Buildings

Prefabricated Overcladding Solutions for Deep Retrofits

11/2024 - November 2024. TAF commissioned WSP to review and evaluate prefabricated overcladding technologies across North America. This report summarizes these solutions’…

Low Carbon Considerations for Maximum Temperature Bylaws

8/2024 - August 2024. City of Toronto. Addressing extreme heat exposure has become a priority for cities in the Greater Toronto and…

How Cities Can Reward Green Development

8/2024 - August 2024. City of Toronto. Dozens of municipalities in Ontario have green development standards in place to reduce carbon emissions…

Home heating and hot water savings from midrise apartment retrofit

1/2024 - January 2024. City of Toronto. In April 2021, TAF joined project partners to retrofit a nine storey 1963 apartment building…

Building Performance Standards

10/2023 - October 2023. Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. Existing building performance standards (BPS) are a key policy tool used to improve…

Recommendations for Municipalities: Mandatory Building Performance Standards

9/2023 - September 2023. Government of Ontario. This report by the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA), commissioned by TAF, outlines the legal…

Housing Accelerator Fund – Ideas and Resources for Municipalities

6/2023 - Ideas and resources for municipalities to integrate low carbon strategies into affordable housing The Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) is a $4 billion…

Scaling Heat Pump Retrofits through Aggregation and Bulk Procurement

4/2023 - April 2023. Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. TAF commissioned Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors to conduct a bulk procurement study…

Heat Pumps Add Cooling for Toronto Community Housing Residents

4/2023 - April 2023. City of Toronto. In May of 2019, TAF joined project partners to retrofit a 1987 townhouse complex in…

Stepwise apartment retrofit for savings and comfort

3/2023 - March 2023. City of Mississauga. In August 2020, TAF’s Retrofit Accelerator team joined project partners to retrofit a 12-storey 1965…

2023 Federal Budget Recommendations

2/2023 - February 2023. Government of Canada. TAF submitted recommendations urging the federal government to investment in three key areas with potential…

Guide to Measurement and Verification of Heat Pump Retrofits

10/2022 - October 2022. Government of Ontario. Space heating represents the largest energy end use in Ontario multifamily buildings at 54.6% Heat…