Making the case for high-quality social housing and Passivhaus

Date: 7 October 2024	Time: 12.00 - 13.30
Location: Online	Cost: FREE

For any course queries please contact: James Macleod - james@thedeveloper.live

FREE lunchtime webinar organised by Festival of Place making the case for high quality social housing & Passivhaus. Find out how PHT member MUSE, Salix Homes and Salford were able to unlock high quality Passivhaus affordable homes with the nine-storey Greenhaus development.

Learn how up-front investment in the highest environmental standards in social housing can reduce long-term costs, whilst enhancing the long-term benefits to communities.

Programme

In this 80-min lunchtime learning event you’ll learn how high quality and sustainable social housing can be both cost effective and deliver substantial health and wellbeing benefits for communities. Hear from an independent academic expert on the challenges and opportunities when it comes to Passivhaus and environmental standards.

Attendees will learn:

The health benefits of investing in high quality social housing. What do we know now, and what further research is being done?
How the additional up-front cost of building to Passivhaus standards can be returned over time. How much more does it cost, what are the paybacks, and what is the period or timeline for benefits to be felt?
How to ensure consistent quality of delivery and get buy-in from the supply chain, communities and key stakeholders