North American Passive House Network Board President
Ms. Barry is a registered architect based in San Francisco, CA. She was educated in South Africa, the UK and the USA and holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Natal-KwaZulu. She attended courses in Architecture at UC Berkeley before apprenticing at various architecture practices throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. She organized and directed California’s first all-women construction crew for Habitat for Humanity before founding both Passive House California (PHCA) and the North American Passive House Network (NAPHN), where she currently serves as Board President.
Ms. Barry’s advocacy work extends internationally. She was an active contributor to the UNECE’s Coalition on Buildings, working to develop a global standard for high performance buildings. Locally, she has focused on direct implementation by designing and building Passive House buildings since 2008, working in collaboration with One Sky Homes and through her own architecture firm, PassiveHouse BB. Ms. Barry has contributed as a subject matter expert on a number of research projects in collaboration with researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs (LBNL.) Most recently she worked with California’s Codes and Standards team on exploring a Multifamily Passive House Reach Code for California. She directed NAPHN’s policy support programing and edited the NAPHN Policy Resource Guide published in 2019 at NAPHN19 has was most recently named a Senior Policy Fellow by the New Buildings Institute (NBI).
