{"id":1004575674,"date":"2022-04-12T03:11:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T11:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004575674"},"modified":"2025-03-14T12:00:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T20:00:54","slug":"how-passive-house-design-is-reaching-new-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/how-passive-house-design-is-reaching-new-heights\/","title":{"rendered":"How Passive House Design Is Reaching New Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/podcasters.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/cpexecutive\/embed\/episodes\/Sustainability-Street-How-Passive-House-Design-Is-Reaching-New-Heights-e1h2ua1\/a-a7o8tbc\" height=\"200px\" width=\"800px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" ><\/iframe>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004575675\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004575675\" data-attachment-id=\"1004575675\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/how-passive-house-design-is-reaching-new-heights\/kathy-macneil-sept-2021-headshot-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Kathy-MacNeil-Sept-2021-headshot-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,621\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kathy MacNeil Sept 2021 headshot 1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Millennium Partners President Kathleen MacNeil.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Kathy-MacNeil-Sept-2021-headshot-1.jpg?w=800\" class=\"wp-image-1004575675 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Kathy-MacNeil-Sept-2021-headshot-1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Kathy-MacNeil-Sept-2021-headshot-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Kathy-MacNeil-Sept-2021-headshot-1.jpg?resize=300,233 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Kathy-MacNeil-Sept-2021-headshot-1.jpg?resize=768,596 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004575675\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Millennium Partners Principal Kathleen MacNeil.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Passive House design emerged in Germany in the 1990s as a way to reduce energy consumption and improve air quality. Since then, its use has evolved from single-family homes to institutional buildings to multifamily and commercial structures.<\/p>\n<p>Those standards have never been employed, however, to the length or the height that <strong>MP Boston<\/strong>, the local affiliate of <strong>Millennium Partners<\/strong>, is applying them. Winthrop Center, a mixed-use tower in Downton Boston with 812,000 square feet of office space, will be the largest passive house office building in the world.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004575676\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Winthrop-image-2-2.3.22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004575676\" data-attachment-id=\"1004575676\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/how-passive-house-design-is-reaching-new-heights\/winthrop-image-2-2-3-22\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Winthrop-image-2-2.3.22.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,649\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Winthrop image 2 2.3.22\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Winthrop Center in Boston. Image courtesy of Millennium Partners&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Winthrop-image-2-2.3.22.jpg?w=800\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1004575676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Winthrop-image-2-2.3.22.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Winthrop-image-2-2.3.22.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Winthrop-image-2-2.3.22.jpg?resize=300,243 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2022\/04\/Winthrop-image-2-2.3.22.jpg?resize=768,623 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004575676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Winthrop Center in Boston. Image courtesy of Millennium Partners<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Welcome back to \u201cSustainability Street,\u201d CPE\u2019s podcast on the intersection of commercial estate and the world we live in. In this episode, Executive Editor Therese Fitzgerald interviews Millennium Partners Principal Kathleen MacNeil to learn about the science and the marketing behind this groundbreaking project.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a sample of the topics the episode covers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Winthrop Center vision (2:18)<\/li>\n<li>The building\u2019s efficiency metrics (8:52)<\/li>\n<li>Challenges of building in New England (10:41)<\/li>\n<li>The economics of Passive House (12:47)<\/li>\n<li>Passive House and wellness (14:12)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Millennium Partners Principal Kathleen MacNeil visits &#8220;Sustainability Street&#8221; to discuss the world&#8217;s largest Passive House office building development. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"featured_media":1004575676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21795,21786],"tags":[43103,52571],"class_list":["post-1004575674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcasts","category-sustainability","tag-millennium-partners","tag-sustainability-street","post_format-post-format-audio"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How Passive House Design Is Reaching New Heights - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/how-passive-house-design-is-reaching-new-heights\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How Passive House Design Is Reaching New Heights\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Millennium Partners Principal Kathleen MacNeil visits &quot;Sustainability Street&quot; 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