Ireland has set ambitious targets, 500,000 homes retrofitted and 400,000 heat pumps installed by 2030.
But reaching these targets requires around 75,000 retrofits per year.
The real challenge isn’t the ambition, it’s delivery.
#RetrofitIreland #DeepRetrofit #BuildingPerformance #ClimateAction
Excited that the Sundance #deepenergyretrofit is showcased by @greenmunicipalfund.bsky.social:
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Sundance Housing co-op is the largest and first residential #panelized #deepretrofit in Canada: buff.ly/iNZR3cK
#retrofitcanada
#netzero
#greenbuilding
#solarpanels
#heatpumps
This family cut their home’s energy use by more than 60% by electrifying their #HVAC and water heating systems and adding renewable energy. Explore the case study, our first mechanical-only #deepretrofit in the library & read the homeowner’s advice on what to ask your HVAC suppliers: buff.ly/LRRvwIq
🏠✨ 1937 Charlottetown home → Net-Zero Ready!
Join us on September 11 (11 AM MT) for Prima, Non Ultima — a free webinar on a #deepretrofit case study.
✅ 60%+ energy savings
✅ 80%+ heating reduction
👉 Register now: buff.ly/5g13ErV
#PassiveHouse #NetZero
#deepenergyretrofits
Just wrapped another case study: a century-old Toronto semi-detached home sheds its gas dependence and drafts. Through a #deepretrofit, the home slashed its energy demand by over 70%.
Read the case study: buff.ly/XBHf4Dc
Another case study, pipin’ hot, straight outta the high-efficiency range (powered by renewables, of course). The #deepretrofit cut this 100-year-old brick home’s energy needs by 70% with a tried-and-true combo of envelope upgrades, mechanical electrification and a dollop of solar.
Energy InSites welcomes Samson Cree Nation - Accelerating Indigenous Community Energy Retrofits - with The LEAP Group and CIER logos over an arctic sunset background.
⭐️ Let’s welcome Samson Cree Nation to the Energy InSites program! ⭐️
💡📊 Learn more about how Indigenous communities across Canada are addressing their energy conservation and efficiency needs → yourcier.org/energy-insit...
#DeepRetrofit #EnergySavings #CommunityBenefits
Need help with a #deepretrofit? My consulting practice, affectingchange, helps building owners across Canada and in the United States get an energy-efficient, sustainable, healthy and climate-resilient building.
🧥 New "jacket" for a 1960s bungalow 🏠
This #deepretrofit cut energy use by over 69% by wrapping the home in a high-performance building envelope.
Now draft-free, more comfortable, and one heat pump away from #netzero.
Read the case study: 🔗 buff.ly/mBuA1jv
#retrofitcanada
#deepenergyretrofits
This phased #deepretrofit in Ontario started back in 2022. Now they've just passed the midway point - foundation, mechanical and attic are done, and the home is already using 60 per cent less energy. Check out the case study here and follow us for updates.
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#deepenergyretrofits
Energy InSites welcomes Tribal Chiefs Ventures Inc. to the program - Accelerating Indigenous community energy retrofits. Logos include the TCVI, The LEAP Group, and CIER.
⭐️Let’s welcome Tribal Chiefs Ventures Inc. to the Energy InSites program! ⭐️
💡📊Learn more about how Indigenous communities across Canada are addressing their energy conservation and efficiency needs → yourcier.org/energy-insit...
#DeepRetrofit #EnergySavings #CommunityBenefits
@godostoyke.bsky.social used a modified Larsen truss to limit thermal bridging and hold 8" of compressed cellulose in this advanced envelope system. The innovation was essential to this #deepretrofit that made a 1971 bi-level home #netzero.
Read the case study: buff.ly/lHKqFBj
It was bound to happen! We've finally made it to the West Coast with this case study. The Fernwood #deepretrofit transformed a 1912 home into a net-positive energy residence with full electrification, enhanced insulation, and solar panels.
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#deepenergyretrofit
#netzero
Our newest case study comes to us from Manitoba's @suncertified.bsky.social . The Full Monty, an envelope-first, #netzero ready #deepretrofit guided by Passive House principles, cut the home's annual energy consumption by 70 per cent.
Read the case study here: buff.ly/UN37Nhu
There’s always a story behind every retrofit in our library, but our latest case study out of Quebec is particularly awesome. In 1965, a barn was converted to a home. Sixty years later, a #deepretrofit transformed it into a high-performance home.
Give it a read here: buff.ly/fo3oPQk
#netzeroready
Another #deepretrofit case study!
The builder wrapped the home in continuous air and thermal barriers using a prairie technique called a chainsaw retrofit. With electrified mechanical and solar, the home's annual consumption dropped from 141 GJ to just 33.
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#deepenergyretrofits
Join Retrofit Canada & ENBIX for an in-person event featuring LEEP's Larsen Truss Case Studies: High-Performance Walls for Renovations.
Date: April 8
Location: Airdrie, Alberta
Register here: buff.ly/kJuTfAA
#EnergyEfficiency #BuildingScience #Retrofit #NetZero #Sustainability #deepretrofit
"What if we've been wrong about the housing crises?"
Homes that Don't Cost the Earth #HDCE
is a UK project that is taking a fresh look at environmentally sustainable solutions to the housing crisis...
#DeepRetrofit
#AffordabilityCrisis
#ClimateCrisis
#FuelPoverty
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This was the first #deepretrofit case study we published way back in 2020. Thanks to our brand new and improved library platform, we were able to add more data, more photos, more technical data and more info about how the owners got it done for all you retrofit enthusiasts. Link: buff.ly/9wPwVQG
Another #deepretrofit case study! Check out how this project got a 130-year-old Montreal duplex with no less than three party walls, three different wall assemblies, a two-floor addition, and a rubble foundation to #netzero ready.
Case Study Link: buff.ly/7yEww6F
#deepenergyretrofits
Register now for our March 24 #deepretrofit webinar: retrofitcanada.com/events/retro...
If you haven’t been, here’s what to expect:
🔍 Lessons from real-world projects
⚒️ A Q&A with hands-on experts
🤓 Nerding out on construction details
#deepenergyretrofits
#greenbuilding
#homebuilders
ICYMI, we just published this case study for a #deepretrofit that reduced this home's annual energy consumption from 203 GJ all the way down to zero. Give it a read.
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#deepretrofits
#netzero
#solarpanels
48 hours to go! Join us for a free 3-course #deepretrofit nosh-up.
Start with a refreshing appetizer of deep retrofit fundamentals, followed by a hearty and nutritious case study from Sun Certified Builders Co-op. Dessert? Tuck into a builder-to-builder Q&A with our expert guests.
Webinar series for Coaction Training CIC Alumni. 8 trainers will talk through 12 projects.
Have you undertaken training with us?
🙏 We have a free offer for our Alumni
🥇 1 CEPH/PHI point available for each live event
🏠 8 of our trainers will talk through 12 of the projects they have worked on
#passivhaus #EnerPHit #deepretrofit
📆 We start on Thursday 27 Feb
✅ 45 min online webinars
Room monitor for a hear showing a temperature of 16.5’C
Heat pump diaries:
Seems some eejit (it was me!) Knocked off the heat pump yesterday evening by accident. It had dropped to 16.5’C by this morning on a night when it was -3’C outside! So the insulation is keeping us fairly toasty anyway.
#DeepRetroFit #Heatpump
Our Christmas tree in the hallway. We still are only living in part of the house after the #DeepRetroFit - soon we will have it all back in use. This year the hallway is getting the works!
#Speirgorm
Holzbau, hemp, earth building #deepretrofit >> ANY concrete palace you can show. (Challenge)
In other news, ambient temperature only dropped one degree in the 12 hours it was off. #NZEB #DeepRetrofit
Exhibition model of a timber frame filled with hempcrete in a workshop.
Do you have a #renovation or #deepretrofit to show?
Here is a suggestion, I think hempcrete is perfect for many old buildings, not exclusively but especially timber frames. Just decide what should be visible, outside, inside or timber completely inside the hemp lime or hemp earth mix.
