The Project Spotlight for Butterwick Projects wouldn’t be complete without due mention to it’s project collaborators and their role in this project.

Collaborators on an GBTN team are sub-consultants or a product/service provider with a strong business connection to the design, construction, and clean technology sector. Collaborators mutually benefit from the business development, learning opportunity and relationships made that continue on to leverage new business after the project is complete.

Butterwick Projects Collaborators include: Retrofit Canada and 3D reconstruction software specialist, Logan Gilmore:

How did you get involved in the SSRIA GBTN with Butterwick Projects?

Retrofit Canada: I’m with both Retrofit Canada and Butterwick Projects. I proposed the project. – Peter Amerongen

Logan Gilmore: I was brought on board by Peter Amerongen, who I started working with when he was connected with a game studio I co-founded because he heard we were using photogrammetry to create game assets.

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What does it mean to you be a project collaborator and what value do you add?

Retrofit Canada: Canada has 8,000,000 single families house that need to cut their emissions to almost zero, one way or the other, in the next 20 years or so. It is past time to start figuring out how to do this. It is a privilege to be part of this amazing team – the first anywhere to develop a panelized solution for retrofitting and renewing existing single family houses. I’ve been designing and building net zero houses for as long as anyone in Canada. The approaches are remarkably similar. – Peter Amerongen

Our organization has shifted priorities since starting this work and is now dedicated entirely to help kick-start the deep energy retrofit industry in Canada. Knowledge dissemination of this type of work is crucial for Climate Action, and our organization brings together leaders in the retrofit space, who can share they’re knowledge with the general public and professionals, through Retrofit Canada. – Daniel Kielback

Logan Gilmore: I’m trying to develop a reliable measurement process for the buildings being retrofitted, so that the panels can be confidently built offsite.

What do you think you will gain from your participation in the project?

Retrofit Canada: The pleasure and relief of seeing a good idea get rolling. – Peter AmerongenMore knowledge of Deep Retrofit techniques and technology. – Daniel Kielback

Logan Gilmore: This project has been a great opportunity to refine the photogrammetry software I’ve been developing, and the building reconstructions were the case studies for an article in a journal article and in my M.Sc. thesis in Computing Science.

What do you hope the greatest project outcome will be?

Retrofit Canada: I hope that we show that, for a subset of existing houses, panelized retrofits are the way to go and that we’ll kick-start a thriving industry. – Peter Amerongen

More contractors in Edmonton and Alberta offering this type of service. More building owners asking for this work for the properties. – Daniel Kielback

Logan Gilmore: Ideally, this project will lay the groundwork for retrofitting many buildings across Canada in order to reduce GHG emissions.

How will you continue to use the experience and learning’s from this project to further reduce GHG emissions in the built environment?

Retrofit Canada: Well, we’ll have about 7,999,000 and change to go..- Peter Amerongen

Retrofit Canada will continue to pursue our mission, vision and objectives to congregate retrofit leaders from all sectors to Retrofit Canada, and reduce Canada’s GHG emissions from the building sector. Working with SSRIA will showcase how beneficial a deep retrofit for a single family home is and can be. – Daniel Kielback

Logan Gilmore: My contribution to this project has established that a drone-based photogrammetric process is sufficiently accurate to reconstruct CAD models for the facades of single-family homes. Moving forward, I’m hoping to develop a process that can reconstruct larger and more complex buildings.