week of OCTOBER 26 | 2020
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THIS THURSDAY
from our friends CT Green Building Council:
 Featuring the CTPH-sponsored
Passive House category
SEVEN Passive House projects were submitted this year!
Keynote speakers:
Dr. Joseph Allen (Associate Professor of Exposure Assessment Science at Harvard's Department of Environmental Health) and John Macomber (Senior Lecturer in the Finance unit at Harvard Business School), co-authors of Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity.
Thursday, October 29
4:00 – 5:30 PM
Register
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October 27 @ Noon - 1:00 PM
Learn about Multi-Family ventilation, understand office and retail ventilation, learn about schools applications.
FREE
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Weekly @ Noon - 1:00 PM
11-part series exploring innovative and successful
climate change solutions across CT and the nation.
FREE
October 29 ─ Mapping Vulnerable Populations
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October 29 @ 9:00 - 10:30 AM
From significant gains in indoor air quality, and lower utility bills, to greater resilience in the face of disruptive
events like brownouts and flooding–high performance
buildings will play a critical role in raising the quality of
life for communities everywhere.
FREE
CEUs: AIA 1.5 LU|HSW
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Check for green building programs - webinars, workshops, training, happy hours galore -
on the CTPH website calendar which includes these programs and more.
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Every day this week @ 5:00-7:00PM
Builders Hootenanny - Monday, 10/26
Educators Hootenanny - Tuesday, 10/27
Architects Hootenanny - Wednesday, 10/28
Developers/Policymakers Hootenanny - Thursday, 10/29
6th Annual North American Design Competition Awards Online Party! - Friday, 10/30
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Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM
October 28: Jesse Thompson: Ready-to-Build Affordable PH Lessons learned from ongoing work in affordable housing multifamily projects in the Northeast, highlighting standardized construction techniques used to try and roll out Passive House for all—quickly, economically, and beautifully.
Video from past Happy Hours
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Thursdays @ 6:00-7:30PM
October 29: Scary Failures: Why Products Fail or Succeed? Halloween Special
in conjunction with the Fine Homebuilding 2020 Summit) with Carl Seville and Michael Anschel.
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October 27-29
All the components to design, construct, operate and remediate healthy, environmentally sustainable indoor spaces; ample interactive activities and resources, education from presenters all over the globe, opportunities to explore products and services from valued vendors, network with other attendees.
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Begins November 2
Phase I: Online Sessions (self-paced, recommended 4-6 weeks)
Phase II: Online (12 days)
AIA Phase I: 40 LU/HSW units; Phase II: 40 LU/HSW units
GBCI 32 CEU / Building Performance Institute 37.13 CE credits
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Begins November 2
PHIUS+ Raters focus on single-family residential projects. The course is geared toward experienced RESNET and BPI professionals, and provides grounding in passive building principles as well as a guide to onsite quality assurance for the PHIUS+ program.
Part 1: self-paced online modules
Part 2: 9-hours of live instruction
CEUs: 14 AIA HSW / 14 CPHC / 14 RESNET
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Begins November 9
This training prepares third-party Quality Assurance and onsite verification professionals to understand the application of passive building and verification principles for multifamily and commercial projects pursuing PHIUS+ Certification.
Part 1: self-paced online modules
Part 2: 9-hours of live instruction
CEUs: 14 RESNET / 18 CPHC
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Major Review Released on the Global Building Sector and the Road to Carbon Neutrality
via Passive House Accelerator
"In a landmark review... members of the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]... examined what steps the global building sector will need to take to transform into a green, mean, carbon footprint shrinking machine, and found that we already have the tools, technologies, and knowhow to significantly reduce embodied carbon in buildings, bring down operational energy, and decarbonize the remaining operational energy demand"
"There is even evidence... that new materials and building techniques, like Passive House, can be implemented without significant increases in costs in construction... Given that high-performance buildings have yet to achieve market dominance, “their costs can still be expected to decrease.”
Read...
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Email calendar@ctpassivehouse.org to include your event on our calendar.
Email newsletter@ctpassivehouse.org if you have an item for our newsletter.
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Membership
Connect with a community of like-minded professionals. We share resources, education, and the knowledge and skill sets of our peers.
Member perks include a listing on the Member Directory, projects posted on the CTPH website, free or discounted admission to CTPH events, discounts to partner events, and access to members only resources. Join today!
Sponsorship
Interested in becoming a Sponsor? Email info@ctpassivehouse.org to learn about Event and Annual Sponsor opportunities.
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Please forward this email to whoever you think may be interested and direct them to ctpassivehouse.org to sign up for the newsletter at the bottom.
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Thanks to our annual sponsors
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