G ETTING THE MOST OUT OF YOUR RETROFITS - A resource for implementing deep retrofits

mailto:info%40recoverinitiative.ca?subject= mailto:www.questcanada.org?subject= ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors would like to thank the project’s advisors and interviewees for their contributions to this report, and Natural Resources Canada, The Atmospheric Fund, and the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources and Renewable. [...] Liam Cook The first is understanding the key priorities or goals for the municipality and the specific building to categorise and drive the changes needed. [...] Employing integrated design into deep retrofits provides the opportunity to consider the remaining life of a building, how to extend Additional industrial and system processes must be considered that life, and how to increase resiliency in the face of worsening weather events all within the design of the retrofit. [...] The priority should very cut and dry financial payback and looking at overall benefit to the be determining how they can speed the procurement process up and community, to the building, and in more avenues than utility cost savings” reduce the time and effort it takes to bring on different vendors at each (Amanda Christianson). [...] Beyond the need to think more holistically from a municipal perspective Within this theme, one of the foundational recommendations is to create the literature on deep energy retrofits points towards the need to linkages between municipal departments and staff.