The province has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to improve health, safety, and resilience against worsening severe weather events while ensuring heating and cooling is affordable. We’re working in partnership with the Alberta Ecotrust Retrofit Accelerator program to highlight the need for deep retrofits to ensure the province’s buildings can withstand these changing conditions.
Healthy home retrofits in Alberta
Research and Analysis
About our partnership
In collaboration with industry experts, practitioners, owners, tenants, utilities and governments, the Pembina Institute is undertaking research and capacity building to support the decarbonization and adaptation needed to ready Alberta’s building stock for climate resiliency. The Alberta Ecotrust Retrofit Accelerator program delivers practical, hands-on support through concierge services including energy coaching, development plans tailored to individual building requirements, support for energy assessments, and guidance along the retrofit process.
Building Resilience for Severe Weather
Our report, Preparing Alberta's Buildings for Severe Weather, highlights the need for deep retrofits to ensure the province’s buildings can withstand changing conditions like rising temperatures, wildfires, and more frequent extreme storms.
Read the reportPutting Canadian's Safety First
Our report, Healthy Buildings in a Changing Climate, underscores the urgent need to retrofit existing buildings to protect Canadians' health and safety as extreme weather events grow in frequency and intensity.
Read the reportIn the news
2025
Avoiding Health Problems with Better Housing
Passive House Accelerator
July 2025
Q&A: How Deep Energy Retrofits Can Unlock Health Care Savings in Alberta
The Energy Mix
June 9, 2025
New report links deep retrofits to lowered healthcare costs for Albertans
HPAC Magazine
June 2, 2025
With more severe weather, report calls for buildings retrofits
Calgary Herald
March 28, 2025
Actions needed to prepare Alberta’s buildings for severe weather: Report
Building
April 9, 2025
Report outlines actions needed to prepare Alberta’s buildings for severe weather
ReNew Canada
March 31, 2025
Report: Deep Retrofits Critical to Protect Alberta from Extreme Weather
Construction Links Network
April 2, 2025
Urgently Needed Retrofit Investments Could Boost Alberta's Economy, Report Suggests
The Energy Mix
January 22, 2025
2024
Healthy buildings report indicates urgent need for cross-sector approach
Building
July 26, 2024
Pembina report advocates for holistic retrofit approach to tackle climate change
Journal of Commerce
July 17, 2024
Healthier, greener buildings needed for warming climate: Pembina Institute
Sustainable Biz
August 6, 2024
Alberta Ecotrust aims to accelerate building retrofit
Taproot Edmonton
October 8, 2024
Pembina Institute and Alberta Ecotrust launch retrofit program
Journal of Commerce
September 27, 2024
New healthy buildings report signals urgent need for a cross-sector approach
Construction Links Network
July 14, 2024
Supporter
The Pembina Institute acknowledges the generous support of the Alberta Ecotrust Foundation.
Contact our Buildings team
Manager, Buildings
Jessica McIlroy
c: 604-992-6462
e: jessicam@pembina.org
Media Contact
Sarah Snowdon (Eastern Time)
c: 416-838-3423
e: sarahs@pembina.org
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