COTE x WIA Passive House Tour

Celebrate Earth Month: Passive House Tour in Park Slope with Jane Sanders

This Earth Month, experience first hand how skillful design and construction can save the planet. This 1870’s Park Slope row house was retrofitted in 2015 to achieve Passive House EnerPHit certification.

The house is airtight, well-insulated, and has a constant supply of fresh filtered air through its energy recovery ventilator. Other energy saving components include triple glazed high performance windows and skylights, solar hot water, induction cooking, and an ethanol burning fireplace.

Architect Jane Sanders will walk us through the design principles of Passive House Construction and reveal how they were implemented in this retrofit by sharing construction photos and details.

Note: The house is located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. The exact address will be shared with registrants.

Jane Sanders is Associate Principal and Director of Sustainability at Henson Architecture. She has been a certified Passive House Designer since 2011 and a Registered Architect since 1995. Her work focuses on Passive House retrofits of historic buildings and phased building upgrades to comply with New York City’s Local Law 97. She recently completed a EnerPHit Certified Passive House retrofit of a townhouse in the Carnegie Hill Historic District and a retrofit of an apartment in Brooklyn as a repeatable strategy to retrofit occupied multifamily buildings one unit at a time. Before Joining Henson, she had her own urban residential practice for over fifteen years where she completed 3 EnerPHit Certified Passive House rowhouse retrofits.

Prior to that, she specialized in historic preservation and adaptive reuse at Jan Hird Pokorny Associates and was project architect for the Brooklyn Historical Society restoration and the 79th Street Maintenance facility in Central Park. Jane was selected by the Department of Buildings to serve on the 2019 and 2025 NYC Energy Conservation Code Residential Advisory Committees. She is a Board Member of New York Passive House, and is a member of the Association for Preservation Technology Technical Committee on Sustainable Preservation and AIA Brooklyn’s Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN).