Accelerating Building Retrofits in Calgary and Edmonton

ALBERTA ECOTRUST PILOT PROJECT IS ACCELERATING BUILDING RETROFITS IN CALGARY AND EDMONTON

In Calgary and Edmonton, the building stock accounts for 40 to 60 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. To achieve meaningful emissions reductions and address our current climate crisis, we need to reduce energy use in our building sector. 

Deep energy retrofits of our current building stock need to be done quickly and at scale. Traditional auditing processes can be time-consuming and expensive, making it difficult for building owners to retrofit their buildings.

To help identify energy efficiency improvements in commercial buildings faster, digitized approaches can be used to rapidly collect and present building information. 

That is why Alberta Ecotrust Foundation, with support from the RBC Foundation’s Tech for Nature, has partnered with software provider, Audette, to launch our Accelerating Retrofits in Commercial Buildings pilot project. This initiative provides building owners with a digital, simplified, low-carbon retrofit identification process. The large scale energy efficiency improvements identified will be aggregated to take advantage of alternative financing mechanisms, to catalyze investment. 

To participate in the pilot project, email our team at cif@albertaecotrust.com and review our Accelerating Retrofits in Commercial Buildings project summary to learn more.