Unlocking the potential: Driving holistic performance improvements in multi-unit residential buildings

该综合研究项目旨在释放多单元住宅建筑（MURBs）的全部潜力，以环境和经济可持续的方式提供舒适，健康的住房。通过多伦多大学、卡尔顿大学、不列颠哥伦比亚省住房（BC住房）、国家研究理事会（NRC）、大气基金（TAF）和多伦多社区住房公司（TCH）之间前所未有的合作伙伴关系，我们将开发新的知识和技术，以解决与建造和运营MURBs相关的众多当前性能问题。该项目分为三个相互交织的主题，每个主题的任务都涉及知识和研究优先事项的不同规模的差距：套房级别的居住者体验（主题1），机械系统（主题2）以及建筑形式如何在城市环境中工作并影响城市环境（主题3）。在这些主题中，主题之间的数据收集和分析工作的协同作用将导致我们如何设计和运营MURBs作为一个系统的突破，从而克服建筑设计，控制和城市规划的孤立方法。此外，由于MURB居民历史上是从服务不足的群体（种族化或经济上处于不利地位），这个研究项目提供了一个机会，以解决一些不公平和限制施加在MURB居民的当前状态的艺术，并提供途径，以提高他们的生活质量。该项目的总体研究目标是解决最紧迫的技术挑战和机遇，以大大提高现有MURBs的性能，并为新MURBs的设计和控制制定指导方针，以支持环境和经济的可持续性，同时促进居住者的舒适度和健康。透过项目合作伙伴对建筑设计及发展的直接控制，我们预期此项目的成果将对现有的MURB产生即时影响，并为未来新的MURB绩效设定一个充满希望的方向。

This comprehensive research project is designed to unlock the full potential of multi-unit residential buildings(MURBs) as a means of providing comfortable, healthy housing in an environmentally and economicallysustainable way. Through an unprecedented partnership between the University of Toronto, CarletonUniversity, British Columbia Housing (BC Housing), the National Research Council (NRC), The AtmosphericFund (TAF), and the Toronto Community Housing Corporation (TCH), we will develop new knowledge andtechnologies to address the multitude of current performance issues associated with building and operatingMURBs. This project is organized into three intertwined themes, each with tasks that address the various scales of the gaps in knowledge and research priorities: the occupant experience at the suite-level (Theme 1), the mechanical systems (Theme 2) and how the built form works within and impacts the urban environment (Theme 3). Across these themes, synergies in the data collection and analysis efforts between themes will lead to breakthroughs in how we design and operate MURBs as a system, thereby overcoming the siloed approach to building design, controls, and urban planning. Furthermore, as MURB residents historically are from under-served groups (racialized or economically disadvantaged), this research project provides an opportunity to address some of the inequities and limitations imposed on MURB residents by the current state of the art, and provide pathways to improving their quality of life. The overarching research objectives of the project are to address the most pressing technical challenges and opportunities to greatly improve the performance of existing MURBs and to develop guidelines for the design and control of new MURBs that support environmental and economic sustainability while promoting occupant comfort and health. Through the project partners' direct control over building design and development, we anticipate that the outcomes of this project will have an immediate impact on existing MURBs and set a promising course for new MURB performance in the future.