AEE Canada East

Evolution in Smart Building Optimization

Considering the Canadian markets’ focus for carbon emissions, space utilization, asset management and public education we will review how digital technology plays an important part of the overall journey.

Digital technology’s ability to assist with providing dynamic goals and targets, operational efficiencies, the introduction of artificial intelligence for partial or fully autonomous control, space metrics and continuous commissioning is changing the approach to building management.

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Sustainable Financing

In this webinar, Sarah shares her career journey to date and then discusses the link between sustainability and finance. Sarah spoke to her experiences reporting to the CFO at TransLink and as the Executive Director and Chief Climate Investment Officer at HCi3. We learnt about Green Bonds, developing the program, as well as issuing bonds and impact reporting from her experience at TransLink. From her experience at HCi3, Sarah shared more on federal funding and investing in a market with an ESG lens and using returns to invest in local climate projects.

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Numerous factors are influencing fleet managers in the current shift from internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs). These include complying with organizational ESG plans, the increasing variety of EV models available, as well as the shrinking gap in the total cost of ownership (TCO) between ICE vehicles and EVs. But when is the right time to make the switch? Dunsky Energy + Climate Advisors walked us through the importance of a fleet electrification roadmap to optimize your investment and ensure a successful transition. Drawing upon Dunsky’s proprietary fleet electrification model, E-FLEET, they laid out the key components of a winning strategy.

As fleets electrify, fleet managers will be faced with an additional challenge – designing and managing their own vehicle energy systems. Charging infrastructure installed on-site is expected to be the preferred approach to charging for most EV fleets and fleet managers will need to operationalize and optimize these systems. Brendan McEwen walked us through best practices in the deployment of EV charging infrastructure for fleets and the importance of EV energy management systems in reducing the need for expensive facility upgrades.

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Working to Create Inclusive Spaces

This presentation shared knowledge and tools that can help you start to develop or deepen your understanding of diverse populations. Cassie encourages participants to reflect on their own feelings throughout the session and to consider how you can prioritize equity, diversity, and inclusion in your work moving forward.

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The Evolution of our Building Standards for Green Development

J.L. Richards & Associates, and the City of Ottawa explore the ever-evolving building standards landscape. The session explored standards, regulations and influences as they relate to achieving climate goals. Additionally, a deeper dive into the City of Ottawa’s Hight Performance Building Standard was presented.

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Opening Session – Standards, Regulations and Influences (J.L. Richards)

City of Ottawa High Performance Building Standard (City of Ottawa)

The Anatomy of a Low Carbon Economy Innovator

Roderick Costain of RoCo Industries explore the mechanics of clean energy innovation.

From the point where the idea is born, through the ups and downs of crafting a new business, to the point of arrival – implementation applications!

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Applications for Reciprocating Engines as DERs in Ontario

Join the AEE Canada East chapter and Tilo McAlister of T&T Power group as we explore a variety of Distributed Energy Resource projects to better understand how they fit into the broader sustainability and decarbonization conversation.

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Advanced Heat Pump Technologies

The heat pump concept has been around for a while now, but technologies surrounding this concept has been in constant evolution. As decarbonization is taking place, new technologies have been emerging that will help designers and owners achieve their sustainability goals.

This is a brief look at what’s on the market and how it can be used to achieve our decarbonization goals, at different scales.

We were able to present two events in May. The first was our CWEEL kick-off Web Meeting which featured four excellent women’s career paths and insights into their leadership journey. The second event was a technical webinar featuring Wastewater Energy Transfer.

CWEEL Kick-off Web Meeting

What Makes a Leader?

The Evolution of a Career in Energy and Environmental Leadership

For our CWEEL kick-off we welcomed five amazing women to engage in a conversation on the evolution of a career in energy and environmental leadership. This event featured five incredible women in various stages of their careers in energy and environment – from environmentally passionate engineering Student Jana Giles, GHG reduction Consultant Anna Harman, ESG and climate change Senior Manager Afaf Azzouz, energy efficient and low-carbon Research Officer Heike Schreiber and energy consulting President Laurie Wiegand-Jackson.

Wastewater Energy Transfer Webinar

Wastewater Energy Transfer (WET) represents a wide spread and universal opportunity. This presentation helped to educate participants on this opportunity and the challenges associated with it. The Huber Therm-Win® System as well as other WET technologies were be discussed. A brief overview of Noventa’s WET Project at Toronto Western Hospital as a case study was presented.

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Ottawa Community Housing has completed Canada’s first Panelized Net-Zero Deep energy Retrofit.  197-203 Presland, a 1970 2 storey 4 unit block of townhomes, has been retrofitted with a pre-fabricated exterior envelope which has drastically reduced its energy consumption while a mechanical retrofit has replaced natural gas burning equipment with heat pumps and a Heat Recovery ventilator to provide green house gas free heating, cooling and domestic hot water. The southern facing roof has been covered with 35kW of solar panels which generate as much energy as the building consumes annually, making this a net-zero energy and green house gas retrofit.  In this presentation, Dan Dicaire, Manager of conservation and sustainability, will walk through the design and construction of the project as well as the financial and societal implications of these deep energy retrofits.  These deep energy retrofit projects not only address housing and affordability issue, they also stimulate the economy while eliminating green house gas emissions from a historically neglected sector. 

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Cold climate heat pumps are making the move from future tech to modern mainstream. Traditionally, heat pumps were primarily effective at maintaining comfortable temperatures in moderate climates, but in a recent pilot program, Envari demonstrated that cold climate heat pumps can be used in considerably colder conditions and get the heating and cooling job done most days of the year. That’s a game-changing result that bodes well, not just for home heating, but also for future commercial and industrial applications.

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Getting the most out of your condensing heating and heat recovery technologies requires careful integration. In this webinar the notion that catalog engineering leads to lost opportunities.

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Air sampling strategy to improve indoor air quality and minimize operational costs related to ventilation.

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Towards an urban sustainable energy ecosystem. The application of BIPV across all building surfaces. Opportunities and applications.

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Solar air heating. Opportunities to decarbonize building ventilation systems.

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AMPED – the first Carbon Neutral certified hockey rink.

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Armstrong discusses intelligent pumping systems.

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