Bronwyn Barry Profile picture
Smitten with high performance design and the Passive House Standard. Global collaborator. PHCA & NAPHN founding member. African (Saffa), Irish, American.
Nov 24, 2019 40 tweets 48 min read
It’s a bit overdue, but I did promise to write a report on my trip to China, to attend #IPHC23. (23rd International Passive House Conference.) Here it is.... as long, and probably rambling,🧵. I’ll break my #iphc23 report into chapters: 1. Plenary & Policy Overview, 2. Conference presentations, 3. Expo, followed by 4. An editorial. (And perhaps some highlights of the short vacation I took afterwards to #Xinjiang, if I have time.)
Apr 26, 2019 29 tweets 18 min read
Belated posts from @CABECdotorg conference: Keynote from @CalEnergy Commissioner McAllister told us we need to double our efficiency by 2030. 1/ Looked ahead to what this means for 2019 code cycle.... (which is starting to look kinda familiar..) 2/
Feb 25, 2019 8 tweets 6 min read
🧵: I’m in Heidelberg 🇩🇪 today and have made my way to Bahnstadt, to take a closer look at what an entire neighborhood of #Passivhaus looks like...1/ Large portions of the district are still under construction, but much of the central boulevard and offshoot streets, mostly comprised of residential units, are complete. 2/