Day:	Sunday
Location:	Lawrence Hall Room 115
Time:	9:00 am - 10:20 am

The term Passive House (Passivhaus in German) refers specifically to buildings which have met the rigorous voluntary Passive House energy design standard . It results in ultra-low energy buildings (typically cutting space heating energy use by 90% from code minimums, and cutting total building energy use by 70%) . The literal translation of 'Passivhaus' is 'Passive Building', and appropriately the standard is not confined only to houses. Several office buildings, schools, kindergartens and a supermarket have also been constructed to the standard. Passive House design, aided by the use of a specialized excel-based energy modeling program , is not a supplement to standard architectural design, but an integral part of the entire design process. The first Passive House buildings were built in Darmstadt, Germany, in 1990. Since then, more than 6,000 Passive House buildings have been constructed in Europe, most of them in Germany and Austria, with others in various countries world-wide. In North America the first Passive House was built in Urbana, Illinois in 2003, and the first to be certified was built at Waldsee, Minnesota, in 2006. In 2007 the Passive House Institute-US (PHIUS) was founded in Urbana, Illinois in order to facilitate the certification of Passive Houses in the US.

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Dylan Lamar has spent the past few years studying and working with energy-related building design principles. His studies in the “Passive House” method began at the University of Illinois, designing affordable housing prototypes through a local nonprofit organization, continued with training at the Passivhaus Institut of Darmstadt, Germany, and he recently worked in Taos, New Mexico, designing Passive House custom homes. He currently works at the Energy Studies in Buildings Laboratory of the University of Oregon.