Upcoming events.
Action Accelerator Webinar Series: At the Intersection of the Housing & Climate Crises
Join us for the Action Accelerator Webinar Series.
This edition is designed for stakeholders from the green building and affordable housing sectors to have strategic conversations exploring ways to balance the priorities of housing affordability and accessibility with the need for net-zero renovations and new construction standards. The aim is to ensure that in the necessary urgency of solving one problem, we do not create others.
Watch a recording of the webinar
Hosts:
Lara Ryan, Interim Director of Building to Zero Exchange
Sera Thompson, Manager of Collective Impact and Engagement, HRM
Framing the Issue with:
Charity Carr, Business Development Manager - Affordable Housing and Developers, EfficiencyOne
Kate Greene, Director of Regional and Community Planning, HRM
Jennifer MacIntrye, Manager, Nova Scotia Department of Municipal Affairs & Housing
Project Profile with:
Naryn Davar-Timbre, Director of Business Development, Passive Design Solutions
Roundtable Review and Summary with hosts:
Lara Ryan and Sera Thompson
Falkland Street Passive House Retrofit
Habit Studio, a women-led architecture firm located in Halifax, is undertaking the first Passive House retrofit in Nova Scotia. The project involves the conversion of a two-storey 1850s home into office space for the Habit Studio team.
Retrofitting existing buildings is essential to achieving the provincial target of net-zero emissions by 2050 and Halifax’s decarbonization goals set out in the HalifACT climate action plan. The Falkland demonstration project will improve performance of the building enclosures through insulation, high performance windows and doors and airtightness and will upgrade the mechanical systems with high efficiency ventilation and heat pumps.
This talk will share on the motivations for the project and provide the technical details which are modeled to achieve an 88% reduction in GHGs and heating reduction of 92%.
WEBINAR: Preparing Nova Scotia’s building sector for a net-zero future
Presenter: Lara Ryan, Sustainability Consultant, Lara Ryan Consulting
Join us on November 14th for a webinar introducing the Building to Zero Exchange (BTZx) a new industry collaborative of champions for the innovation policy, business, and regulatory actions necessary to develop Nova Scotia’s net-zero transition. As a Centre of Excellence, BTZx will showcase leadership and inspiring local innovation and grow capacity as we collectively retrofit and create net-zero buildings efficiently and at a large scale.
This webinar will provide context and background of the development of BTZx and outline expected outcomes and ways for industry members to be engaged.
The webinar is hosted in Zoom.