Steven Rhodes, local designer and construction consultant, is proud to announce that the Clintonville Passive House project is the first in central Ohio to received Phius ZERO Certification.

Clintonville Passive House is a single-family home designed and self-built by Steven Rhodes at an infill location in Clintonville. This is the first single-family certified passive house in central Ohio. The house is all electric and is projected to use less than half the energy of a similarly sized, newly code-built home. A rooftop solar array adds net zero energy performance to the comfort, indoor air quality, and durability inherent in a passive house. 

Phius Certified Projects have had their designs and energy models approved by the Phius Certification Staff, and have been inspected on-site by certified third-party quality assurance professionals trained by Phius to work on Phius projects. The rigorous Phius certification process ensures the building is designed and built to perform up to the targets determined by the climate-specific, cost-optimized Phius Standard.

As a Phius Certified Project, Clintonville Passive House is listed in the Phius Certified Projects Database – the most comprehensive database of passive projects in North America (phius.org/certified-project-database).

“Achieving Phius Certification for a project is an accomplishment worth celebrating as it is representative of the hard work of the project team and shows that this project will be among the most efficient and comfortable buildings in the world,” James Ortega, Phius Project Certification Manager. Phius has certified more than 7.4 million square feet of projects in more than 42 states and provinces.

Steven is currently working on his next passive house project in Olde Towne East in collaboration with local designer Jeremy Miller and owner Blake Compton of Compton Construction.

For more on the Clintonville Passive House design and construction process, visit www.clintonvillepassivehouse.com.

About Phius:

Phius (Passive House Institute United States) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting comfortable living for all and the well-being of the planet. This means driving down carbon emissions and working toward a net zero future. Phius works toward this goal by training and certifying professionals, maintaining the Phius climate-specific passive building standard, certifying and quality assuring passive buildings, certifying high-performance building products, and conducting research to advance high-performance building.