Energy Efficiency
Energy efficiency refers to the practice of utilizing energy resources in a way that minimizes waste and maximizes output, ultimately reducing energy consumption and environmental impact.
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Building for Sustainability Symposium
Brings together diverse stakeholders to learn about building or designing retrofits for minimum climate greenhouse gas emissions and maximum climate resilience, while increasing attainability and affordability in the Bow Valley.
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32nd Annual Emerald Awards
Sponsors the Infrastructure Award, recognizing projects and initiatives that demonstrate environmental advancements in the ways we design, build, and travel.
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Energy Poverty Reduction & Home Upgrades Program
The Energy Poverty Reduction & Home Upgrades Program aims to reduce energy poverty by offering free energy efficiency education and home upgrades to families living in Calgary and Edmonton. This program delivers Alberta’s first program to help homeowners and renters reduce their energy costs through a combination of education and targeted home upgrades. The program will bring energy efficiency upgrades to 200 households experiencing energy poverty across Calgary and Edmonton.
NewsThe Digital Home Energy Label Pilot Project Attracts New Partnership
We had the pleasure of attending the REALTORS® Association of Edmonton’s annual conference & tradeshow this September, along with Alberta Ecotrust Foundation and Lightspark Software Inc., recipients of our 2021 30th Anniversary Legacy Grant.
NewsMaking our homes safer: Researchers work to own cancer by ridding Canadian houses of dangerous radon gas
“An odourless, cancer-causing gas is building up in many Canadian homes. A University of Calgary radon research team, fuelled by renewed funding from the Alberta Real Estate Foundation to the OWN.CANCER campaign, is working to change this — owning cancer through prevention and partnership.”
ResourceA Guide to Installing EV Infrastructure in Alberta’s Multi-Unit Residential Buildings
While residential EV chargers are the most common and convenient option, many Canadians live in multi-unit residential buildings, such as condos and apartments, where there are few if any EV chargers either in the building’s parking area or nearby.
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Legal Characterization of Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) in Alberta
Clarifies whether municipal debt is required to develop and grow PACE programs in Alberta.
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Enhancing Alberta Condominiums & Apartments through Electric Vehicle Charging
The purpose of this initiative is to equip the real estate industry as well as other stakeholders with the information and tools needed to address a growing need in the condominium and apartment building stock for Electric Vehicle (EV) charging. This is a key pathway for making EVs more accessible to Albertans. In a 2022 poll by KPMG, 56% of Albertans shared that their next vehicle purchase within the next 1-5 years will be hybrid or fully electric. Alberta’s current building stock in the condo and apartment category falls very short of being prepared for this demand, both in the chargers currently available to residents and in the owners’ and developers’ plans to provide this infrastructure.
NewsNew Canadian houses found to have much higher radon gas levels than those in Sweden
UCalgary research correlates radon levels to increased lung cancer rates
NewsAlberta Real Estate Foundation Partners with Empower Me to Bring Energy Efficiency Education to Multilingual Homeowners
October 6, 2021 For Immediate Release