Ms. Doherty, conducts Passive House feasibility studies for new clients and conducts energy modeling and 3D building modeling for a range of building types pursuing Passive House certification. She provides support for clients throughout their design and construction phases while completing documentation submission for final certification. Ms. Doherty’s experience
at SWA, with a wide range of project types including historical retrofits, multifamily, and commercial use buildings, allows her to be most effective in supporting the team.

Mr. Ingui Architecture is a collaborative architectural design firm with extensive experience in residential, institutional, and commercial projects. He and the firm have received various design awards and have been included in numerous publications including Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and most recently CNN. Ingui Architecture is a leader in the Passive House movement and almost all the firm’s architects are Certified Passive House Designers. The firm’s involvement in the early stages of the US Passive House movement has allowed for a clear vision of both the hurdles and the resulting opportunities associated with this emerging market. Mr. Ingui and the team at Ingui Architecture believe in openly sharing what they have learned to accelerate the growth of better building. As part of this effort, they have opened their homes during construction to student groups, other architects, tradespeople, homeowners, and developers. He has expanded this level of sharing by speaking at many national and international conferences, including Passive House Institute’s 25th anniversary of Passive House in Darmstadt, Germany and most recently in China. One of the benefits of being a part of so many conferences is meeting incredible people who truly have solutions that are essential to the survival of our planet. In June of 2019, Passive House Accelerator was launched. Passive House Accelerator was created to make it easier to learn about Passive House; to support the community by allowing them to share ideas and solutions; to continue and expand on the incredible conversations and sessions at conferences; and to allow those who are succeeding in creating beautiful projects and/ or solutions to share their knowledge.

Ms. Meskens has seven years of experience in Passive House design. She studied architecture and sustainable design at ULB in Brussels. There, she worked on Passive House buildings from small, residential projects to large-scale, urban planning throughout Europe. In 2018, she moved to New York City, where she has spearheaded sustainable projects throughout the U.S. and Canada while giving lectures and training professional networks.

Mr. Moreno-Vacca leads A2M’s vision, design aesthetic and drives to be the most sustainable and energy efficient architecture possible. Since starting the architecture firm A2M in 2000, he has led it to international recognition through his sustainable building knowledge and his numerous roles as president of the Board of the Belgian Passive House Association. Since 2006, Mr. Moreno-Vacca has also been teaching at ULB architecture university. In 2009, he co-founded and edited the magazine ‘be.passive’. Mr. Moreno-Vacca has been giving lectures regularly for several professional networks (architects, engineers and builders) for more than 20 years. He has also been giving an extensive set of presentations, conferences and trainings all over the world. A2M now has offices in Brussels and Lisbon, and a sister company, M2A, in the United States.

Mr. Peel’s primary areas of expertise are in low carbon buildings and renewable energy. His professional and academic experience ranges from consultancy, and program management to authoring technical and non-technical articles, course and lecture delivery, and technical research. Mr. Peel provides Passive House and sustainability consultancy, certification, and training services to the building sector. Prior to forging out on his own, He worked in a variety of capacities in Europe. These included managing the UK Government’s innovative carbon saving technologies scheme and the Energy Saving Trust’s Best Practice Helpline. Mr. Peel also managed and delivered Passive House, Code for Sustainable Homes, wind turbine development, and thermal modelling projects as well as organizing Passive House study tours. Further activities included contributing to the development of the UK Government’s housing energy calculation methodology (SAP) and the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP).​ His previous career was as an electrical engineer.  The leap into sustainability came with the completion of a M.S.c. degree in Renewable Energy. While writing his Master’s thesis, Mr. Peel worked at the Passivhaus Institut in Germany, where the foundations of his Passive House and energy efficiency expertise were laid. He is one of only a handful of Canadian-based Passive House certifiers accredited by the German Passivhaus Institut.

Ms. Torres Moskovitz is an architect and Director of Sustainability and a Senior Associate at WXY architecture + urban design, a 50-person firm based in Lower Manhattan. She leads projects in environmental health and is overseeing 20 Wellness rooms for New York City Health & Hospitals across 20 public hospitals for the Workforce for a program called Helping Healers Heal. Ms. Torres Moskovitz is project director for several New York State Park projects and a NYPA Canal Project in Lockport, a study for upgrading existing NYCHA community centers as Resiliency Hubs – the first of its kind in NYC. In her role as Director of Sustainability, she works to prioritize people and the public realm while also designing for resiliency, optimum energy-efficiency, and zero-carbon ready buildings.

Prior to WXY, she was principal and founder of Fete Nature Architecture, PLLC and designed the Tighthouse, the first certified passive house in NYC (PHI 2012) which was a retrofit of an 1899 rowhouse. She is author of Princeton Architectural Press’ The Greenest Home, which features 18 Passive House case studies. After the Tighthouse project, she continued to retrofit over 15 passive house strategy projects and several new passive house residences.
Ms. Torres Moskovitz teaches as a visiting professor at several universities (Syracuse University, Pratt Institute, Parsons, RISD, and NYU) class that range from design and planning for developers, Eco-Urban seminar, to core classes in Building Environment and design studios. She has co-taught several trainings for architects and engineers at the AIA Center for Architecture including trainings for green building initiatives under Local Law 31 and Local Law 97 compliance. She is currently training in Regenerative Design.