In the above PHIUS video titled, "Air Sealing and Building Science and High Perfromance Envelope Materials", there is mention of an architect, Greg La Vardera, who studied Swedish high-performance housing construction, and has adapted the Swedish techniques to US materials.
...a bit of searching turned up several interesting videos by the above mentioned architect:
MODIFIED SWEDISH FRAMING SYSTEM
Interesting stuff... makes standard construction seem a bit medieval.
-AC_Hacker