8.30 am

Open­ing of the key­note speak­er plen­ary

The Jour­ney of Pas­si­ve Hou­se in To­ron­to: Dri­ving Sys­tem Change and Buil­ding Ca­pa­ci­ty

_{The exe­cu­ti­on of a new Uni­ver­si­ty of To­ron­to Scar­bo­rough Pas­si­ve Hou­se re­si­dence was in­ten­tio­nal­ly de­si­gned to broad­ly en­ga­ge with in­ves­tors, con­sul­tants, lo­cal au­t­ho­ri­ties and buil­ders to build lo­cal know­led­ge, ex­per­ti­se and pas­si­on for Pas­si­ve Hou­se and de-risk fu­ture pro­jects wi­thin the re­gi­on.}

8.55 am

Is Pas­si­ve Hou­se key to un­lock­ing a de­car­bo­ni­sed grid?

The Po­ten­ti­al of Pas­siv­haus to Pro­tect Peo­ple in Ex­tre­me Fi­nan­ci­al Dis­tress

_{In the UK high en­er­gy pri­ces and poor hou­sing lea­ve ma­ny peo­ple un­a­ble to he­at their ho­mes. Mo­del­ling and an­ec­do­te sug­gest un­hea­ted Pas­siv­haus main­tain sa­fe tem­pe­ra­tu­res in cool wea­ther for 5 days or mo­re. In win­ter tem­pe­ra­tu­res al­so re­main si­gni­fi­cant­ly hig­her than in non-Pas­siv­haus}

The PH-Cer­ti­fi­ca­ti­on can eit­her be a bur­den or a migh­ty qua­li­ty ca­ta­ly­ser!

_{This present­a­tion arose from our 15 years of in­ter­na­tion­al ex­per­i­en­ce as cer­ti­fi­ers and from the suc­cess­ful En­erPHit Ret­ro­fit of the Ken Soble Tower in Hamilton (2021). It aims at giv­ing a gen­er­al guid­ance on the Pass­ive House Cer­ti­fic­a­tion Pro­cess to help design teams to choose the right path­way for their own pro­jects.}

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