2019 PHnw Annual Conference: 10 Years of Building Beyond Zero

2019 PHnw Annual Conference: 10 Years of Building Beyond Zero will take place on February 28th – March 1st, 2019 in Portland, Oregon, United States. This is the 10th Anniversary Conference and it will have a retrospective of the amazing work of Passive House Northwest and salute the founders and members of the organization that continue to strive for high-performance buildings in a climate of code minimum standards.

Keynote Speaker Carly Coulson will discuss Invisible Sustainability: A design approach that exceeds 2030 targets by using integrated passive design and advanced energy modeling to create amazingly rich aesthetic spaces that are seamlessly high-performing.

Keynote Speaker Kathie Dello, the Associate Director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute and the Deputy Director of the Oregon Climate Service, will speak to how Climate Change is affecting our region.

passivKeynote Speaker Astronaut Michael López-Alegría will speak at the Special Thursday Dinner Event. López Alegría held the record for the longest spaceflight at 215 days and he has spent more time spacewalking than any American. Come find out the R-Value of the wall assembly on the International Space Station and get a perspective of our planet that very few people have ever had.