Heat pumps

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…

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…

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…

Lessons from a Heat Pump Retrofit at CityHousing Hamilton

5/2022 - May 2022. Government of Ontario. TAF collaborated with CityHousing Hamilton to plan and implement a pilot project at a three-storey…

Lessons from a heat pump retrofit at Walpole Ave: A case study

1/2021 - January 2021. City of Toronto. To demonstrate the viability of retrofits focused on electric heat pumps, TAF installed and monitored…

The Case for Deep Retrofits

9/2020 - September 2020. This report reviews the business case and financing options for deep retrofits in the multi-unit residential building sector,…

Retrofitting Hospital Workers Co-operative: A TowerWise Case Study

3/2020 - March 2020. From 2014-2018, retrofits were undertaken at Hospital Workers Co-operative to improve the energy efficiency of the building. This…

Retrofitting Perth Avenue Housing Co-operative: A TowerWise Case Study

3/2020 - March 2020. In 2014, TAF worked with Perth Housing Co-operative to undertake energy efficiency retrofits in their eight-story building. This…

Retrofitting Trethewey Tedder Apartments: A TowerWise Case Study

11/2019 - November 2019. From 2015-2018, TAF partnered with Toronto Community Housing to undertake energy efficiency retrofits in seven buildings on three…

Retrofitting Arleta Manor: a TowerWise Case Study

9/2019 - September 2019. From 2015-2018, TAF partnered with Toronto Community Housing to undertake retrofits in seven buildings on three sites. This…