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Climate Smart, Future Ready
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 emissionsthan 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, andensuring safe and comfortable homes for everyone, we need to increase the rate of building retrofitsacross 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 asbuilding 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, improveour 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. Itspurpose 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)
Stay Informed & Share Your Experiences
We want to hear from you about your experiences and hopes for building retrofits in our community.
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 emissionsthan 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, andensuring safe and comfortable homes for everyone, we need to increase the rate of building retrofitsacross 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 asbuilding 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, improveour 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. Itspurpose 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)
Stay Informed & Share Your Experiences
We want to hear from you about your experiences and hopes for building retrofits in our community.
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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Page last updated: 21 Aug 2024, 05:17 PM
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Spring 2024
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Community Survey
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Fall 2024
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