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28th International Passive House Conference - Proceedings (2026)
The 28th International Passive House Conference in Essen brought together experts, researchers, and participants to explore how energy efficiency can bring a sustainable and renewable energy future. With a particular focus on retrofitting buildings, the conference highlighted innovative solutions, practical experiences, and the ongoing development of the Passive House.
Below is the index of authors of the 28th International Passive House Conference Proceedings, the conference proceedings are available for download here*
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| Author | Title | Session |
|---|---|---|
| Arnautu, Dragos-Ionut; Moelis, Deborah | Sendero Verde NYC - The tallest Passive House building in the world | Keynote Plenary |
| Arnautu, Dragos-Ionut; Stanley, Warren | Designing and delivering high quality student accommodation: urbanest’s Passivhaus certified Battersea building | Large Passive House buildings |
| Atli, Efe; Çelik, Cihan; Pallantzas, Dimitris; Saraclar, Akif Yagiz | Atlı House - Passive House Plus hybrid residence & “restaurant” (Türkiye): Challenges, solutions, and measured performance in a seismic and hybrid-use context | Highly energy-efficient non-residential buildings |
| Aydinoglu, Esra (Serdar) | Active people of passive buildings: Building Turkey's market through training and outreach | Policy for Passive House |
| Beattie, Federica Romeo | Retrofit of part of Claridge House, a 1920s occupied building in Mayfair, London | Challenging details |
| Breuss, Samuel; Ochs, Fabian | Towards positive energy districts - simulation and optimisation methods and workflow | Challenges in the Austrian |
| Brüchmann, Anja-Kathrin; Weik, Sebastian | Air conditioning split units as the sole heat source for a single-family home after renovation | Ventilation and heat pumps |
| Clarke, Alan | Impact of location of MVHR extract in shower rooms | Ventilation and heat pumps |
| Cortinhas, Joana; Franca, Maria; Gavião, João | Two pioneer retrofit case studies: a two-family residential building and an office unit | EnerPHit in warm climates |
| Davies, Jon | Retrofit at scale with predictability and simplicity | Challenging details |
| Dekker, Eelco; Geerts, Jan | “A new love” - Pioneering Paris proof design in Rotterdam | Highly energy-efficient and low carbon solutions |
| Dermentzis, Georgios | Low-cost monitoring - several case study results | Affordability |
| Digilli, Mustafa; Gökgün, Bilal; Özcan, Fuat; Somuncu, Yasemin | Bridging policy and practice: How Passive House supports Türkiye's nZEB ambitions - from national frameworks to the Karatay case | Policy for Passive House |
| Díaz, Antón Nuria; Vogt, Anne | How can a Passive House residence improve quality of life for elderly disabled people? | Large Passive House buildings |
| Eian, Tim; Peper, Søren | Good Energy House monitoring, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA | Ventilation and heat pumps |
| Engin, İsmail; Tombak, Esra Turan | Evaluation of deep renovation and NZEB pilot examples of public buildings | Energy-efficient educational buildings |
| Feist, Wolfgang | Review and outlook: 35 years of Passive Houses | Closing plenary |
| Fernandez, Camacho Guillermo | Transitioning to Passive House on a large scale residential project in Ireland | Large Passive House buildings |
| Fisher, Kelly; Rivera, Irene | Challenging aspects of achieving Passive House standards in a retail bank branch building | Highly energy-efficient non-residential buildings |
| Fitzsimmons, Jason; McCreith, Matthew; Wardle, Joshua | PH Leisure Centres: Evolution from Eclipse & Cranleigh | Highly energy-efficient non-residential buildings |
| Fowler, Mike | Passive House breakthrough: The Bush School – A systems approach to sustainable design | Highly energy-efficient and low carbon solutions |
| Franca, Maria; Gavião, João; Marcelino, João | The first Passive House Plus office building in Portugal - an optimization process | Highly energy-efficient non-residential buildings |
| Franca, Maria; Gavião, João; Marcelino, João | The Passive House Center - practical training, building community and spreading knowledge | AchieVE-ZEB Session: Training |
| Fraser, Dave | King William Street Passive House: Achieving Passive House in an affordable housing context | Large Passive House buildings |
| Fraser, Dave; Peel, Andrew | Cold Air Distribution - Design and implementation challenges and solutions | Challenging details |
| Freundorfer, Franz | smartshell reno: First certified building system in the new category “renovation” | EnerPHit retrofits |
| Gkadri, Maria | Isavella Passivistas: The Tavros Project - first EnerPHit multi-family building in Athens | EnerPHit in warm climates |
| Gökgün, Bilal; Pallantzas, Dimitris; Sungun, Ceren Gül | From design decisions to measured reality: A comparative study of passive and conventional houses in Konya | AchieVE-ZEB Session: Training |
| Goossen, Carl-Peter | EnerPHit renovation of a 1971 apartment complex | Large Passive House buildings |
| Hamill, George; Kelly, Gary; McKenna, Seán | A comparative analysis of ICF and cavity walls for Passive House delivery and embodied carbon performance in new-build dwellings | Highly energy-efficient and low carbon solutions |
| Haroska, Darya; Hartl, Nicole; Ipser, Christina; Radinger, Gregor; Winkel, Susanne | Advancing zero-emission buildings through innovative professional training | AchieVE-ZEB Session: Training |
| Hasper, Wolfgang | Integrating wooden beams into the airtight layer | EnerPHit retrofits |
| Hasper, Wolfgang | Controlling heat recovery in ventilation units for Passive House Standard buildings | Ventilation and heat pumps |
| Hood, Stuart | Innovative ventilation system for affordable, resilient, low-carbon multi-family residential housing | Large Passive House buildings |
| Horn, Gerrit | Refurbishing existing prefabricated houses to Passive House Standard | EnerPHit retrofits |
| Ilic, Milos | First Passive House social housing project in Cyprus | Affordability |
| Ingui, Michael | From niche to necessary: scaling Passive House for a resilient future | |
| Ingui, Michael; May, Edwin | From firehouse to Passive House: Engine 16 retrofit in Manhattan | Highly energy-efficient and low carbon solutions |
| Kaufmann, Berthold; Schnieders, Jürgen | Innovations in the evaluation and certification of heat pumps and compact heat pump units | Ventilation and heat pumps |
| Kaufmann, Berthold; Muskatewitz, Adrian; Patyna, Magdalena; Schulz, Tanja; Seibert, Johannes | Passive House schools in modular timber construction | Challenges in the Austrian |
| Kierulf, Bjørn | Industrial production hall with no heating installed | Highly energy-efficient non-residential buildings |
| Kisfaludi-Bak, Zoltán; Varga, Szabolcs | Cost impact of building shape and orientation in Passive House design | Affordability |
| Knissel, Jens | Energy-efficient “semi-central ventilation system” for non-residential buildings | Challenges in the Austrian |
| Knowles, Kit; Mohammadpourkarbasi, Haniyeh | Knowles Kit Achieving EnerPHit in the UK's heritage listed buildings with the EARTH framework | Highly energy-efficient and low carbon solutions |
| Kontaroudis, George | Restoring heritage with performance: Integrating traditional building techniques in a Passive House retrofit | EnerPHit in warm climates |
| Krause, Harald; Obermaier, Sebastian; Wirnsberger, Markus | Long-term functional reliability of residential ventilation systems | Ventilation and heat pumps |
| Krick, Benjamin | Cost-effective heating and hot water preparation - a field report | Ventilation and heat pumps |
| Krick, Benjamin; Schnieders, Jürgen | Climate-friendly retrofits in Riedstadt - How a municipality can succeed in the energy transition | EnerPHit retrofits |
| Lepp, Laszlo; Steiger, Jan | The EnerPHit concept as the key to transformation of the existing building stock | Opening Plenary |
| Lepp, Laszlo; South, Will | Uniting 7 faculties and a concert hall at the University of Oxford, with Passivhaus! Quality assurance and certification challenges of a complex university building | Keynote Plenary |
| Linnig, Jörg; Meier, Jonas | Decarbonisation of existing buildings with modular cold district heating: Heat supply concept for the SOS Children's Village Kleve | Challenges in the Austrian; Decarbonisation of existing buildings with modular cold district heating: Heat supply concept for the SOS Children's Village Kleve |
| Lock, Timothy | Embodied ecology: Climate-aligned design at the Davis Center for Human Ecology & The Bush School – A systems approach to sustainable design | Highly energy-efficient and low carbon solutions |
| López, García Soraya; Muskatewitz, Adrian; Yakimchuk, Tatiana | Towards energy-efficient industrial doors | Challenging details |
| Magni, Mara; Malzer, Harald; Monteleone, William; Ochs, Fabian; Tosatto, Alice; Venturi, Elisa | Techno-economic assessment of battery and hydrogen energy storage in a positive energy multi-apartment building | Challenging details |
| Malzer, Harald Konrad | Affordable green living including free electricity | Affordability |
| Mancini, Ilektra; Pallantzas, Dimitris | District-level solutions: From modeling to 100 buildings monitoring - How to tackle energy poverty | Policy for Passive House |
| Martello, Dylan; Saldanha, Cheryl | Restoring the past, protecting the future | Challenging details |
| Maxa, Sven | Making Passivhaus mainstream: Bridging design, construction, and supply challenges | Affordability |
| Melachroinou, Evgenia Maria; Pallantzas, Dimitris | Thermal comfort evaluation and demand flexibility | EnerPHit in warm climates |
| Minella, Manuel; Nesi, Francesco | From design to disaster? A practical training framework to build what we design | AchieVE-ZEB Session: Training |
| Ong, Emily; York, James | From Printing Press to Micro Power Station: A Model for Net-Positive Energy Buildings? | Highly energy-efficient non-residential buildings; From Printing Press to Micro Power Station: A Model for Net-Positive Energy Buildings? |
| Ong, Emily; York, James | Passivhaus at scale: Delivering Scotland's largest Passivhaus social housing with modern methods of construction (MMC) | Affordability |
| Putrams, Mikelis | Salaspils kindergarten - the first certified Passive House kindergarten in the Baltic states | Energy-efficient educational buildings |
| Rose, Clarence | EnerPHit in a 360° approach: Renovating together with neighbors | EnerPHit retrofits |
| Rubio, Ezquieta Fernando | Balancing policy and performance | Policy for Passive House |
| Schack, Lindsay | Driving transformation in the Rocky Mountain West: From low energy to low carbon | AchieVE-ZEB Session: Training |
| Sifferlen, Camille | Creating a sustainable home with DIY ingenuity | Affordability |
| Slater, Alex | PassivHouse AktivCommunication | Highly energy-efficient and low carbon solutions |
| Stewart, Scott; Style, Oliver | Planning for peak cooling loads: Extending PHPP to support robust system sizing under climate and behavioural variability | EnerPHit in warm climates |
| Style, Oliver | Certifying Passivhaus without losing your cool: 12 field-tested tips | AchieVE-ZEB Session: Training |
| Suciu, Dan | Smart doesn't mean easy: Retrofitting a 1905 house to PHPP low-energy standard | EnerPHit in warm climates |
| Theumer, Susanne | Working Group 62: Cost-effective retrofit of residential buildings | EnerPHit retrofits |
| Traub, Matthew | Hinsley Lane: A new “community of communities” for university students in Cambridge, UK | Energy-efficient educational buildings |
| Treviño, Quiroz Lourdes | The House on the Path: EnerPHit retrofit and technical strategies for comfort and heritage preservation | EnerPHit in warm climates |
| Tsakoumakis, Nektarios | From blueprint to classroom: The first purpose-built Passive House kindergarten in Greece | Energy-efficient educational buildings |
| Vallentin, Rainer | Climate-positive circular timber frame construction | Challenges in the Austrian |
| Vekemans, Étienne | “TOTEM de l'Innovation”: A global retrofit of a Saint Brieux building with prefabricated elements | Large Passive House buildings |
| Wassouf, Micheel | Paseo de la Passiveana 19, Madrid - a complex story | Highly energy-efficient non-residential buildings |
| Wilsdorf, Lars | smartshell reno training | AchieVE-ZEB Session: Training |
| Winkler, Markus | Passive cooling maximisation through model-predictive night ventilation - CoolBRICK project | Challenges in the Austrian |
| Zielke, Georg | Don't do things by halves! | EnerPHit retrofits |
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