Building Beyond ZeroA Ten Year CelebrationSENTINEL HOTEL | PORTLAND, OR

Thursday ScheduleD: MECHANICAL / CASE STUDIESC: POLICYB: BUILDER TRAININGA: ENERGY MODELING

Grand Ballroom Billiard Room Card RoomLibrary

LUNCH & KEYNOTE: KATHIE DELLO

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SPECIAL DINNER & KEYNOTE: ASTRONAUT MICHAEL LOPEZ-ALEGRIA

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Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Every Project

Stacy H. Smedley

Refreshing RefrigerantsAllan Montpellier, David Mead, &

Thomas Schaer

Envelope WorkshopScott Kosmecki & Josh Salinger

What to Do with All Those Crappy Old Buildings?

Christy Love

Building as a Conscious Act: Finding Opportunity in Health, Resiliency and

CommunityEric Corey Freed

Passive House in a Changing Climate

Eric Catania

Avoid the Carbon Rebound: How Passive House Can Create Higher-Carbon Buildings

Than Conventional MethodsLucas Johnson

Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Oregon’s Built Environment

The Oregon Department of Energy

Collective Impact: Pushing Policy to Reach Zero Energy & Zero Carbon

Goals in the Northwest, Hosted by Earth Advantage

Anthony Roy, ModeratorAmy Cortese, Vinh Mason, Amy Wheeless,

& Zach Semke

Charter Telecom Headquarters Building Graeme Verhulst

Exploring A Path To More Cost-Efficient, Energy-Efficient Affordable Housing

Mike Steffen, Walsh Construction

Passive House 101PHnw

Passive House in Very Cold Climates Andrea Frisque, Jeanie Chan & Sergio

Sadaba of Stantec

Solis: A Case Study for Multifamily Passive House Condominiums

Emily Doe & Brian Heather

HVAC Case Study: The Pax Futura Project

Aaron Barnett

Kathie Dello is the Associate Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and the Deputy Director of the Oregon Climate Service. She will speak to how Climate Change is already affecting our region and how the Pacific Northwest can prepare for impacts on our natural resources, infrastructure systems, health and quality of life.

Astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria held the record for the longest spaceflight at 215 days and he has spent more time spacewalking than any American. Hear about what parts of being in the space program are transferable to our daily lives and get a personal perspective of our planet that very few people have ever seen.

15 MIN. BREAK SNACKS SERVED IN TRADESHOW ROOM

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Friday ScheduleD: MECHANICAL / CASE STUDIESC: POLICYB: BUILDER TRAININGA: ENERGY MODELING

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BREAKFAST & KEYNOTE: 10 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE

LUNCH & KEYNOTE: CARLY COULSON

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4:00 Building Practices in the Northwest:

What Does the Data Say?Mehka Abraham & Dan Wildenhaus

Passive House Inspired Code and Policies: How Leading Jurisdictions are Shifting Their Approach in Order

to Meet Ambitious Energy and Carbon Reduction Goals

Mark Lyles & Lisa Westerhoff

Oregon Global Warming Commission Report & Clean Energy Jobs BillSam Pardue, Lesley Jantarasami

Passive House - Great Idea! How Do I Sell It?

Tessa Smith, Zachary Semke & Jonathan Bean

Solving the Conflicts in ASHRAE + PHIUS Energy Modeling in Large/

Commercial Passive HousesColin Schless

The Language of Mechanical Systems: An Architect’s Guide to

the Dialects of HVAC DesignMaren Longhurst

The Architect’s PHPP DashboardDylan Lamar & Skylar Swinford

Introducing the new PHPP Expert Seal Andrew Peel

Passive House Architecture – Designing Toward the Future

Graham Irwin

Passive vs. PrefabricationBrett Holverstott

Verified Successful Airtightness Approaches in the US and PNW

Dan Whitmore

Comfort and Wellness in High Performance Buildings

Dan Luddy

Madison House - A Case Study Tessa Smith

Pax Futura - Washington’s First Passive House Apartment Building

James Ortega & Sloan Ritchie

Exploring a Path to More Cost-Efficient, Energy-Efficient (Passive

House) Affordable HousingMike Steffen

Passivhaus for Existing Multi-Use Buildings

Peter Vierthaler

Rowing Together: Creating Highly Effective Teams to Achieve a

Regenerative FutureAlex Boetzel & Erica Dunn

Purifying the Murky Waters of Modeling Household Appliances

in PHPPAndrew Peel

Weaving Large-Scale PH Envelope Design, Detailing and BECx into a Cohesive ApproachJohn Duncan, Jamie McKay & Prudence Ferreira

Wood Innovation Research LabDr. Guido Wimmers Decarbonization: A Way Forward,

Hosted by New Buildings InstituteRalph DiNola, Moderator

Lisa Westerhoff, Bronwyn Barry, & Jeff Frost

Educating the Next GenerationAlison G. Kwok

Indoor Air Quality and HVAC Strategies for High Performance

Healthy Homes Greg Davenport & Luke Howard

Central Heat Pump Water Heating for Passive Houses

Shawn Oram & Colin Grist

Development and implementation of the Sanden Co2 Heat Pump Water Heater as a Combi for

Passive House Buildings Albert Rooks

A look back at the past 10 Year of Passive House Northwest and a glimpse into where we’re headed next.

Architect Carly Coulson integrates diverse disciplines that combine to make contemporary building into beautiful, humane, and sustainable environments. Invisible Architecture is a design approach that far exceeds the 2030 Challenge by using integrated passive design and advanced energy modeling to create amazingly rich aesthetic spaces that are seamlessly high-performing.

University of Washington graduate studio team will share their exciting vision for how a single family neighborhood designed in the 1950’s can be transformed into a more sustainable and equitable neighborhood by 2050, creating an Eco District community that integrates historic preservation, urban planning, social capital, embodied carbon, energy benchmarking, and Passive House performance.

Thursday ProgramD: MECHANICAL / CASE STUDIESC: POLICYB: BUILDER TRAININGA: ENERGY MODELING

Grand Ballroom Billiard Room Card RoomLibraryQuantifying the Carbon Footprint of Every ProjectStacy H. Smedley, Director of Sustainability Skanska USA Building – New developments in tools and best practices for Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment, Embodied Carbon, and attaining Net Zero Carbon certification.

Refreshing RefrigerantsAllan Montpellier, PAE, David Mead, PAE & Thomas Schaer, SHED - What are refrigerants’ true carbon impact on the natural environment? A central component in current HVAC system design, refrigerants can be used as energy-saving tools. However, if released into the environment, many refrigerants have thousands of times the impact as CO2 and contribute directly to global warming. The presentation will draw from research done with Paul Hawkins’ Project Drawdown on the top solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions where refrigerant management came in as the number one solution.

Passive House in a Changing ClimateEric Catania, RDH Building Science - Passive House buildings are finely tuned for the climate zone in which they are constructed. But how will these buildings perform when the climate changes? This presentation will introduce the study of future climate scenarios, will introduce sources of data for predictive future climate files, will review a procedure for creating predictive PHPP climate files, and will present an example of how the performance of a specific Passive House project may vary according to future climate scenarios.

Avoid The Carbon Rebound: How Passive House Can Create Higher-Carbon Buildings Than Conventional MethodsLucas Johnson, 475 High Performance Building Supply - With Passive House we have a proven approach to minimize operational carbon; however, embodied carbon is not a required consideration. Learn why this should not be overlooked to mitigate the climate crisis.

Envelope WorkshopScott Kosmecki of Hinge Build Group & Josh Salinger of Birdsmouth will moderate this workshop style discussion of Passive House experts in our region to qualify the best assemblies in use for our climate zone that reach Passive House standards. The criteria will be based on Price, Trade Buildability and Risk Reduction. At the end of this workshop we should have a set of example assemblies to share with the Passive House community.

What to do with All Those Crappy Old Buildings? Learnings from a NEEA Pilot on Small Commercial Buildings in the Pacific Northwest - Christy Love, RDH Building Science - Investigating a multi-year pilot study sponsored by the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (NEEA) that was undertaken to predict and measure the energy savings and air quality impacts from this conversion method in (8) small commercial buildings throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Building as a Conscious Act: Finding Opportunity in Health, Resiliency and CommunityEric Corey Freed, Morrison Hershfield - Journey through an inspirational look at the global crises facing the world and a variety of ways to transform your business to adapt to a warmer, wetter world. Learn from our work with hundreds of municipalities, agencies, and companies to reduce their carbon, boost their performance, slash their operational expenses, and provide healthy spaces for everyone. Learn how to link design to outcome and uncover new ways to expand your business.

Accelerating Energy Efficiency in Oregon’s Built Environment The Oregon Department of Energy (ODOE) will provide an overview and update on the implementation of Governor Kate Brown’s Executive Order (EO) 17-20, “Accelerate Efficiency in Oregon’s Built Environment”. The presentation will share progress to date on implementing the EO as well as how interested stakeholders can get involved.

Collective Impact: Pushing Policy to Reach Zero Energy & Zero Carbon Goals in the NorthwestHosted by Earth Advantage. Panel: Amy Cortese, New Buildings Institute | Vihn Mason, City of Portland | Amy Wheeless, NW Energy Coalition | Anthony Roy, Earth Advantage (moderator). - In both Oregon and Washington, change makers have formed coalitions to accelerate meeting ambitious carbon goals. What are the policies needed in the next five-to-ten years to ensure that all new buildings will be zero energy or zero energy ready and how are we going to get there? Washington’s Shift Zero and Zero Energy Ready Oregon (ZERO) will share their work and the developing tools to make getting to zero energy easier to understand and implement.

Charter Telecom Headquarters Building Graeme Verhulst, Waymark Architecture - Western Canada’s first Certified Passive House office building, and the region’s first engineered mass timber building in Victoria, British Columbia.

Passive House in Very Cold Climates Andrea Frisque, Jeanie Chan & Sergio Sadaba of Stantec - In this presentation we will present a completed, certified non-residential Passive House, demonstrating it is possible to achieve certification in very cold climate Northern British Columbia.

Solis: A Case Study for Multifamily Passive House CondominiumsEmily Doe, Webber Thompson and Brian Heather, CEO of Solterra - The architect will provide a project overview; Passive House design strategies, energy modeling approach, constructibility considerations, and review key differences between single family and multifamily passive construction. An owner Q&A will discuss financing, market strategy, condo-ization, construction costs and public art.

HVAC Case Study: The Pax Futura ProjectA 35 unit Passive House - Aaron Barnett, Cascade Built - Offering insights on permitting such an advanced design with the City of Seattle, making adequate provision for the space requirements of such systems, and approaches to managing the variety of usage patterns inherent to a multi-family project.

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Introducing the new PHPP Expert SealAndrew Peel, Peel Passive House Consulting - Exploring the new PHPP Expert seal, the first of several new seals being introduced by the International Passive House Institute. Get a detailed overview of the process, learning objectives, and requirements.

The Architect’s PHPP DashboardDylan Lamar of Cultivate and Skylar Swinford of ESCO - The Architect’s PHPP Dashboard enables architects and designers to run schematic-level energy analyses with the PHPP in a matter of 15 minutes in order to assess Passive House compliance. The Dashboard will be freely distributed to attendees with a licensed PHPP.

The Language of Mechanical Systems: An Architect’s Guide to the Dialects of HVAC DesignMaren Longhurst, Sam Rodell | Architects - Learn why Manual J,S,T,D (and N) calculations are so important, where to find critical information in reports and spec sheets, and how to speak the dialects of HVAC consultants and manufacturers.

Solving the Conflicts in ASHRAE + PHIUS Energy Modeling in Large/Commercial Passive HousesColin Schless, Thornton Tomasetti - Investigate the differences and obstacles of each standard along with solutions for both in commercial building energy modeling applications.

Wood Innovation Research LabDr. Guido Wimmers, University of Northern British Columbia - The WIRL is a small university certified (Spring 2018) Passive House laboratory with a large equipment industrial workshop for developing innovative structures using engineered wood products. Learn about the challenges industrial equipment posed for meeting primary energy and for the dust extraction on ventilation and wall perforations.

Weaving Large-Scale PH Envelope Design, Detailing and BECx into a Cohesive ApproachJohn Duncan, Jamie McKay, and Prudence Ferreira from Morrison Hershfield - The panel will review intersection details for multifamily and commercial projects that cause thermal bridging, air sealing and waterproofing issues. Dive into workflow and plan review for high performance detailing and how to use the BECx approach to avoid getting into trouble. Wrap up with recommendations for streamlined design and commissioning.

Purifying the murky waters of modeling household appliances in PHPPAndrew Peel, Peel Passive House Consulting - Explore research comparing North American and European standards for assessing household appliances energy use.

Verified successful Airtightness Approaches in the US and the PNWDan Whitmore of RDH Building Science and Alex Boetzel of Green Hammer - Review the successful means and methods of regional design and construction teams in integrating Passive House level airtightness.

Passive vs. PrefabricationBrett Holverstott - Two case studies on the cutting edge of prefabrication: a custom contemporary home designed utilizing the BuildSmart (panelized) system and a custom contemporary home designed to be factory-built in five modules. We explore the natural tension between passive design and the dimensional constraints of modular building, as well as the connection details.

Passive House Architecture - Designing Toward the Future Graham Irwin, Essential Habitat Architecture - Explore the dynamics of a successful project team, the increased responsibilities on the architecture side, details and techniques that leverage existing technology to increase quality and decrease costs for both new construction and retrofits, and a quest for expression of this new architecture.

Passive House - Great Idea! How Do I Sell It?Tessa Smith, of Artisans Group, Zachary Semke of Zola Windows, and Jonathan Bean of University of Arizona - Review meaningful modern marketing techniques for small and large businesses such as white papers, social media, website visibility, positive messaging and how being a Passive House designer, consultant or builder means you can provide valuable services for a range of potential clients.

Rowing Together: Creating Highly Effective Teams to Achieve a Regenerative FutureAlex Boetzel, Director of Operations and Sustainability & Erica Dunn, Director of Design at Green Hammer - This session will explore the why and how of creating integrated teams with strong, healthy communication and the ability to overcome commonly seen difficulties and roadblocks.

Passivhaus for Existing Multi-Use BuildingsPeter Vierthaler, Northwest Partners LLC - This presentation will address retrofit strategies and how Passivhaus can reduce energy use, increase car charging capacity, and the importance of reduced VOCs and good ventilation in living units.

Exploring a Path to More Cost-Efficient, Energy-Efficient (Passive House) Affordable HousingMike Steffen, Walsh Construction - A brief synopsis of detailed case study presented Thursday morning as an illustrated application of the Cost-Efficient Design and Construction (CEDC) Method and how it has been applied to several affordable housing projects in the Pacific Northwest.

Oregon Global Warming Commission Report & Clean Energy Jobs BillLesley Jantarasami, Senior Climate Analyst at the Oregon Department of Energy to the Oregon and Sam Pardue, commission member Oregon Global Warming Commission and CEO of Indow Windows, will present key conclusions from their latest report to the Oregon Legislature, discuss Oregon climate policies, and identify key roles for residential and commercial buildings. Joining Sam will be Renew Oregon to talk about the Clean Energy Jobs Bill working its way through the Oregon legislature.

Passive House Inspired Codes and Policies: How Leading Jurisdictions are Shifting Their Approach in order to Meet Ambitious Energy and Carbon Reduction GoalsMark Lyles - New Buildings Institute, Lisa Westerhoff - Integral Group (Vancouver) - Advanced energy codes and policies are one of the biggest opportunities for cities and states to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. Jurisdictions including Massachusetts, New York and British Columbia have incorporated passive house principles into their Stretch or Step codes as an alternative code pathway to dramatically improve building performance and meet energy and carbon reduction goals.

Decarbonization: A Way Forward, Hosted by New Buildings InstituteRalph DiNola, New Buildings Institute (moderator) | Lisa Westerhoff, Integral Group (Vancouver) | Bronwyn Barry, North American Passive House Network | Jeff Frost, Brightworks Sustainability - Slowing climate change depends on rapid decarbonization through a wide range of strategies that include policy development, implementation, market transformation, and user engagement. Panelists will highlight their current work and focus on key takeaways and actions applicable in the Northwest.

Building Practices in the Northwest - What Does the Data Say?Mehka Abraham & Dan Wildenhaus, BetterBuilt NW, NEEA - The IPCC has determined that to limit global temperature increase to 1.5°C, we must reduce our carbon emissions by 40% by the year 2030. This data driven session will dive into how far along our building stock is coming and how much harder we need to push to get our Residential New Construction efforts to meet this target.

Educating the Next GenerationAlison G. Kwok, PhD, University of Oregon - This session will garner lessons learned from integrating the CPHC/passive house principles into the curriculum at three US universities (University of Oregon, Miami University [Ohio], and Prairie View [Texas]) and will describe exercises, activities, successes and challenges/hurdles.

Indoor Air Quality and HVAC Strategies for High Performance Healthy HomesGreg Davenport and Luke Howard, Mitsubishi Cooling and Heating - Homeowners, home builders, and HVAC contractors rarely put healthy indoor air quality and energy efficiency before the tangible elements of a home. If homeowners properly understood the risks and rewards of living in a healthy energy efficient home, they would probably choose differently. We will look at case studies that illustrate best practices for ducted mini splits, transfer fans, and HRVs in high performance homes.

Central Heat Pump Water Heating for Passive HousesShawn Oram and Colin Grist, Ecotope - Overview of heat pump technology and 3 case studies delivering COP 2.6 - 3.8. This presentation will cover strategies for design, implementation, and optimization of these systems.Development and implementation of the Sanden Co2 Heat Pump Water Heater as a Combi [Space + DHW} for Passive House Buildings - Albert Rooks, Small Planet Supply - This presentation covers the development and implementation steps of the Sanco2: Concept, partnership buy-in, trial projects, installation and commissioning miss-steps, and current performance.

Comfort and Wellness in High Performance Buildings Dan Luddy, PAE Engineers - How do we optimize passive house design to best serve the occupants? Examine the elements of building design that impact thermal comfort, indoor air quality and access to daylight along with an overview of analysis tools and resources available to assist designers to more carefully consider these parameters. Madison House - A Case StudyTessa Smith, Artisans Group - A 1,200 sf PHIUS Certified home recently completed on an inner city urban lot in Olympia, Washington. The case study will cover design approach and solutions, assemblies and construction lessons learned. Pax Futura - Washington’s First Passive House Apartment BuildingJames Ortega, PHIUS & Sloan Ritchie, Cascade Built - A 4-story, 35-unit apartment building located in Seattle with design features that set it apart from typical single-family projects. Get the design process from the point of view of the developer/builder (Cascade Built) and the passive building certification body (PHIUS).

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