In time for the Winter Games, the Olympic House in Canada has been awarded the Passive House Institute Certificate.  The Passive House in Whistler, Canada, proves that Olympic records based on sustainable energy are also possible.  The 250 m² large building was jointly developed by the Austrian Passive House Group (APG) and the Municipality of Whistler and it will be at the disposal of the Austrian Committee during the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games 2010, and after the Games it will be used as a cross-country skiing and mountain bike centre.

More than eleven thousand kilometres away from Whistler, the architect Miwa Mori and her clients, the Hasumi Family, are very pleased with the first Passive House in Japan. Like the Olympic House in Whistler, this 80 m² private home was also awarded the Passive House Institute Certificate. Moving into the Passive House has had a very positive effect on the health of the family members:  the asthmatic attacks which the two children used to have in their former home do not occur in the Passive House.

According to Professor Dr. Wolfgang Feist, Director of the Passive House Institute, in Darmstadt, “the Passive House is an energy standard which is available worldwide – the same laws of physics apply everywhere".

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