The Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te

The Pass­ive House In­sti­tu­te is an in­ter­na­tion­ally lead­ing in­de­pend­ent re­search in­sti­tu­te with ex­tens­ive ex­pert­ise in the field of highly en­ergy-ef­fi­cient con­struc­tion and ren­ov­a­tion. It was foun­ded in 1996 by the de­ve­loper of the Pass­ive House concept, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Feist.

For his re­search, Wolfgang Feist was awar­ded the Ger­man En­vir­on­ment Prize (the highest en­vir­on­ment­al award in Ger­many) by the Fed­er­al En­vir­on­ment­al Found­a­tion in 2001. Moreover, he re­ceived the In­ter­na­tion­al En­vir­on­ment Prize of the City of Gothen­burg in 2003 (to­geth­er with Swedish ar­chi­tect Hans Eek) as well as the Sus­tain­able Build­ing Award 2014 from the City of Lund (to­geth­er with Prof. Dr. Bo Adam­son).

The world's first Pass­ive House was built in Darm­stadt, Ger­many, in 1990 (Data­base ID 0195). To this day, the multi-fam­ily home im­presses with its ex­tremely low heat­ing en­ergy con­sump­tion of less than 10 kWh/(m²a).