As a non-profit organization, PHMass relies on membership support to put on events like our monthly meetings, annual symposium, training sessions, and building tours, as well as fund our advocacy work supporting the growth and adoption of Passive House throughout the state and region.
Professional Development Benefits:
- Monthly meetings and trainings featuring industry experts – in person and virtually
- Opportunity to host Passive House training sessions at your offices and/or virtually
- Complimentary Individual Memberships for a certain number of employees
- Opportunity for Individual Members to join PHMass sub-committees
- Discounted tickets to our Annual Passive House Symposium
Marketing Benefits:
- Logo on PHMass newsletters and PHMass website
- Logo displayed at PHMass meetings and events
- Business Listing in the PHMass Professional Directory
- Ability to post to PHMass job board – in monthly newsletter and on website
- Ability to display the PHMass Member logo on your company’s website
- Discounted Sponsorship opportunities for our Annual Passive House Symposium
Choose your Membership Level
You can make a recurring Membership contribution by card using the Donorbox app below. If you would like to receive an invoice and pay by check instead, email exec@phmass.org. Non-profit organizations are encouraged to contribute 50% of the stated levels (and can use the Custom Donation option to do so).
Complimentary Individual Memberships
Level | Contribution* | # of Complimentary Individual Memberships** |
| Sole Proprietor | $300 | 1 |
| Sustainer | $1,000 | 2 |
| Bronze | $1,500 | 3 |
| Silver | $3,000 | 5 |
| Gold | $5,000 | 7 |
| Platinum | $7,500 | 10 |
| Diamond | $10,000 | 15 |
- *non-profit organizations are encouraged to contribute at 50% of the suggested level
- ** $150 per person value
Recent Accomplishments
- We released a major report on Cost-Efficient Passive House Delivery: Learning from the Massachusetts Experience. We interviewed more than 40 Passive House practitioners—developers, architects, engineers, consultants, verifiers, and contractors—to identify the most pressing educational needs facing the industry today and develop a strategy to meet them. Together, our interviewees have worked on 136 distinct Passive House projects across the Commonwealth. In a competitive industry where experience is a hard-earned asset, they generously shared their time and knowledge to help everyone working in this field.
- We hired two new staff members to increase the capacity of the organization to serve our members: Beth Campbell (our new Education Program Director) and Alexander Gard-Murray (our new Executive Director).
- We have continued our partnership with the Mass Save Passive House & All-Electric Homes Training Program, which has now provided over 90 free Lunch & Learns and Workshops, many of which have recordings available in our Online Video Library for on-demand viewing.
- We overhauled our Passive House 101 curriculum to more effectively introduce people at all levels to the basics behind passive building, which we can deliver free to your organization. We can deliver this course for free to your organization.
- Over the last few years, we’ve worked extensively with the DOER to incorporate the Passive House into the Specialized Opt-In Stretch Code. The final version of the Opt-In Code now requires all multi-family buildings over 12,000 GSF to be Passive House certified and allows Passive House as a pre-approved alternative pathway for all other projects. This is a first in the nation accomplishment.
- We’ve supported towns and cities across the Commonwealth by providing presentations, trainings, fact sheets, and other resources. More than 50 municipalities have now opted in. When Boston announced their commitment to opting-in, Mayor Wu directly thanked PHMass in her press conference for our work in getting these new codes passed.
- Beyond training, we’ve continued to support and advocate for the Mass Save Passive House Incentive Program and have seen it reach over 30,000 registered units of housing across the state. The program provides up to $3,750 per unit for certified multifamily projects as well as additional funding for feasibility studies and energy modeling costs, and single-family incentives starting at $25,000.