Our Work
We are establishing a deep retrofit methodology that can be implemented at scale, nationally.
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Our Approach
Our Approach
Homes and buildings are the source of 17% of Canada’s GHG emissions (1). This proportion is even higher in provinces such as Nova Scotia that are reliant on fossil fuels for electricity generation. Tens of millions of existing buildings need to be upgraded for the Government of Canada to meet its 2050 net-zero emissions target. This is in spite of stringent building and energy codes that are improving the performance of new buildings.
1 Environment and Climate Change Canada
ReCover aims to establish a deep retrofit methodology that is implementable at a national scale to rapidly and substantially reduce energy use and GHG emissions from existing buildings.
Our approach, based on the Dutch program Energiesprong (“energy leap”), is systematic and turnkey. It overcomes the slow, intrusive and expensive, and poor energy savings of conventional approaches to deep retrofit. One of the key features of our approach is the wrapping of a retrofitted building in a new prefabricated skin; replacing its mechanical systems with smaller, more efficient components; and adding renewables as needed.
We are striving to make deep retrofits a financial possibility and deliver significantly greater energy savings compared to conventional deep retrofit approaches.
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