OBEC Dinner Meeting, January 2025 – Deep retrofits: carbon reduction and resilience strategies for future-ready housing

January 15, 2025
SpringHill Suites by Marriott Toronto/Vaughan
612 Applewood Crescent, Vaughan ON L4K 4B4 Show map

The Ontario Building Envelope Council is hosting a dinner meeting on January 15, 2025, addressing the topic “Deep retrofits: carbon reduction and resilience strategies for future-ready housing”.

This dinner 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 presentation will leverage experience from several deep retrofit projects, progressing through the study, design, and implementation stages. It 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.

The speaker is WSP’s Scott Armstrong, who possesses years of 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.

AGENDA
5 pm – Technical discussion group
6 pm – Reception/Registration
7 pm – Dinner
8 pm – Guest speaker presentation

The evening will also include a presentation of the Anthony A. Woods (Beckie) Award to Paul Pushman. This award is bestowed biannually to individuals who have made a significant contribution to the design, construction, and performance of the building envelope.