Passive House Podcast co-hosts speak with Katelyn Meehan, Relationships Manager at Wells Fargo within the Community Lending platform. Katelyn describes the complexities of construction financing, highlighting the growing awareness among lenders in the Passive House sector. In her role she sees Passive House standards taking the lead as the preferred choice for green building certification, offering a sustainable and forward-thinking approach to construction and design.Join us at Reimagine Bui...

167: Financing 101 for Affordable Housing

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In this bonus episode of the Passive House Podcast, co-host Ilka Cassidy is at the Sustainability Symposium hosted by Green Building United. In the first interview Ilka talks with Robert Fleming, Brian Fullen, Carolina Downey and Sarah Harvey of FCA  along with Kayla Reddington and Sarah Murphy of Turner Construction about their sustainability framwork. In the second interview Ilka speaks with Scott Kelly and Drew Lavine of Re:vision Architecture about  their project, the first Livi...

Bonus Episode: Certifications - All or None?

In this bonus episode of the Passive House Podcast, co-host Ilka Cassidy is at the Sustainability Symposium hosted by Green Building United. Ilka talks with Paul Thompson of BluPath, Lauren Thomsen & Matt Gindlesparger of Lauren Thomsen Design, Justin Lovenitti & Norm Horn of New Ecology and David Gavin of Quinn Evans. Ilka talked to the presenters of a row house renovation in Baltimore and a new construction row house in Philadelphia.https://blupath.us/https://www.newecology.org/http...

Bonus Episode: Adapting Row House Neighborhoods for the Future

In this special bonus episode of the Passive House Podcast, co-host Ilka Cassidy is at the Sustainability Symposium hosted by Green Building United. Ilka talks with Rich Freeh the Executive Director of GBU and Sangeetha Sambandam of WRT. They give insight into Green Building United and the Symposium, its history, goals, and  strategic planning. And looking ahead to Greenbuild in Philadelphia.Links: https://greenbuildingunited.org/event/2024-sustainability-symposium/https://greenbuil...

Bonus Episode: Insight into Green Building United, the Sustainability Symposium and Greenbuild 2024

Passive House Podcast Co-Host Mary James and Ilka Cassidy had the pleasure of speaking with Cindy Wilson, co-founder of Intelligent City, a  company based in British Columbia, Canada. Cindy shares the innovative journey of Intelligent City, which began with a vision to improve urban living through sustainable, efficient construction. She delves into the company's evolution from traditional architectural practices to the use of advanced robotics in manufacturing building components. Cindy...

188: Building Intelligent Cities

In this episode of the Passive House Podcast co-host Zack Semke speaks with Tim McDonald of Onion Flats Architecture on the heels of Tim's involvement in the Reimagine Building PREFAB conference. Tim discusses his firm's current portfolio of passive deep energy retrofit projects  and shares his growing realization that we need to fundamentally rethink our understanding of the economics of retrofits. Compared to building new, saving buildings is cheap! To prove the point, he walks us thro...

167: Financing 101 for Affordable Housing

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