14 Ways You Can Get Involved
Stronger buildings, healthier people and a better future for everyone.
There are many ways to get involved with the Passivhaus Standard in Australia. Browse below and pick from the 14 ways to contribute and help support a better built environment.
Have something else in mind? Reach out to admin@passivhausassociation.au to share your idea.
Learn &
Connect
Connect with Australia’s Passivhaus community, grow your network, learn from others and take part in opportunities to build knowledge and lasting relationships.
Share &
Showcase
Share your projects, knowledge and experience with the wider community through mentoring, presentations, project data and practical insights that help others.
Inspire &
Influence
Help grow the Passivhaus movement by bringing people together, sharing ideas, referring others and supporting stronger industry engagement and participation.
Lead &
Celebrate
Recognise progress, celebrate achievements and help shape what comes next by sharing milestones, nominating leaders and contributing fresh ideas and perspectives.
Learn & Connect
Join the community
Connect with designers, builders, manufacturers and suppliers already working in Passivhaus across Australia. Through the member directory, forums, chapter meetups and events, you can meet people facing similar challenges, exchange ideas and become part of a growing national community.
Find your network →
Deliver a Passivhaus 101 session
Introduce Passivhaus to a local council, TAFE, workplace or industry group using APA’s presentation resources and talking points. Bring your own experience to the session and help make the principles of better building performance more accessible to a new audience.
Get the 101 kit →
Join a working committee
Contribute your skills and perspective to the committees helping shape APA’s technical, policy and advocacy work. Members collaborate on priorities such as Quality Mark criteria, government submissions and industry positions, giving you a practical way to influence how Passivhaus develops in Australia.
See open committee seats →
Host a site tour
Open a completed or in-progress Passivhaus project to members, clients or the public and let people experience high-performance building first-hand. APA can support the booking and promotion, while you provide the project knowledge and practical insight that make the tour valuable.
Run a site tour →
Share & Showcase
Add your project to the registry
List a completed or in-progress project in APA’s national project registry and help build a stronger picture of Passivhaus delivery across Australia. Your project can become a useful reference for prospective clients, researchers, media and others looking for real-world examples.
Submit to the registry →
Mentor a CPHT / CPHD candidate
Support someone working towards their Certified Passivhaus Tradesperson or Designer qualification by sharing practical experience from the site or drawing board. Mentoring helps candidates turn course knowledge into real-world understanding while strengthening the next generation of Passivhaus professionals.
Become a mentor →
Share project performance data
Contribute post-occupancy energy use, airtightness results, comfort feedback or other measured outcomes from your project. Sharing real performance data strengthens APA’s evidence base and helps demonstrate where Passivhaus delivers measurable benefits beyond design intent alone.
Submit project data →
Present at a chapter meeting
Bring a project, lesson learned, technical question or current challenge to APA’s monthly members’ catch-up. These informal online sessions are an opportunity to share what you know, hear how others have approached similar problems and start useful conversations across the community.
Put your hand up for a slot →
Inspire & Influence
Host an APA Industry Insights event
Bring your local industry together by hosting an APA Industry Insights event at your office, project site or another suitable venue. APA provides the event format and promotion, while you create the setting for useful discussion, knowledge sharing and new industry connections.
Host an event →
Become a sponsor or industry partner
Support APA’s events, education, research, advocacy or awards through a strategic industry partnership. Sponsorship gives businesses and suppliers a practical way to contribute to the growth of Passivhaus while connecting their organisation with an increasingly active high-performance building community.
Discuss a partnership →
Refer a new member
Know a colleague, builder, client or industry contact who should be part of the Passivhaus community? Make an introduction and help APA connect with people who can contribute their knowledge, experience and influence to the continued growth of the movement.
Refer someone →
Lead & Celebrate
Celebrate a milestone
Tell APA when your team starts a new project, achieves certification or reaches another significant Passivhaus milestone. Sharing these achievements through APA’s newsletter, social channels and wider network helps recognise the people doing the work and shows the momentum building across Australia.
Share your milestone →
Pitch a session or an article
Share a project, lesson learned, technical insight or policy perspective with the wider Passivhaus community. Pitch a session for THRIVE, RetroPHIT Month or an Industry Insights event, or contribute an article that gives others practical ideas and real-world experience to learn from.
Submit a pitch →
Nominate a leader for the Incubator
Put forward a client-side or industry leader who has the potential to accelerate Passivhaus adoption in their organisation or region. APA’s Built Environment Leadership Incubator helps influential decision-makers build the knowledge, confidence and connections needed to create meaningful change.
Nominate a leader →