Phius Passive Buildings
How to apply the science and certification process in the field
Rob Leonard, Construction Industry Consultant, Trainer, and Instructor
Monday, April 15 at 4:00 pm
FREE and open to the public. Attendance will be tracked for faculty offering extra credit to students.
What's this session about and who's the expert?
This session will delve deeper into Phius, a program committed to decarbonizing the built environment by making high-performance passive building the mainstream market standard. Phius trains and certifies professionals, maintains and updates the Phius climate-specific passive building standard, and certifies passive buildings, by way of third party field verification in a wide variety of building typologies. The Phius building certification process can be best applied by way of early and full integration of all the project’s stakeholders including those who build these comfortable, resilient, durable, healthy, and energy efficient buildings. This session will put forward best practices and methods to deliver these from the project documents onto the project site.
Rob Leonard has more than 40 years in the construction industry with specialized experience in building science, high performing buildings, and improving on how buildings are built and renovated. Rob’s certifications and accreditations include State of Virginia DPOR Class “A” builder qualified; HERS Rater; Energy Star Rater; former PHIUS+ Rater; former PHIUS+ Large Building Verifier; Phius Certified Passive House Builder Instructor, NAHB Certified Green Professional; NCCER Certified Instructor; NCCER Master Trainer; HBI Certified Instructor; NSC Principles of Occupational Safety and Health Trained, OSHA #510 and #500 Certified; OTI OSHA Instructor; ACE Certified Personal Trainer; ACE Certified Health Coach and ACE Certified Senior Fitness Coach.
