Building Renovation Committee

renovating residential buildings

Committee for the Renovation of Historical Quebec City

[ DUEGA ]

Committee on Health and Safety at Work and Buildings

European Committee for Building Technical Equipment

Committee of Experts on Buildings | CAHB [Abbr.]

Smart, by encouraging the use of ICT and modern technologies, including building automation and charging infrastructure for electric vehicles, to ensure buildings operate efficiently; Simple, by streamlining or deleting provisions that have not delivered the expected output; Supportive of building renovation, by strengthening the links between achieving higher renovation rates, funding and energy performance certificates as well as by reinforcing provisions on national long-term building renovation strategies, with a view to decarbonising the building stock by mid-century.

In the case of building renovation itshould result in creating the right market conditions for increasing the rate and level at which buildings are renovated.

Development of a toolbox of measures to ease the renovation of multi-apartment buildings, e.g. through modern heating and cooling equipment (such as heat pumps) and insulation materials and advice on the steps to follow Better cost-sharing to allow both tenants and owners to benefit from the investment spent to renovate old buildings and apartments, or to change their old obsolete heating systems with new efficient ones using renewable ene ...[+++]rgy sources or heating sourced from smart new generation district heating networks Promote proven energy efficiency models for public schools and hospitals to provide authorities with practices on for example how to use energy service companies, energy performance and public procurement contracts or self-consumption solutions in making these buildings more efficient, how to go about energy renovation and installing heating and cooling systems supplied by clean renewable energy sources.

If you look at Macdonald House in London, which we sold recently for $562 million Canadian at the end of March, any proceeds over and above what it would cost to complete the refurbishment of Trafalgar Square's Canada House and the acquisition and retrofit of the building next to that, which we required — and we talked about this in the past in this committee — would return to the fiscal framework.