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2019 September 16 Otago Daily Times: Made of Straw

Great to see the progress Jessica and Ben are making on their Passive House. Once you have lowered the energy consumption of a home down to Passive House standard the...

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Updated: Aug 2020

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2019 September 13 Exeter City Council: “Incredibly impressed” by Exeter’s energy efficient homes

“Gareth Hughes, MP, self-funded a fact-finding trip to Exeter to find out about the city’s Passivhaus programme. He was keen to see how it could be replicated back home.” “To...

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Updated: Mar 2026

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2019 September 11 HVAC&R News: Concerns over cold-housing deaths

Cold houses kill people. “Better Renting has released a report that estimates low-quality housing causes approximately 140 cold-related deaths per year in the ACT. The report is titled Unsafe as Houses:...

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Updated: Aug 2020

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2019 August 20 – Passive House Institute: More Passive Houses in Paradise

I was looking for several examples of apartment buildings on the PHI website when I came across this colorful interview of New Zealand’s Passive House champion Thomas van Raamsdonk. When...

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Updated: Mar 2026

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AIRAH Ecolibruium August 2019 Feature

One of our newsletter articles was published in AIRAH magazine. AIRAH Ecolibruium August 2019 https://www.airah.org.au/ EcoLibrium/2019/Ecolibrium_August_2019.aspx When asked where he learned this Jason pointed out it was from Joe Lstiburek...

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Updated: Aug 2019

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08 August 2019 River City Press: The advantages of building a Passive House

River City Press ran a nice article on Passive House featuring our Director Jason Quinn. View PDF: http://www.rivercitypress.co.nz/rcp-8-8-19.pdf...

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Updated: Mar 2026

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23rd International Passive House Conference 2019

We’ve confirmed the time and date for our Director, Jason Quinn, is speaking at the 23rd International Passive House Conference 2019 in China. It will be on Wednesday, 9th of...

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Updated: Jul 2019

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11 July 2019 Stuff’s Colleen Hawkes: First Kiwi passive house: Seventh winter without heaters

View PH1NZ Case Study “Fresh air is delivered via a heat exchange system and a series of ducts in each room. Some of the ducts remove air and others deliver fresh...

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Updated: Jul 2019

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Passive House for New Zealand book featured in NZ Green Party Te Awa magazine

Living in this country has been a shocking experience for me. I’ve discovered that some Kiwis don’t think anything of wearing a winter jacket inside when it’s cold. As a...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Jun 2019

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ECCA features our book!

ECCA has decided to feature our book on their page on building...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: May 2019

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10 April 2019 Passive Houses in New Zealand: Let’s talk details

Scala Seminar Series Hosted by the disciplines of Landscape Architecture & Architecture, Unitec Institute of Technology invites you to bring your lunch and attend a free public seminar on Thurs...

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Updated: Apr 2019

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2019 Passive House Academy: PHPP Expert (PHPP) – course cancelled may be held in 2020 at SPPHC in Sydney

Course is cancelled  – we’re considering offering in in conjunction with the SPPHC in Sydney in 2020 so please contact us if that would suit you. CANCELLED What is the...

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Updated: Jun 2019

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TVNZ RENEWSNZ video on Passive House

The video can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/renewsnz/videos/252930218953512/ “These houses are heated and cooled for the same price as running your fridge. It’s called a passive house, and its secret is...

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Updated: Feb 2019

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15 February 2019 Home Style Green’s Matthew Cutler-Welsh: From Rocket Science to Building Science

“House supply is pretty complicated” “The housing market is designed to maximise profit, not to maximise the number of houses built.” This was a really fun interview and folks continue...

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Updated: Feb 2019

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07 February 2019 RNZ: Passive houses: warm, dry and sustainable, so why not more?

“If you just take Passive House technologies and just smack (them) into a building without doing modeling and knowing how it’s going to work you can actually cause some problems”...

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Updated: Mar 2019

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2019 South Pacific Passive House Conference and Trade Show

Our director, Jason Quinn, will be teaching the advanced clinic on Thermal Comfort and Overheating at the South Pacific Passive House Conference. The workshop will cover the impacts of design...

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Updated: Nov 2018

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2019 October 26 Passive House + Sustainable Building: Passive Sheltered Scheme 500 Years in the Making

Beautiful English Passive House social housing apartments for the elderly: “18 apartments split into three blocks totalling 1057 sqm treated floor area. The larger block is comprised of 14 one-bedroom...

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Updated: Aug 2020

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27 May 2018 Wanganui Chronicle – Home is where the heart(and the heat) is by Rachel Rose

I think the epic quote from this article could be paraphrased as  “Your brand new home might still be cold, damp, and bad for your health”. I think that’s a...

by Jason Quinn

Updated: Mar 2026

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