A German-born energy efficiency standard for multifamily housing gains steam in US city
Lizzie Kane | Chicago Tribune
A.J. Patton, CEO and managing partner of 548 Enterprise in Chicago, said he started his company in 2016 to lower people’s costs and build sustainably. Building to the Passive House standard is one way to do this, he said. Patton has two multifamily affordable housing projects in the pipeline incorporating Passive House design, and he said he thinks more developers would use the standard if they saw it being done to scale.“It’s a follower’s market,” Patton said.
Single-family Passive House homes were built years prior to the multifamily projects, as the standard was originally geared toward single-family homes, according to Isaac Elnecave, policy specialist at Phius. Illinois has 20 Passive House single-family homes underway or completed, 13 of which are in the Chicago area, according to Phius’ certified project database.
Chicago’s building code was changed to accommodate the Passive House standard in 2022 with the adoption of the Chicago Energy Transformation Code, which allows Phius-certified buildings as an alternative method of compliance with building energy codes. A statewide building energy code will be implemented soon, Elnecave said.
CJ Miller, left, and Tom Deneen install a trunk line for an HVAC system that will supply fresh air in the Conservatory Apartments in Garfield Park on Aug. 2, 2023. The system reuses conditioned air for energy savings. “I truly believe this is the way we’re going to build in the future,” said Susan King, principal with HED Architects and the architect for the project. “We have to be more conservative with our resources.”
548 Enterprise’s two multifamily Passive House projects are expected to break ground either at the end of this year or early next year.
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