Decarbonizing Buildings Studio: Energy system retrofits at speed and scale

Catalog description

Historical co-evolution of building energy systems and fuels. Classifying existing buildings into typologies that are a prevalent combination of building size, age, fuels, equipment, distribution and zoning controls. Fuels, electricity, furnaces, boilers, heat pumps. Overview of common heat and hot water distribution systems. Case-study based approach to evaluate retrofit options for each typology. Considerations of location, staging upgrades, envelope efficiency, retrofit cost structure, paybacks with a view towards decarbonization