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Join Retrofit Canada’s Board of Directors
**Update: We are no longer accepting applications** Retrofit Canada is looking for a governance, financial, or policy/regulatory professional to join our volunteer Board of Directors. This role offers a chance to help a national deep-retrofit non-profit share solutions, eliminate barriers, and accelerate deep retrofits in Canada. Familiarity with deep retrofits or energy efficiency is an…
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Completed a deep retrofit? Submit your project to us
Retrofit Canada is on a mission to gather deep retrofit case studies from across the country. We want to make it easier for Canadians to retrofit their homes and buildings with practical, cost-effective upgrades that cut emissions and improve comfort, durability, and efficiency. Deep Retrofits, sometimes called deep energy retrofits, are often complex and costly.…
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Retrofit Canada’s Case Study Library Just Got Better
Since 2019, Retrofit Canada has been building a case study library to support deep retrofit professionals with real-world examples, technical insights, and lessons learned from completed projects. Over the past five years, our library has grown to include over 25 residential deep retrofit case studies. Now, with support from NRCan’s Greener Neighbourhoods Pilot Program, and in collaboration with…
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Retrofit Canada to Build National Library of Deep Retrofits with $775K Contribution
Retrofit Canada, a leader in deep retrofits, has secured a significant $775,897 contribution from Natural Resources Canada (NRCAN)’s Greener Neighbourhoods Pilot Program (GNPP). Retrofit Canada will use this contribution to create the Retrofit Repository, a comprehensive national library of deep retrofit case studies. This investment will be instrumental in accelerating the building sector’s capacity to conduct deep…
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New Case Studies! ReCover Initiative explores panelization for municipal buildings
The six newest case studies in our library come courtesy of the ReCover Initiative (ReCover), a Nova Scotia-based non-profit focused on revolutionizing Canada’s buildings to combat climate change. ReCover recently explored the feasibility of using panelized deep retrofits on six different municipal buildings. Retrofit Canada is helping them share their findings by hosting these in our…
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Retrofit Canada in the News: Brookside Retrofit
Jasmine King of Global Edmonton dropped by the Brookside Retrofit to learn how Butterwick Projects used an EnergieSprong-inspired panelized retrofit to make this home 70 to 80 per cent more efficient. During the interview, homeowners Melanie and Sean Hoffman shared their experience with the retrofit, while Jesse Tufts, who helped manage the project, highlighted Edmonton as a…
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Deep Retrofits: Understanding the costs
How much does a deep retrofit that makes a home net-zero ready cost? That’s the number one question we get from consumers. So what’s the answer? If you want to make an old house net-zero with a one-shot, all-in deep retrofit, you could be looking at costs of $100,000 to $200,000, but it depends on a…
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Tour three Retrofit Canada deep retrofits on June 3 and 4, 2023
Are you a homeowner interested in making your home net-zero ready? Want to learn how to reduce your utility bills to zero? Curious about heat pumps and whether they actually work in a cold climate? Need some inspiration and encouragement when it comes to climate action and personal choices that can make a difference? Well,…
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“Guess what, honey! No more utility bills for the rest of our lives”
Last year, Jim Sandercock and Melanie Harmsma’s house got a panelized deep retrofit. Learn what they have to say about living in the home after the retrofit. But first, a panelized deep whatzit? The Sandercock-Harmsma panelized deep retrofit was inspired by a Netherlands approach to deep retrofits known as EnergieSprong. The builder who did the…
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Retrofit Canada in the News: Green Energy Futures
Friend of Retrofit Canada, and perennial champion of all things energy efficient, net-zero, solar powered and built green, David Dodge of Green Energy Futures interviewed Jim Sandercock about the retrofit of his family’s 1951 home. This project is the first EnergieSprong-inspired deep retrofit of a single-family home in North America, and one of three our partner, Butterwick Projects,…