Building Retrofit Strategy

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Climate Smart, Future Ready

PROJECT UPDATE:

Thank you to everyone who provided their input in late 2024! The City is working to integrate your feedback and refine the Building Retrofit Strategy. We will provide an update when the strategy is ready to share.

To help our homes and buildings be climate-ready, the City of Colwood is developing a Building Retrofit Strategy.

We spend most of our time inside buildings – at home, work, school, running errands and spending time with friends and family. Many of these buildings produce more energy and create more greenhouse gas emissions than they need to, which contributes to climate change and increases energy bills. Many of these same buildings are also at risk of the impacts of climate change, including extreme heat, wildfires and wildfire smoke, and flooding.

To achieve Colwood’s climate goals of reducing community-wide emissions, building our climate resilience, and ensuring safe and comfortable homes for everyone, we need to increase the rate of building retrofits across the city. This means improving and updating our homes and buildings to become more energy-efficient and climate-friendly.

What are building retrofits?

Building retrofits are activities that help reduce how much energy a building uses and carbon it produces, while increasing its resilience to the impacts of climate change. This includes updating mechanical systems like space and water heating systems, as well as building envelope improvements (such as adding insulation, upgrading windows and doors, and air sealing).

How are building retrofits beneficial?

Aside from reducing emissions, building retrofits can help reduce energy bills, improve our comfort, safeguard our health, and generally improve access to high quality homes and buildings.

What is the Building Retrofit Strategy?

To support the adoption of building retrofits, the City of Colwood is developing a Building Retrofit Strategy. Its purpose is to increase building retrofits in Colwood to help meet targets in reducing emissions while increasing energy efficiency and improving climate resilience (being able to handle and recover from the effects of climate change). The City hopes to speed up this change in a way that benefits as many Colwood residents as possible.

What types of buildings will the strategy look at? The strategy will explore retrofit opportunities for:

  • Residential (for example, houses, apartments)
  • Commercial (for example, office buildings, retail stores)
  • Industrial (for example, buildings for warehousing, manufacturing)

Climate Smart, Future Ready

PROJECT UPDATE:

Thank you to everyone who provided their input in late 2024! The City is working to integrate your feedback and refine the Building Retrofit Strategy. We will provide an update when the strategy is ready to share.

To help our homes and buildings be climate-ready, the City of Colwood is developing a Building Retrofit Strategy.

We spend most of our time inside buildings – at home, work, school, running errands and spending time with friends and family. Many of these buildings produce more energy and create more greenhouse gas emissions than they need to, which contributes to climate change and increases energy bills. Many of these same buildings are also at risk of the impacts of climate change, including extreme heat, wildfires and wildfire smoke, and flooding.

To achieve Colwood’s climate goals of reducing community-wide emissions, building our climate resilience, and ensuring safe and comfortable homes for everyone, we need to increase the rate of building retrofits across the city. This means improving and updating our homes and buildings to become more energy-efficient and climate-friendly.

What are building retrofits?

Building retrofits are activities that help reduce how much energy a building uses and carbon it produces, while increasing its resilience to the impacts of climate change. This includes updating mechanical systems like space and water heating systems, as well as building envelope improvements (such as adding insulation, upgrading windows and doors, and air sealing).

How are building retrofits beneficial?

Aside from reducing emissions, building retrofits can help reduce energy bills, improve our comfort, safeguard our health, and generally improve access to high quality homes and buildings.

What is the Building Retrofit Strategy?

To support the adoption of building retrofits, the City of Colwood is developing a Building Retrofit Strategy. Its purpose is to increase building retrofits in Colwood to help meet targets in reducing emissions while increasing energy efficiency and improving climate resilience (being able to handle and recover from the effects of climate change). The City hopes to speed up this change in a way that benefits as many Colwood residents as possible.

What types of buildings will the strategy look at? The strategy will explore retrofit opportunities for:

  • Residential (for example, houses, apartments)
  • Commercial (for example, office buildings, retail stores)
  • Industrial (for example, buildings for warehousing, manufacturing)
  • CLOSED: This survey has concluded. Thank you for helping the City of Colwood create a Building Retrofit Strategy to support residents to achieve their retrofit goals.

    Understanding Building Retrofit Barriers and Opportunities

    This survey is for occupants/owners of residential or commercial buildings who live or work in the City of Colwood.  

    What are building retrofits? Building retrofits are activities that help reduce how much energy a building uses and carbongreenhouse gas emissions it produces, while increasing its resilience to the impacts of climate change. This includes updating mechanical systems like space and water heating systems, as well as building envelope improvements (such as adding insulation, upgrading windows and doors, and air sealing). 

    How are building retrofits beneficial? Aside from reducing carbon greenhouse gas emissions, building retrofits can help reduce energy bills, improve our comfort, safeguard our health, and generally improve access to high quality homes and buildings. 

    What is the Building Retrofit Strategy? To support the adoption of building retrofits, the City of Colwood is developing a Building Retrofit Strategy. Its purpose is to increase building retrofits in Colwood to help meet targets in reducing carbon greenhouse gas emissions while increasing energy efficiency and improving climate resilience (being able to handle and recover from the effects of climate change). The City hopes to speed up this change in a way that benefits as many Colwood residents as possible. 

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    Retrofit Goals, Priorities & Strategies


    Introduction


    The City of Colwood is developing a Building Retrofit Strategy to encourage home and building energy retrofits.  

    • What do we mean by building retrofits? Building retrofits reduce a building’s energy use and greenhouse gas emissions while enhancing its climate resilience. This includes shifting mechanical systems for space and hot water heating from gas to electric, and improving the building envelope (e.g., adding insulation, upgrading windows and doors, air sealing).  

    • How are building retrofits beneficial? Retrofitting can reduce GHG emissions that contribute to climate change, lower energy costs, improve comfort and health, help buildings handle extreme weather better, and increase the quality and value of buildings.  

    • I already filled out a survey in the summer. How is this different? In July, we sent a survey about barriers and opportunities to retrofits. Now, we are presenting a draft set of goals, priorities and strategies and hope for your feedback. 

    • How will my input be used? By completing this survey, you can help shape how the City will take action to support retrofit adoption for residents and businesses in the community.  

    • Who is the survey for? This survey is for residents (homeowners and renters), building or business owners, and property managers of buildings in the City of Colwood. 

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