#244 - Passive House & Certification - Interview With Mike Anderson

Mike Anderson is the CEO and Design Leader of Passive Design Solutions. Drawing on his combined background in architecture and physics, Mike leads a design production team and has worked on over 300 Net Zero Ready projects (100 of them passive house) throughout North America over 10 years, establishing him as one of the nation’s foremost passive house experts.

In this episode, Mike talks about solar hot water versus solar panel with heat pumps, where Passive House certification makes sense, and how larger scale projects are benefitting from Passive House.

1:27 Intro into passive house 

6:45 Passive House Certification 

20:00 Hybrid Heating Systems 

25:24 Larger Scale Apartment Projects 

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• https://www.passivedesign.ca/

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