Deep Retrofits - Carbon Reduction and Resilience Strategies for Future-Ready Housing

The future of green buildings is achieved through existing building retrofits. The confluence of deferred capital, energy & water reporting, resiliency requirements, and institutional climate mitigation objectives means that existing buildings are excellent candidates for deep retrofits that significantly reduce carbon emissions, address safety and performance issues, mitigate overheating, improve comfort, and increase resident satisfaction. This session will focus on strategies for assessing existing buildings for their retrofit potential, aligning deferred capital with opportunistic upgrades, and implementing complex decarbonization projects on occupied multi unit residential buildings. The session will leverage experience from several deep retrofit projects progressing through the study, design, and implementation stages. We will use project references to explore topics such as portfolio planning, decarbonized capital planning, electrical service constraints, managing tenant expectations, enclosure and HVAC decarbonization options, embodied carbon, and the phasing of complex enclosure and HVAC projects.

Speaker

Scott Armstrong
WSP
Scott is passionate about building design and construction, ongoing performance, deterioration and failure, and their renewal. His 20+ years’ experience spans commercial, institutional, health care, heritage, recreational, residential, and neighbourhood development in Canada, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Scott has broad expertise in high performance buildings, deep retrofits and decarbonization, building enclosure and façades, existing building repair and renewal, roofing and green roofs, and integrated design. Scott is also a LEED Accredited Professional, Building Science Specialist (BSS), and Certified Engineering Technologist (CET).

Length: 01:15:10

Last Updated: January 22, 2025