TIME: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Session Abstract:
The masonry buildings of a hundred years ago make up a large part of our urban cores and provide significant heritage, cultural and embodied energy resources. In meeting the challenges of a net-carbon and energy-neutral building stock, replacing or demolishing all our underperforming heritage buildings is neither desirable nor advised given their resilient, robust assembly and adaptability to new uses that have proven their attractiveness over time.
This presentation is intended to dispel confusion and describe the steps one should take when facing a heritage energy retrofit. First principles to manage air leakage and moisture control—the most significant energy, heat loss and deterioration risks to heritage buildings—will be described. Retrofit approaches, as applied to case study examples, will illustrate the concepts and impacts to energy reductions.
This webinar will be available with live closed captioning.
Learning Outcomes:
• Understand the basics and risks of retrofitting old masonry buildings
• Learn the Dos/ Don’ts best practices for moisture control (Deflection, Drainage, Drying)
• Understand three retrofit approaches (maintain existing assembly; interior insulation assembly; ventilated masonry wall retrofit / dynamic buffer zone approach).
• Learn about case study examples demonstrating these approaches as applied to heritage masonry buildings and the impact to energy-use reductions.
About the speaker:
Eric Charron, M.Arch, OAA, CAHP Intern
Eric A. Charron is an architect with Diamond Schmitt Architects with ten years of experience with the conservation, restoration, and retrofit of heritage buildings in Ontario. He is currently project lead of the retrofit and adaptive reuse of the historic Weston Bakery building in Toronto into residential use. His previous experience with Spencer R. Higgins Architect Inc. included the restoration of the Dome of the Saskatchewan Legislature in Regina, as well as historic analysis and retrofits to Queen’s Park in Toronto, among notable projects.
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