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Michael Franco, Phius operations manager and head of the Phius Product Certification Program, discusses an important milestone for the program.

A look at the new Phius certified window database

Phius Product Certification Manager Michael Franco details the advantages of the revamped Phius Product Database.

Phius Product Certification Manager Michael Franco breaks down the forthcoming update to the Phius Window Certification Program (Part 1 of 2).

This webinar covers how to get a prefabricated panel system certified if you’re a manufacturer, or what Phius certificates can do for you as a practitioner.

This article addresses four windows-related questions which the Phius Certification staff and Technical Committee have encountered since the advent of the PHIUS+ 2015 Passive Building Standard – North America, in March 2015. These concern the requirements and recommendations for window performance in building projects seeking certification, whether a mechanical cooling system should ever be required, and whether, for large buildings whose space conditioning needs are “internal-gain dominated” as opposed to “shell-dominated”, the lower R-values required to meet the overall building performance criteria have an impact on the resilience or passive survivability.