May 14, 2025 | Noon – 1:00
Webinar
Tickets: Free
CEUs: Phius & AIA HSW
Designing a Passive House is a rewarding challenge, but achieving Passive House certification requires navigating a range of complex factors. While the design phase is an exciting opportunity to envision a high-performance building, the on-site reality presents challenges such as weather, sequencing, materials, and coordination among trades.
In this webinar, David Salamon will share valuable lessons from decades of experience working on large-scale residential and non-residential Passive House projects. Drawing from his hands-on experience, David will offer practical strategies for proactive risk management from conceptual design through construction and close-out.
Key topics will include:
- Design: PHIUS prerequisites, establishing a critical path, specifications, procurement and ensuring seamless coordination between trades to maintain thermal and airtight continuity
- Construction and Quality Assurance: Effective construction management for Passive House projects, handling substitutions, preventing unintended consequences, coordinating with CPHC-Verifiers, blower door preparation, and solving common air sealing challenges
The goal of this session is to equip you with actionable insights and proven strategies that will help you navigate the complexities of Passive House projects and ensure successful outcomes.
Your Presenter
David Salamon
RA, CPHC, LFA, BECxP, CxA+BE
Re:Vision
Associate, Senior Architect + Sustainability Consultant
David is a registered architect and an experienced builder with expertise in high performance sustainable design across multiple scales. David received his Bachelor of Art in Architecture from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Architecture with a Certificate in Ecological Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. As a Certified Passive House Consultant, David has been trained in and designed projects with both US and International passive house systems. He is a co-founder of the Greater Philadelphia Passive House Association (now a part of Green Building United) and has been a guest critic and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Temple University where he previously taught energy modeling. At Re:Vision, David provides full service residential and commercial architectural design as well as high-performance / Passive House consulting services.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
- Learn about common places failure can occur in passive house design.
- Learn about common mistakes made by builders during construction and how to anticipate and prevent them.
- Gain knowledge of best practices to use during the construction of a passive house in order to increase the chances of a successful project.
- Gain a deeper understanding of how to document details so that they are more likely to be successfully executed in the field.
Continuing Education Credits
1 Phius CEU approved
1 AIA HSW approved
You can self-report general CEUs for:
- AIA LU (HSW credits only available by attending the live event)
- USGBC/LEED
- WELL Building Standard
- LFA Living Future Accreditation
An Energize CT Passive House & All-Electric Initiative program
The Sponsors of Energize Connecticut, in partnership with BuildGreenCT and Connecticut Passive House,
are pleased to offer these webinars at no cost.
Event Logistics:
A link to the webinar will be emailed to attendees in the registration confirmation email.