Alberta Ecotrust Retrofit Accelerator

A free coaching program to guide your sustainable building upgrades

About

Alberta Ecotrust Retrofit Accelerator offers free coaching services to guide building owners and managers through making sustainable upgrades to their buildings, known as “deep retrofits.” These go beyond standard upgrades and take a whole-building approach to optimizing a building to reduce its emissions, energy consumption and operating costs.

Transform your building with our free coaching program.

Reduce carbon emissions and energy use

Lower building expenses

Improve building performance, comfort and air quality

Streamline maintenance and renewal

Start your retrofit journey

Our one-on-one coaching services are tailored to your unique needs, barriers, budgets and timelines. They help you through the planning, design, and implementation of your deep retrofits.

What's Included:

  • Free day-to-day coaching from project start to finish

  • Free energy benchmarking and high-level assessments

  • Free guidance through financing, funding and grant options

  • Partially funded energy studies and retrofit plans

  • Introductions to our prequalified service providers

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Are You Eligible?

Your building(s) MUST be located in Alberta and meet the program's eligibility criteria to apply for our free coaching services.

Eligible buildings:

  • Multi-unit residential buildings

  • Commercial buildings

  • Municipalities, universities, schools, and hospitals

NOT eligible buildings:

  • Single-family or detached homes

  • Duplexes, fourplexes, row houses or townhouses

  • Industrial buildings

  • Any buildings outside of Alberta

Get started today for free

Learn how to tackle the retrofit projects that will make the biggest impact on your building's performance.

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Program Phases

Phase 1

Phase 2

Phase 3

Phase 4

Phase 5

FAQs

Working together with industry leaders

The program also aims to reduce emissions from buildings on a larger scale to ensure that deep retrofits are accessible for building owners and managers now, and for years to come.

To do this, we are working collaboratively with industry leaders to support the development of Alberta’s sustainable retrofit industry through capacity building, training, peer-to-peer networking, and research. We are also expanding Alberta Ecotrust’s Emissions-Neutral Buildings Information Exchange (ENBIX) to include events, training, and research related to deep energy retrofit topics.

Our Funders

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Our Network

Making sustainable building upgrades more attainable

We are committed to making deep retrofits more attainable and creating an environment where they can become an ordinary part of building management and maintenance for building owners and managers.