Senior Associate Arne Suraga will speak at the Passive House Canada Conference on May 5 at 2:30 PM EST, alongside Daniel Dicaire, Senior Manager of Conservation and Sustainability at Ottawa Community Housing (OCH). 

In their session, “Comparing High-Performance Building Scenarios for Financing Affordable Housing,” Arne and Daniel will discuss the need to optimize energy performance design, while balancing cost, as OCH prepares to deliver thousands of new affordable housing units over the next five years. 

Too often, immediate capital cost dominates the conversion, with insufficient high performance design scenarios being considered and no value placed on the long term operational cost impacts.

Arne and Dan will highlight how OCH projects like 200 Beausoleil and Gladstone Village are addressing this gap by using the Total Cost of Building Ownership approach, which prioritizes both energy efficiency and operational savings. To demonstrate this, the session will compare five iterations of the same development, each with varying energy performance levels—from baseline code to 55% better than code—incorporating renewable energy solutions to optimize sustainability.

More info and how to register here.