A framework to evaluate sustainable renovation techniques that address the existing energy and environmental inefficient housing stock

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A large portion of the housing stock needed to accommodate the Canadian population has already been built. In the past five years there have been over a million housing starts across Canada. But, because of a significant lack of attention to sustainable building designs this opportunity to deal with low-impact housing through new construction has been squandered. Throughout the next ten to twenty years, the existing Canadian housing stock (new and old) will require significant upgrades and renovations. There is an urgent need to look at how remedial actions through renovation might be able to transform existing energy and environmental inefficient buildings into more sustainable homes. The proposed research aims to create, develop and contribute to a new sector in low-energy home design focused on Sustainable Renovation Challenges, Principles, Validated Designs, and Outreach.