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    Passive House: Analyzing design’s fourth dimension

    May 06, 2020 4 minutes
    Words by Kate Nason
    Photograph:
    Steele Associates

    How can architects empower themselves and their cities to reduce the operational emissions of buildings? How can they create a higher level of resiliency to cope with the imminent impacts of climate change?

    These are some of the questions I have been able to ask through my research, thanks to a Byera Hadley Travelling Scholarship. I’ve collated insights from more than 30 architects, policymakers, builders, suppliers and supporting organizations across three case-study cities – Vancouver, New York and Brussels. And the conclusion I’ve drawn is stark: the Passive House (Passivhaus) standard has been the cornerstone of the emission-reduction strategy across all of these cities, not only for architects driving

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