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Mainstreaming Passive Buildings by Re-Thinking Design Premiums

Mainstreaming Passive Buildings by Re-Thinking Design Premiums

12 Nov 2024|Greenbuild 2024
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Susan KingSusan KingPrincipal/Housing Studio Leader at HED

Susan F. King, FAIA, LEED AP BD+C, LFA is a Principal and Sector Leader with HED, based in their Chicago Office. As the Housing Leader for the Midwest, advocating for both attainable housing and green market transformation of the building industry has been a primary focus of her career. Her award winning work includes buildings which integrate social, economic, and environmental responsibility with aesthetically appealing design solutions for underserved populations. As a Principal she leads multidisciplinary teams towards achieving aesthetically appealing sustainable solutions in a collaborative integrated design setting.

Ms. King is a past Chair of the AIA Chicago Committee on the Environment and a past President of Chicago Women in Architecture. In 2013 she was the eighteenth woman from Illinois to be elevated to the National AIA College of Fellows. She was also recognized by Green Building & Design Magazine with a Women in Sustainability Leadership Award in 2016, joining an elite group of women from across the country.

King is currently serving on two Boards, the Illinois Housing Council (IHC) and the Chicago Women in Architecture Foundation. (CWAF). She was also recognized by Green Building & Design Magazine with a Women in Sustainability Leadership Award in 2016 and by the University of Cincinnati as Alumni of the Year in 2018.

Doug FarrDoug FarrPresident at Farr Associates

Douglas Farr FAIA leads Chicago-based Farr Associates identified by the New York Times as "the most prominent of the city's growing cadre of ecologically sensitive architects." The firm has designed many of the Chicago regions most sustainable buildings including the Chicago Center for Green Technology, the Yannell House, the Keller Center, and the Academy for Global Citizenship. Doug authored two books: Sustainable Urbanism (2008) and Sustainable Nation (201😎. In 2020 he started Carbon Free Chicago, a thirty-year campaign for the timely and equitable transition to a fossil-free region. In 2023 he co-founded the Climate Action Museum, only the world’s eighth museum devoted to climate.

Chris BenedictChris BenedictArchitect at Chris Benedict, R.A.

Chris Benedict is an Architect in NYC, on the brink of her 30th anniversary in business. Delighting in the poetry of sustainability, she has created iconic passive house buildings, both new buildings and retrofits. Her current focus is modular passive house and passive house retrofits with tenants in place. She is a sought after speaker whose innovations have changed minds, codes, financing, and the way buildings are made and perform.

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Passive (PHIUS-Certified) buildings are healthier, more resilient, and use a lot less energy than conventional buildings. The benefits to owners and occupants of passive buildings can be truly impressive: 1. Improved alertness and respiratory health from providing 100% fresh outdoor air supply with only a nominal energy penalty. 2. The security and peace of mind that results from the building’s ability to hold a nearly constant temperature for days in a power outage, and 3. The operational cost savings that come from using less than half the energy of a conventional building. Based on these amazing benefits it is fair to ask: “How could every new building be a passive building?”

Passive buildings achieve their exemplary performance by following five green building principles: 1. Continuous insulation, 2. High performance windows and doors, 3. Smaller space conditioning systems, 4. Airtight envelope, and 5. A balanced heat and moisture recovery system (to enhance indoor air quality.) Put simply, these building-science-based principles result in a better-than-average building. But passive buildings can cost more than conventional construction—a cost premium of 6% or more— enough to pose a significant barrier to the widespread adoption of passive building design.

Architects are uniquely positioned to lead their clients to achieve PHIUS-certification for the least possible cost premium. Here’s how. Most architect-designed projects feature design upgrades and amenities that increase building costs by 5 to 10% as compared to conventional buildings. Through “integrated design” it is possible to reallocate how money is spent in a building project to achieve the benefits of passive buildings within the client’s budget. There are two challenges of pulling this off: 1. The scarcity of the expertise to lead a team through the cost reallocation process, and 2. The architect’s strong emphasis on how a building looks, makes it hard to shift money from visible to invisible design elements. The most promising strategy to mainstreaming passive buildings hinges on the ability of architects to retrain their brains—to exercise neuroplasticity—to assign higher value to beneficial things they cannot see.

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