Articles Tagged with ''retrofitting''

With the push to decarbonize the building sector, there are more opportunities for renovations and retrofits and this area is primed for the uptake in circularity. Here are some key reasons to integrate circular practices into building design and construction.  

SPRI announced the release of the 2025 revision of the RD-1 standard, formally titled ANSI/SPRI RD-1 Performance Standard for Retrofit Drains. 

The National Institute of Building Sciences has extended the deadline to submit speaker abstracts for the annual Building Innovation conference.

The AEC sectors face a pivotal opportunity: retrofitting existing buildings to reduce carbon emissions. Recent advancements in technology have made daylighting as a dominant interior daytime light source a priority in commercial building design, especially in retrofits.

This latest issue is packed with the latest coatings products on the market, and a focus on a new trend in building restoration—deep energy retrofits.

Commercial buildings consumed 18 percent of all energy used in the U.S. in 2022. Architects are fully aware that savings can be made using a variety of different retrofit measures. Too often, however, they cannot financially justify those projects because they can’t reliably forecast the potential savings.

For 2023, Phoenix West in Orange Beach, AL received first-place honors for the commercial roofs category. Techo Tile in Mission Red was used to retrofit the existing storm damaged roof.

In this episode of Enclosure Experts, we speak with Tom Harris of Tom Harris PUR Consulting, about retrofit roofing. Resilient construction is a term being used these days to help define a direction for new construction. We need to build resilient structures. But what role does retrofit roofing play?

Rehabbing buildings with energy conservation in mind can be a massive undertaking, requiring a holistic exterior and interior approach to decrease buildings’ carbon emissions and energy consumption while minimizing disruption to current occupants. A deep energy retrofit is achieved when renovation activities reduce a building’s site energy usage by at least 40 percent.