Carmel Pratt – Bright Power

Passive House Podcast cohost Zack Semke interviews Carmel Pratt, VP at Bright Power in New York City. Carmel discusses her firm's work delivering affordable multifamily Passive House projects, including the recently-completed Park Avenue Green project, as well as two projects underway, Chestnut Commons and Vital Brookdale, all in NYC. Carmel and Zack also discuss the state of building energy policy in New York and Bright Power's collaboration with several other NYC groups in gathering data and putting together a report to demonstrate to lenders that Passive House energy savings bring real and predictable financial savings for building owners.   Link to the Multifamily Passive House: Connecting Performance to Financing report that Carmel discusses:  https://www.brightpower.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Multifamily-Passive-House-Performance-to-Financing-1.pdf  Links to news stories that Zack and co-host Matthew Cutler-Welsh discuss:  https://www.cpr.org/2022/09/30/marshall-fire-climate-friendly-homes/  https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2022/10/inflation-reduction-act-climate-economy/671659/  Info about upcoming events:  https://passivehouseaccelerator.com/articles/passive-house-weekly-october-10-2022 Thank you for listening to the Passive House Podcast! To learn more about Passive House and to stay abreast of our latest programming, visit passivehouseaccelerator.com. And please join us at one of our Passive House Accelerator LIVE! zoom gatherings on Wednesdays.