Apartments,
co-ops and
social housing.
People live here, which changes everything about how the work is scoped. The building cannot be emptied, the board has to approve it, and in most cases the funding decides the scope before the engineering does.
Occupied,
and funded
first.
A commercial retrofit is priced and then funded. A multi-residential retrofit is usually funded and then priced — the programme sets a savings threshold, and the scope is whatever clears it. That puts the modelling at the front of the project rather than the middle, and it has to be a model somebody else's reviewer will accept.
Modelled to the funder's rules
The energy model is the application. It gets built to the programme's method and assumptions, not to ours, so the submission is not sent back.
Work residents can live through
Staging, temporary heat and the order of the trades matter more than the equipment selection in an occupied building.
A number the board can defend
Savings stated with the uncertainty alongside them. A co-operative board is accountable to its members and cannot present a projection as a promise.
Two multi-residential
case studies.
A fully funded deep retrofit
A 92-unit co-operative taken from audit through to a $2.0M CMHC-funded scope: heat pumps, heat pump water heaters, envelope and controls.
Energy reporting for a whole programme
The platform behind FRPO's Certified Rental Building™ Program: benchmarking, an end-use breakdown, retrofit screening and rebate matching, owned and hosted by FRPO.
Thirty minutes, with the engineer who would run the work.
No cost and no obligation. Bring twelve months of utility bills if you have them — that alone is usually enough to say whether a building has a capital problem or a controls problem.