PASSIVE HOUSE HEROES BREAKING GROUND

Event description

Following the huge success of our first WEBINAR we continue with a double bill on a great topic:

Passive House as a responsible AND viable sustainable design option.

We will talk about principles and process of Passive House Design and present Gillies Hall, the largest Passive House certified building in the Southern hemisphere.

TOPIC: PASSIVE HOUSE HEROES BREAKING GROUND

Caroline Pidcock, spokesperson for Architects Declare, will give a brief introduction and update on Architects Declare.

PRESENTATION:

Clare Parry, Passive House certifier and one of the founders of Passive House Association of Australia will introduce principles and methods of Passive House Design. She will focus on its relevance to the Australian context and the delivery of Passive House certified buildings in Australia

Simon Topliss, Associate Director of Jackson Clements Burrows Architects will introduce Gillies Hall of Monash University. It is Australia’s first student accommodation built to Passive House standards and one of Australia’s largest cross laminated timber projects. No doubt, Gillies Hall is a comfortable, healthy and thermally consistent environment, that will function as a low energy and climate resilient multi-residential building into the future, delivering on the University’s aim for a net zero campus by 2030.

Completed in 2019, Gillies Hall has received a number of awards already and is shortlisted for the 2020 Victorian Architecture Awards.

Both Clare and Simon worked together on this exciting project which has the potential to lay the path for changing the way we design, deliver and operate our buildings.

Q&A: 

Dialogue and sharing knowledge and opinions is always part of the deal, so the session will conclude with online Q&A where you can ask questions of the host and guest-presenters