Why should Canada launch a climate retrofit mission?

  • We need to transform our approach to building retrofits to meet climate change goals
  • We can trigger economies of scale and learning in building retrofits to reduce costs, increase speed, and enhance value

What innovations could scale-up building retrofits?

Promising solutions include:

  1. Integrated design and project delivery
  2. Pre-fabrication of building components
  3. Mass customization to deal with building specific challenges
  4. Aggregating similar buildings into large-scale
    projects
  5. Application of digital technologies
  6. Enhance the user experience

New innovations combined into new retrofit delivery models should aim to:

  1. Reduce costs, by at least 50%
  2. Increase speed, to take days instead of months
  3. Enhance value for users and
    society