya'el Santopino – ERA Architects
April 05, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBYa’el Santopinto is an architect and associate at ERA Architects, where she leads ERA’s affordable housing retrofit practice. She is also the director of research and partnerships with the Tower Renewal Partnership, a non-profit sister organization to ERA that advocates for supportive policy frameworks around the preservation of Canada’s affordable apartment housing supply. Ya’el is the project architect on the inspiring Passive House retrofit of the Ken Soble apartment tower in Hamilton, On...
Ya'el Santopinto – ERA Architects
April 05, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBYa’el Santopinto is an architect and associate at ERA Architects, where she leads ERA’s affordable housing retrofit practice. She is also the director of research and partnerships with the Tower Renewal Partnership, a non-profit sister organization to ERA that advocates for supportive policy frameworks around the preservation of Canada’s affordable apartment housing supply. Ya’el is the project architect on the inspiring Passive House retrofit of the Ken Soble apartment tower in Hamilton, On...
Kate Nason – Atelier Ten
March 29, 2021 04:00 - 46 minutes - 31.9 MBKate Nason is a certified passive house designer in Melbourne, Australia. She works for the international environmental design consultancy, Atelier Ten. She's also a director of partnerships and major events on the board of the Australian Passive House Association and a part-time tutor at the University of Melbourne. Having had various architectural roles since graduating from her master's degree, Kate has collected a range of experiences, including working on some of Australia's earliest P...
Clare Parry – HIP V. HYPE
March 22, 2021 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBMost Australians who know a bit about Passive House will know a bit about Clare Parry. If they haven’t met her personally, they will have been impacted by her leadership. In this interview, Clare shares with Passive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh how she had to travel to New Zealand to attend Passive House training because there wasn’t any available in Australia when she first became interested. And there wasn’t any Australia-based Passive House training until Clare herself set it...
Laura Nettleton – Thoughtful Balance
March 15, 2021 03:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBLaura Nettleton is the founder of Thoughtful Balance, an architectural and consulting firm based in Pittsburgh devoted to cutting-edge sustainable and high-performance design solutions. The firm has pioneered some of the most significant Passive House retrofit projects in the United States. Laura is dedicated to the idea that architecture should be simple, affordable, and available to everyone. She is actively involved in green initiatives in Pittsburgh, and in spreading the word about Passi...
Nina Sharifi & Gaby Brainard – Envelope Retrofit Guide
March 08, 2021 04:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBIn celebration of International Women’s Day 2021, we have something special in store for listeners of the Passive House Podcast. Guest cohosts Mary James and Ilka Cassidy launch their once-a-month series of interviews with women leaders and practitioners in Passive House with an interview with Nina Sharifi and Gabrielle Brainard. Mary James is Passive House Accelerator’s Director of Publications and the driving force behind Passive House Accelerator Magazine (formerly Passive House Buildin...
Talina Edwards – Talina Edwards Architecture
March 01, 2021 05:00 - 59 minutes - 41.2 MBTalina Edwards is a leader in regenerative architecture and Passive House design in Australia. She’s a leader of Australian Architects Declare as well as a board member of Australian Passive House Association. In 2013 she established her architectural studio, Talina Edwards Architecture, which has gone on to win numerous sustainable design awards, most recently for the striking Owl Woods Passive House project. In this episode of the Passive House Podcast, Talina joins cohost Matthew-Cutler...
Ben Adam-Smith – House Planning Help
February 22, 2021 05:00 - 49 minutes - 33.8 MBPassive House podcaster extraordinaire and personality Ben Adam-Smith of House Planning Help joins Passive House Podcast cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh for an entertaining conversation about how Ben came to his focus on Passive House, his burgeoning communications treasure trove at House Planning Help's "The Hub", his observations about Passive House adoption in the UK, and the secrets behind his Passive House communications superpowers. Ben started his career in radio and TV production, inc...
Prudence Ferreira – BR+A Consulting Engineers
February 15, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBYou may know Prudence Ferreira through her role as cohost of Passive House Accelerator’s Global Passive House Happy Hour. Or perhaps you’ve been her student, learning the ins and outs of Passive House design and building science in one of Prudence’s many teaching engagements. She’s one of North America’s top Passive House innovators and a global leader in high-performance building practice. Now based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she’s Senior Associate with the Carbon Neutral Group at BR+A Co...
Sian Taylor – Team Green Architects
February 08, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBSian Taylor was one of the first certified Passive House designers in New Zealand and has played a pivotal role in Passive House adoption there. She first trained as an architect in the United Kingdom, at the University of Wales in Cardiff. She currently lives in Otago, where she started her practice, Team Green Architects. Her architectural practice has helped show a pathway for fusing high-performance building with design excellence and has helped raise the profile of Passive House design ...
Anton Dobrevski – Passive House School
February 01, 2021 05:00 - 41 minutes - 28.5 MBAnton Dobrevski was born and raised in Bulgaria, where he says that houses are generally not built well or well insulated. Nevertheless, Anton was introduced to Passive House at an early age by his father, a pioneering Passive House builder in Bulgaria. Upon graduating from high school, Anton moved to the Netherlands to study architecture at Delft University of Technology. During one of his first assignments as a student, his class was advised to follow the Passive House standard. While eage...
Dennis Wedlick – BarlisWedlick Architects
January 25, 2021 06:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBThis week’s Passive House Podcast serves double-duty: first, as a fascinating conversation with the accomplished Passive House architect and deep thinker Dennis Wedlick; and second, as a preview to this Tuesday’s (January 26) webcast produced by Dennis on behalf of AIANY CRAN that will feature a “mini film festival” of residential Passive House practice from four teams, followed by a panel discussion moderated by the Accelerator’s Zack Semke. Dennis is the founder of BarlisWedlick Architect...
Brett Seriani – Seriani Designs
January 18, 2021 06:00 - 42 minutes - 29.5 MBWhile Brett Seriani began his career in Canada, he is now a Passive House pioneer in Australia. Before becoming a Certified Passive House Designer, Brett trained and qualified as both a structural engineer and an architect. With this powerhouse of experience and knowledge, he is well placed to offer a range of technical design services through his company, Seriani Designs. In this episode of the Passive House Podcast, Brett joins cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh to discuss his relatively recent ...
Lois Arena – Steven Winter Associates
January 11, 2021 07:00 - 36 minutes - 25 MBLois Arena is one of North America’s top Passive House practitioners and has worked on many of the continent’s most significant Passive House buildings. In this episode of the Passive House Podcast, Lois joins cohost Zack Semke to discuss her journey to Passive House as well as to offer a teaser for the Global Passive House Happy Hour presentation about VRF lessons learned on January 20. The conversation takes us from her days as a remodeling contractor, her work as a building engineering ...
Daniel Kress – Smart Plus Academy
January 04, 2021 06:00 - 58 minutes - 40.3 MBDaniel Kress is a prolific Passive House educator, having trained over half of Australia’s certified Passive House professionals. In this episode of the Passive House Podcast, our first of 2021, Daniel joins cohost Matthew Cutler-Welsh to discuss his work at Smart Plus Academy, the educational consultancy that Daniel founded and directs, as well as his work promulgating Passive House in Australia and beyond. The conversation takes us from his days as a carpenter in Germany, to his graduat...
Sangeetha Sambandam - WRT
December 28, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this episode of the Passive House Podcast Sangeetha Sambandam joins podcast co-host Zack Semke to talk about her journey to Passive House and the major projects she has underway. Sangeetha, a designer at WRT in Philadelphia, completed her architectural training in India with an undergraduate background in physics. After working in Sri Lanka and India she moved to Philadelphia where her interest in the sustainable side of architecture took off. Sangeetha is certified as a Passive House des...
Sangeetha Sambandam - WRT
December 28, 2020 16:00 - 44 minutes - 30.7 MBIn this episode of the Passive House Podcast Sangeetha Sambandam joins podcast co-host Zack Semke to talk about her journey to Passive House and the major projects she has underway. Sangeetha, a designer at WRT in Philadelphia, completed her architectural training in India with an undergraduate background in physics. After working in Sri Lanka and India she moved to Philadelphia where her interest in the sustainable side of architecture took off. Sangeetha is certified as a Passive House des...
Luc Plowman - Detail Green in Australia
December 21, 2020 03:00 - 44 minutes - 30.6 MBIn 2014, Luc Plowman’s consulting practice had just 2 Passive House projects on the books. Now, just over 6 years later, he has 40 underway. He’s witnessed Australia’s Passive House growth firsthand. Luc is the founder and director of Detail Green in Beechworth, Australia, and one of a small cadre of Passive House certifiers in the country. Before his work at Detail Green, Luc worked as a senior sustainability engineer and project engineer. In this episode of Passive House Podcast, co-hos...
Julie Torres Moskowitz - Fete Nature Architecture
December 14, 2020 05:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBJulie Torres Moskovitz, principal at Fete Nature Architecture, joins Passive House Podcast intern/producer Sydney Fishman and co-host Zack Semke on this week’s episod. Bringing refreshing perspectives to the table, Julie talks with the co-hosts about thermal imaging as a guide to practice, resilience and social justice, blower door testing during construction, and more. Julies portfolio is expansive, including new construction to residential retrofits, FEMA flood resiliency and non-profit...
Cillian Collins - Perkins+Will Architects in Vancouver
December 07, 2020 05:00 - 50 minutes - 34.7 MBIn the run-up to this week’s Passive House Canada Summit (Dec 8-10), Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Vancouver-based Cillian Collins about his path to Passive House, the groundbreaking Passive House projects Cillian has in the works, and the Passive House educational programming on tap at the Summit. (Registration for the Summit is open until 12pm Pacific/3pm Eastern today, Monday, December 7.) Cillian is a Senior Architect with Perkins&Will Architects and a Certified Pa...
Andy Marlow - Passivhaus Design & Construct
November 30, 2020 05:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MBIn this week's episode of the Passive House Podcast, host Matthew Cutler Welsh interviews Andy Marlow. Andy is passionate about design, sustainability and affordability. He trained as an architect at the University of New South Wales in Australia and throughout his professional career, he’s been working to incorporate ideas about sustainability into his work. As a Director at Envirotecture, Andy has been influential in providing design and consulting services for people who want buildings th...
Tessa Bradley (Smith), Artisans Group
November 23, 2020 06:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBThis week host of the Passive House Podcast Zack Semke interviews Tessa Bradley (previously Smith), a pioneer of Passive House in the Pacific Northwest. In her 20s Tessa became co-owner of the Artisans Group, at the time a design-build firm, now a design-only firm. Artisans Group quickly became a leading designer and builder of beautiful, modernist, yet financially accessible Passive House homes in the Northwest, winning many design awards in the process. Tessa has won multiple Best Project ...
Peter Bielski, Ethos Homes in Canterbury, New Zealand
November 16, 2020 04:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Peter Bielski, owner of Ethos Homes in New Zealand, about his experience building single family Passive House projects in a construction industry landscape of bare minimum building energy code requirements. Peter cut his teeth in construction in Germany, where he built homes with a major prefabricated homes operation that delivered over 900 homes per year. When he returned to New Zealand, Peter initially experimented...
Dr. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
November 09, 2020 15:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Dr. Diana Ürge-Vorsatz of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They dive into the findings of Ürge-Vorsatz's recent paper, "Advances Toward a Net-Zero Global Building Sector", including implications for both new construction and deep energy retrofits as parts of the transition to zero emissions in buildings. Visit the Accelerator's Week in Preview article for links to most of the events that Zack mentions near ...
Ken Levenson, North American Passive House Network (NAPHN)
November 02, 2020 03:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Ken Levenson, Co-Founder of 475 High Performance Building Supply and Executive Director of the North American Passive House Network (NAPHN). The conversation explores Ken’s early architecture practice in New York in the 80s and 90s, his climate awakening after watching “An Inconvenient Truth,” and his later discovery of Passive House in 2009. This discovery fueled Ken’s drive to co-found 475 with Floris Keverling Bui...
Kimberly Llewellyn, Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US
October 26, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke interviews Kimberly Llewellyn of Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US, a founding sponsor of Passive House Accelerator. An engineer by training, Kimberly spent 5 years with Positive Energy, a highly regarded engineering and consulting firm that specializes in Passive House work as part of a broad portfolio. Zack and Kimberly discuss her journey to Passive House, the "in the dirt" training she received while in the field at Positive Ener...
Harley Weston, Solaire Properties in Brisbane
October 19, 2020 04:00 - 49 minutes - 34 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Harley Weston of Solaire Properties. Harley spent twelve years drilling and exploring for minerals beneath the earth, mostly around the North Eastern part of Australia. When he wasn’t operating a drill himself, he was managing people who did. Mineral exploration is big business in Australia. It’s made a lot of people very wealthy, but doesn’t exactly conjure up images of sustainability, healthy and well being or even...
Bronwyn Barry, North American Passive House Network
October 12, 2020 05:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Bronwyn Barry, board chair of North American Passive House Network (NAPHN) and the “International Keynote” speaker for the upcoming South Pacific Passive House Conference. Bronwyn recounts how she first discovered Passive House, her stint (post-Great Recession) selling European high performance windows to architects by educating them first about Passive House design, and her leadership in the North Passive House move...
Giorgia Tzar, International Passive House Association
October 05, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Giorgia Tzar from the International Passive House Association (iPHA). Giorgia and Matthew catch up on the world-class content at the (ongoing) 24th International Passive House Conference and virtual “matchmaking” networking opportunities. Giorgia reflects on recent conferences in China and Germany, and talks about the ups and downs of going virtual. Hear about iPHA’s “global and local” approach to information and kno...
Simone Schenkel, Grün Eco in Australia
September 28, 2020 04:00 - 45 minutes - 31.6 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Simone Schenkel, director and Certified Passive House Designer at Grün Eco Design in Victoria, Australia. Schenkel is the Victorian Chapter lead of Australia Passive House Association and an advocate for moving the building industry toward energy efficient, high performance buildings. Matthew and Simone touch on the importance of production builders in this transformation and the role of regulation to help spread hig...
Andrew Peel, Peel Passive House Consulting in Toronto
September 21, 2020 04:00 - 48 minutes - 33.2 MBPassive House Podcast's Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Andrew Peel, Passive House innovator, educator, certifier, consultant, and owner of Peel Passive House Consulting in Toronto. Check out: Video of Andrew's Global Passive House Happy Hour presentation about his work on the world's first Passive House certified car dealership. Our Q&A interview with Andrew in February 2020. Matthew and co-host Zack Semke discussed a bunch of upcoming events and trainings, which can be found in the Acc...
Chris Benedict and Henry Gifford
September 14, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBPassive House Podcast's Sydney Fishman and Zack Semke interview Chris Benedict and Henry Gifford, the pioneering pair of practitioners behind some of New York City's most exciting high performance buildings, Passive House projects, and deep energy retrofits. Check out: Henry's book, Buildings Don't Lie. Chris' "Singing Into Darkness" article . Video Chris and Henry's play, "The Perfect Energy Code." Upcoming events and trainings: WED: Global Passive House Happy Hour with Marine Sanchez ...
Chris Benedict and Henry Gifford in NYC
September 14, 2020 00:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBPassive House Podcast's Sydney Fishman and Zack Semke interview Chris Benedict and Henry Gifford, the pioneering pair of practitioners behind some of New York City's most exciting high performance buildings, Passive House projects, and deep energy retrofits. Check out: Henry's book, Buildings Don't Lie. Chris' "Singing Into Darkness" article . Video Chris and Henry's play, "The Perfect Energy Code." Upcoming events and trainings: WED: Global Passive House Happy Hour with Marine Sanchez ...
Graeme Verhulst and a Passive House HQ for BC Tech Firm
September 07, 2020 17:00 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBIn this episode, Passive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews Graeme Verhulst, principal of Waymark Architecture. Graeme was one of the earliest adopters of Passive House design in Canada. In his conversation with Matthew, Graeme shares the story of striking out on his own, early in his architectural career, to build a Passive House practice when larger firms were still slow to embrace it. He also discusses the recent Passive House headquarters that Waymark designed for the tec...
John Beurle and his PHI Low Energy Building made of pre-fab straw bale panels.
August 31, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBPassive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews John Beurle, board member of Australian Passive House Association and principal of Passive House Services, about his unique PHI Low Energy Building home made of a straw panel system. Also, view John's video tour of his home at https://youtu.be/WAQ0uyakJH8. In the interview, John mentions Stuart Lee of Craftsmen Quality Builders and Andreas Luzzi of Laros Technologies as among the key players in the project. The pre-fab straw bale pa...
John Beurle and his Passive House made of pre-fab straw bale panels.
August 31, 2020 04:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBPassive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews John Beurle, board member of Australian Passive House Association and principal of Passive House Services, about his unique Passive House home made of a straw panel system. Also, view John's video tour of his home at https://youtu.be/WAQ0uyakJH8. In the interview, John mentions Stuart Lee of Craftsmen Quality Builders and Andreas Luzzi of Laros Technologies as among the key players in the project. The pre-fab straw bale panels, or S...
James Goodlet, Altereco Design in Melbourne, Australia
August 24, 2020 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBPassive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews James Goodlet of Altereco Design about his mission-driven architectural practice and the role of Passive House design in delivering on that mission. After the interview, Matthew and co-host Zack Semke reflect on the interview and share upcoming Passive House events and trainings: NAPHN Lunchtime Special: an Introduction to Passive House Ken Levenson: Every Thursday, alternating between 12:30pm EST and Noon PST https://www.naphnetw...
Ep. 1: James Goodlet, Altereco Design in Melbourne, Australia
August 24, 2020 05:00 - 44 minutes - 30.3 MBPassive House Podcast host Matthew Cutler-Welsh interviews James Goodlet of Altereco Design about his mission-driven architectural practice and the role of Passive House design in delivering on that mission. After the interview, Matthew and co-host Zack Semke reflect on the interview and share upcoming Passive House events and trainings: NAPHN Lunchtime Special: an Intruduction to Passive House Ken Levenson: Every Thursday, alternating between 12:30pm EST and Noon PST https://www.naphnetw...