TIME: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Fanshawe has made a commitment to decrease the College’s impact on the environment through updates to both physical spaces and academic curriculum. The College has also made a commitment to provide each student with a Signature Innovative Learning Experience—a rich, experiential learning opportunity. Known as SILEx, these opportunities focus on elements including applied research, live client interactions, global projects, multidisciplinary projects and entrepreneurship.
Together, these commitments are in action as faculty and students are working through the summer 2022 semester on an exciting initiative that could have significant local and national reach. “This project checks all the boxes,” says Tom Davis, professor in the Donald J. Smith School of Building Technology and principal investigator on the project.
Kestrel Court is a townhouse complex directly across the street from the main entrance to Fanshawe’s London Campus. These homes are used as student residences and the complex has become the site of an exciting SILEx opportunity. Davis proposed an applied research project, involving students from an estimated 20 programs, that would see these homes undergo a deep-energy retrofit to make them Net Zero Energy Ready—reducing energy use by a minimum of 70 percent.
There is an urgency to renovate existing residential buildings to curb the impact on climate change. Houses are responsible for approximately 20 per cent of carbon emissions, and there are currently 14.5 million houses in Canada that can be renovated. Half of these renovations need to occur in the next eight years yet there is not currently a market-ready solution to address this substantial need. This project will also create a pipeline of Fanshawe students from 20 programs directly into this potential multi-billion-dollar retrofit industry. This creates great paying technical jobs for Fanshawe graduates, all contributing to the fight against climate change.
Learning Objectives:
1. Full understanding of the planetary crisis presented by Climate Change.
2.Application of 5 insulation packages for Deep Energy Retrofit
3. Details related to measurement of building science parameters for 5 assemblies and 4 mechanical packages.
4. Understanding the implications of embedded and operational carbon related to Deep Energy Retrofits.
Speaker(s)
Tom Davis, P.Eng.
Tom Davis is a Professor of Building Technology and the President of Green-Tech Environmental Engineering Ltd. with over thirty five years of experience in: education, research, consulting, real estate development, design, construction and project management for heavy construction projects around the world.
Tom is also a Principle Investigator in Applied Research responsible for all aspects of research design and testing. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario and the United States. Tom is also a LEED Accredited Professional for Building Design and Construction with the Canadian Green Building Council. Tom is also a committed climate leader in the Climate Reality Project founded by Nobel Laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore, The Climate Reality Project is working to catalyze a global solution to the climate crisis by making urgent action a necessity across every level of society.
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