Ottawa Community Housing - Deep Retrofit Process

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A significant number of buildings that will be standing in the coming decades have already been built. What approach is needed to make those buildings sustainable and energy efficient?

• Building Name: Presland Net-Zero PEER
• Building Location: Ottawa, Ontario
• Year Built: 1960
• Key Sustainable Feature: Net Zero Energy and Net-Zero GHG
• Building Use: Residential

What are some of the barriers that this project needed to overcome? Was any special training required to complete? What are the next steps for Ottawa Community Housing?

Join to get up close in the construction of a deep energy retrofit and to get your questions answered about the process.

TOUR GUIDES - Dan Dicaire - Ottawa Community Housing and Mark Carver - CanmetENERGY

Mark Carver is an R&D Project Lead at CanmetENERGY, Natural Resources Canada and a member of the building envelope team. He is the project manager for NRCan’s Preabricated Exterior Energy Retrofit and High-R, Thin Walls projects. His interests are in off-site construction and prefabrication for high-performance buildings, 3D scanning, imaging and advanced manufacturing, advanced insulation materials, climate resilient, and low-carbon buildings. Mark has presented at conferences across North America on topics related to energy efficiency in housing.

Dan Dicaire has an undergraduate and a Master's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Ottawa. He is a P. Eng and a Certified Energy Manager. He currently works for Ottawa Community Housing (OCH) as the Manager of Energy and Sustainability. Over the past 10 years, he has coordinated the installation of 500 kW of solar arrays on 36 different OCH sites and managed a portfolio wide LED Lighting Retrofit which will save over 4.6 MWh of electricity annually. He is currently part of OCH’s development team which is building Canada’s largest Passive House building at 811 Gladstone as well as another 1000 units worth of passive house mid and high rises.

Members get 50% off. Free for Student Members

Once again this year the sustainable building tour will be virtual. Happily, this gives us the opportunity to tour buildings outside Winnipeg, Manitoba and even Canada every Thursday in October.

Get your ticket for all 4 tours for a discount - 4 for the price of 2

Since members get 50% off you get 4 for the price of 1.

Other tours:

OCTOBER 7th - 12 NOON

Northlands – Biofuel for District Heating in Northern Communities with Bruce Duggan - Boke Consulting

• Building Name: Biomass / District Heating Plant & Harvesting Operation
• Building Location: Northlands Dënesųłiné First Nation
• Year Built: 2019
• Key Sustainable Feature: Biofuel district heating system using local wood
• Building Use: heating plant

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OCTOBER 14th - 12 NOON

Clearwater Manitoba - Reclaiming Materials and Community with Robert Guilford - Harvest Moon Society & Lancelot Coar - University of Manitoba

• Building Name: Clearwater Cabins and more
• Building Location: Clearwater, Manitoba
• Year Built: 2014
• Key Sustainable Feature: Recycled Materials, Community participation
• Building Use: Visitor accommodations, restaurant, multipurpose

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OCTOBER 28th - 12 NOON

MSR Design Studio Tour - Living Building Challenge & Building Materials with Traci Lesneski, Rhys MacPherson & Simona Fischer - MSR Design

• Building Name: 510 Marquette-MSR Design Studio
• Building Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Year Built: 2019
• Key Sustainable Feature: LBC Petal Certification: Materials, Beauty and Equity
• Building Use: Workplace

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Get your ticket for all 4 tours for a discount - 4 for the price of 2members still get 50% off.

Memberships get 50% off and free for students.

Thanks to event sponsor Duxton Windows for helping to make these tours happen.