Retrofit Accelerator
Benefits

Deep retrofits provide benefits for social housing providers, apartment and condo owners, and residents.

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Enhance resident comfort
Reduce operating costs
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Free TAF Services

Technical and financial guidance through the deep energy retrofit process.

TAF collaborates with building owners, utilities, governments, residents and stakeholders to minimize project friction and maximize your health, social, environmental, and economic benefits.

PLAN

Facilitate access to funding, financing and grants

Streamline access to public funding

Review and QA of studies and reports

Explore innovative financing structures

Funding application support

Deliver

Plan and coordinate project delivery for building owners

Support project delivery and procurement

Review + QA of design and construction materials

Technical and communications support

Engage residents collaboratively

Measure

Streamline reporting

Measure, monitor, and optimize building performance

Support for commissioning + troubleshooting

Pre + Post Retrofit Surveying

Our Impact

A decade of hands-on experience initiating and supporting deep retrofit projects in the GTHA.

TAF team members understand the challenges building owners face. We're part of a network of Retrofit Accelerators across Canada working together to reduce the technical and financial complexity of deep retrofits.

About TAF
4,719
suites underway or completed in 115 buildings
$180M+
Capital Mobilized
60%
AVERAGE EMISSION REDUCTION

Eligibility

Ready to build positive environmental and health impacts into your capital plan?

Do I qualify

Planning Support

Secure funding and expert support to plan your retrofit.

Seamlessly add decarbonization to your maintenance plan and future-proof your building.

See our Enhanced Reserve Fund Study

Do you offer retrofit products or services?

TAF is a mission-led organization working in the public interest. We're seeking partners with shared values to collaborate and innovate.

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Featured Case Studies

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Home heating and hot water savings from midrise apartment retrofit

In April 2021, TAF joined project partners to retrofit a nine storey 1963 apartment building in Toronto. The objectives were...

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Heat Pumps Add Cooling for Toronto Community Housing Residents

In May of 2019, TAF joined project partners to retrofit a 1987 townhouse complex in Toronto’s east end. We aimed...

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Stepwise apartment retrofit for savings and comfort

In August 2020, TAF’s Retrofit Accelerator team joined project partners to retrofit a 12-storey 1965 apartment building in Mississauga...

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Lessons from a Heat Pump Retrofit at CityHousing Hamilton

TAF collaborated with CityHousing Hamilton to plan and implement a pilot project at a three-storey multi-family residential building with 40...

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Retrofit of affordable seniors’ apartments aims for deep decarbonization

9/2024 - TAF and TCHC's most ambitious building retrofit yet, featuring geothermal heat pumps and overcladding, and targetting an 80% reduction in carbon emissions, is underway at a low-rise seniors’ apartment building in Toronto’s Birchmount Park neighbourhood.

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Demand for prefabricated overcladding is here, supply is catching up

11/2024 - How can we make building retrofits faster, easier, and less expensive? Keith Burrows, Director, Low-Carbon Buildings, takes us on a journey of insulation that goes on the outside of an existing building.

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Extreme heat bylaws: Perspectives from our retrofit services manager

10/2024 - Our latest retrofit diary from Kaitlin Carroll, Retrofit Services Manager, offers practical considerations and explores how thoughtful planning can ensure extreme heat bylaws benefit both building owners and tenants.

The Retrofit Accelerator is made possible through the financial support of:
  • Deep Retrofit Accelerator Initiative, funded by Natural Resources Canada;
  • Green Municipal Fund, financed by the Government of Canada and administered by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities;
  • McConnell Foundation

The Retrofit Accelerator is an evolution of TAF's TowerWise program, circa 2007. We're grateful for financial support for earlier phases of TowerWise from Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Independent Electricity System Operator, ecobee, and Enbridge.