Invermere, BC
Malcolm Isaacs is a Civil Engineering graduate of the University of Ottawa, and a Passive House pioneer in Canada. In 2005 he designed and built the first house in the country to Passive House specifications, in Wakefield, QC, in which he lives. Malcolm co-founded CanPHI in 2010 and has worked extensively at the Passivhaus Institut in…
Tomaz Stich grew up in Germany and worked a full apprenticeship in cabinet making before taking a 4-year diploma in wood engineering at the prestigious Hildesheim Institute of Applied Sciences, with graduate research work in wood structures at the Institite for Wood Technology Research in Stockholm, Sweden. Fluent in four languages, Tomaz qualified as a…
Single Family
Wolfe Island ON
This presentation will outline the significant cultural and site-specific challenges which needed to be identified and overcome, in order to design and build the first Passive House apartment building in Ottawa, Canada – a place known to its inhabitants as the second-coldest capital city in the world, with a climate harsher than Moscow’s. The 42…
