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TEXT Max Amerongen PHOTOS Courtesy Butterwick Projects There’s a lane in Sundance Housing Co-op that provides a perfect “before” and “after” picture for housing in Canada. On one side are the original townhouses, clad in 44-year-old tan stucco and brown siding. Across from them sit their freshly updated siblings, transformed with colourful new fibre-cement siding, […]

More people are working, learning, socializing and exercising in their homes than ever before, and the cost of energy and the importance of comfort and indoor air quality has become more significant. In addition, Canada has set ambitious greenhouse gas reduction targets that can only be met in the housing sector if residential renovations for…

The BC Retrofit Accelerator will kick-start climate and energy upgrades in hundreds of larger buildings across British Columbia.

David Claus and his family have lived in the same Prince George, BC house for nearly two decades. In 2023, the Claus family started work on a massive retrofi...

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The Reconstruct Initiative is a collaboration of academic researchers and research labs working with governmental, industry and community partners to develop and implement solutions for mass deployment of deep energy retrofits (DERs) for Quebec and Canada.

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