Hillside Consulting, LLC
for your Passive House project
What We Do
As a Certified Passive House Consultants and architects, Hillside Consulting will help you design, model and certify your Passive House project. Discover more about Passive House with Phius.
Architectural Design
We'll start at the beginning! Early decisions have a big impact on performance, incorporating the Passive House principles during design development will set you up for success.
Energy Modeling
Next, energy modeling optimizes the energy performance, comfort and durability of your project while ensuring the building envelope and systems meet Passive House standards.
Phius Certification
Finally, Phius Certification ensures that your project has met all the documentation and performance testing standards for Passive House. We'll guide your project through that process and across the finish line!
Christine Liaukus
Founder, Principal
RA, CPHC
As an architect and the first Certified Passive House Consultant in NJ, I design cost effective strategies to get you to Passive House - the best standard for high performance, comfortable, beautiful buildings.
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My work has always spanned the worlds of architectural design and building science, as a research architect at NJIT and a project architect at several firms over the years. Hillside Consulting marries those areas of expertise.
Joe Bruey
Principal
RA
As a highly experienced architect with residential and commercial buildings, I work with scale, proportion, light, views and energy efficiency to create beautiful spaces that work for you.
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As a Vice President at Credit Suisse in Corporate Real Estate and Services, I managed three global teams overseeing and designing 8.5 million square feet of office space in 126 cities in the Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific regions. Following this phase of my career, I returned to high performance residential design in various capacities culminating in my role as Principal at Hillside Consulting.