Valentine Gomez is the founder of Gomex Engineering and the first certified passive house designer on PEI (Prince Edward Island, Canada's island province). He thinks of Passivhaus as a kind of gateway rabbit hole, which has since led him down further, deeper rabbit holes, focused on healthy building materials, and including his achieving a Living Future accreditation.

In this episode, we talk about Valentine's experience as the first to bring Passivhaus to a new area, his tactics for getting people on board, and why he thinks municipalities are missing a trick by not choosing to build publicly owned buildings to the Passivhaus standard.

Connect with Valentine and Gomex Engineering:

• Valentine on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/valentine-t-gomez-p-eng-cphd-lfa-4688572a/

• Gomex Engineering on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/gomex-engineering-ltd/

• Gomex Engineering on Instagram => https://www.instagram.com/passivehousepei/
  
  
• Gomex Engineering website => https://www.gomex-engineering.com/

Lindsey Love came to Passivhaus via bio-based materials, marrying the two and comfortably working with both. With her new venture, Regenerative Building Solutions, Lindsey steps further into the role of teacher, advisor, and consultant, helping people incorporate more natural materials into their own high-performance projects.

In this episode, we talk about the gap between builders and architects when it comes to Passivhaus (and what needs to be done to fill it), the power of curriculum-based affordable housing projects, how and when to let your inner building science nerd out, and much more.

Connect with Lindsey and Regenerative Building Solutions:

• Lindsey on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/regenbuilding/

• Regenerative Building Solutions on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/regen-building/

• Regenerative Building Solutions on Instagram => https://www.instagram.com/regen_building_solutions/

• Regenerative Building Solutions website => https://www.regenbuilding.com/

Dr. Wolfgang Feist is a professor and mathematical physicist who began his career in quantum mechanics and astronomy before becoming interested in energy efficiency in buildings and moving into engineering, which led him to the late Bo Adamson, a Swedish building scientist and professor at Lund University. Together, they co-originated and developed the Passivhaus standard in the late 1980s, with Dr. Feist going on to found the Passivhaus-Institut (PHI) in 1996, in Darmstadt, Germany.

In this episode, we talk about Dr. Feist's experience living in the world's first (and therefore longest-existing) certified Passivhaus, the changes in attitude and relevance he's seen over the years, the misconceptions that block people from embracing Passivhaus, what Passivhaus really is, and the best way he sees for the movement to continue to spread.

Connect with Dr. Feist and the Passive House Institute:

• Dr. Feist on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/in/wolfgang-feist-5287951b/

• Passive House Institute on LinkedIn => https://www.linkedin.com/company/passive-house-institute/

• Passive House Institute on Bluesky => https://bsky.app/profile/ipha.bsky.social

• Passive House Institute website => https://passivehouse.com/en/home/

• Passipedia website =>https://passipedia.org/