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Toronto wants to help buildings go deep with retrofit program


Retrofit Reset: Prioritize Low-Income Households

The Canada Green Buildings Strategy, a federal initiative primarily aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions, offers an opportunity for a ...

Deep Green Retrofits: Updating Old Buildings to New Sustainability ...

“We need to spend a lot more time early on assessing the data,” said Weatherhead. “We need to assess whether it is practical to retrofit and how ...

The Toronto Atmospheric Fund: Helping the GTHA Reach Net Zero ...

For our city, the retrofit is expected to save over $5 million in utility costs for TCHC over 20 years. The project will also create local ...

Application of Deep Energy Retrofits to Allow Existing Housing in ...

BEopt (Building Energy Optimizer) was used to develop various deep energy retrofits for Century detached, Century-semi, and Wartime archetype ...

Feeling the Heat: The Future of Buildings | Toronto Region Board of ...

Buildings account for 55% of Toronto's emissions today, more than any other sector. Decarbonizing these buildings is key to a clean energy economy.

The Revolution Will Be Retrofitted: The future of energy efficiency in ...

Tell us what a typical retrofitting project in Canada might look like. To reach our climate goals, we need to move toward deeper energy ...

Government of Canada's New Canada Green Buildings Strategy

The Canada Greener Homes Grants program was launched by the federal government in 2021, to support Canadians to retrofit their homes to increase ...

Better Buildings Ottawa

A study by Toronto-based non-profit The Atmospheric Fund (TAF) Opens in a new tab or window(link is external) also found that energy-efficient buildings have ...

Reaching Net-Zero in Existing Buildings - Efficiency Canada

Canada is working on its first retrofit code, the Alterations to Existing Buildings code (AEB). It's expected to be released in 2024 and adopted by provinces ...

Why cleaning up Canada's building industry could be a big win for ...

The 2024 federal budget earmarked over $900 million to roll out the Canada Green Buildings Strategy, the bulk of it going to support energy- ...

Retrofit Resources

The Home Retrofit Forum is a peer support group on Facebook for Toronto homeowners who want to retrofit their homes to increase their energy efficiency, reduce ...

Better Buildings: A Guide to Financing Housing Retrofits for Ontario ...

Then there are deep retrofits that involve an extensive overhaul of the entire building, which may include replacing the roof or swapping out older heating, ...

Case study: Energy retrofit delivers multiple benefits

During a multi-year project, the partners retrofitted seven social housing buildings, aiming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 per cent and utility costs ...

Building Back Better: A roadmap to the Canada we want

These investments are of the same order of magnitude as those being made in Canada today. Case in point: the deep retrofits to homes required to ...

Deep Retrofit Program Could Fix Every Canadian Building by 2035 ...

June 25, 2021: Taking on an audacious “national retrofit mission” would enable Canada to upgrade every building in the country by 2035, ...

Agents of change - CBC

In 2023, they are planning an outreach program to help other Toronto neighbourhoods achieve something comparable. The question is: can ...

Programs and Initiatives - HRAI

Demonstrate deep energy retrofits needed to move buildings towards ... The City's Energy Retrofit Loan program offers fixed, long term, low- ...

Retrofitting Buildings for GHG Reduction & Deeper Energy Savings

Ontario municipal governments support this shift and have requested that AMO provide a series of. Climate Change discussion papers to help ...

U of T Sustainability Office | Wondering what a deep energy retrofit is ...

⚡ In 2023, five buildings were selected for the first wave of @uoft 's deep energy retrofit program: 1. The Faculty of Dentistry 2. The ...

BACCC-Home-Retrofit-Policy-Analysis-for-Hamilton-and-Burlington ...

○ NYC offers financial and technical support to buildings for retrofitting ... Welcome to the City of Toronto's Home Energy Loan Program (HELP) (the "Program").