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

容纳加拿大人口所需的住房存量的很大一部分已经建成。在过去的五年里，加拿大各地的住房开工数量超过了100万套。但是，由于严重缺乏对可持续建筑设计的关注，通过新建筑处理低影响住房的机会被浪费了。在接下来的十到二十年里，加拿大现有的住房存量(新的和旧的)将需要重大的升级和翻新。迫切需要研究通过翻新的补救行动如何能够将现有的能源和环境效率低下的建筑改造成更可持续的住房。拟议的研究旨在创建、开发和促进低能耗家居设计的新部门，重点是可持续翻新挑战、原则、验证设计和外联。

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.