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Passive House is often seen as a technical endpoint for energy efficiency, but its true potential lies in serving as a foundational platform for holistic, transformative design.

Join Mithun associate principal and sustainability integration lead Mike Fowler for “From Air-Tight to All-In: When Performance Enables Purpose” to explore how to move beyond building-scale optimization toward Integrated Systems Design — connecting high-performance to community, ecology and human development. Mike will share a case study of The Bush School Upper School, one of only two U.S. projects designed for Passive House certification that have received an AIA COTE Top Ten Award. Attendees will learn strategies for turning a high-performance building into a catalyst for social equity and ecological restoration, and gain practical guidance on fostering collaborative team environments and applying transferable systems thinking to projects of any scale.

Date Posted: 06.05.2026