appears a tailor-made response to the question raised several times at this year’s conference, “Where do we go from here?” especially in terms of embodied carbon.
Yes. This will accelerate the scaling up of net-zero ready buildings. We think this might make it more saleable to upper levels of government because it will provide the whole enchilada, all sorts of answers for them. At the same time, we are not abandoning the international Passivhaus standard. We’re not starting a new standard.
Where the current process falls short is the certification or what we’re calling verification. The number of Passive House buildings estimated to be coming out of Massachusetts alone is 10,000 a year. As we get closer to hitting our climate targets in Canada, our numbers will go up too, given the volume that will be going into the pipeline. They can’t fit through the current verification process.