Industry Research Questions Exchange
The Industry Research Questions Exchange offers industry and academia an opportunity to collaborate on key research questions around emissions-neutral buildings in Alberta.
The Industry Research Questions Exchange offers industry and academia an opportunity to collaborate on key research questions around emissions-neutral buildings in Alberta.
To Participate
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Explore the questions database below.
Discover the questions that are open for research, under investigation or completed.
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Is there a question you would like to research?
Collaboration among industry members and researchers can help find solutions and shape the future of emissions-neutral buildings in Alberta.
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Is there a question you would like answered and added to the database?
Industry members, please pose questions that could benefit from research and/or that you might be interested in partnering on with a researcher.
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Have you already published research that addresses any of the questions posted on the database?
Please submit your findings to the resource library and include a note about which question your research addresses.
Questions Database
This is a list of research that the ENBIX team and its supporters have determined would be helpful for the emissions-neutral building industry in Alberta.
To view the full research exchange and question database, complete with all the descriptions and details, click the link here.
| Status | Research Topic | |
|---|---|---|
| open for research | Current Code Compliance – Alignment with Step Code | View Details |
| open for research | Skills Gap Analysis | View Details |
| under investigation | Feasibility and Costing of Heating and DHW Solutions for Residential Deep Energy Retrofits | View Details |
| under investigation | Collecting and communicating hard data that documents how high-performance homes (Passive House, CHBA Net Zero, etc.) performed during the January 2024 extreme cold snap in Alberta | View Details |
| open for research | Emissions-Neutral Buildings Training and Education Gap Analysis | View Details |
| open for research | CIEP Viability Assessment | View Details |
| open for research | Average Alberta CO2 Emissions Models | View Details |
| open for research | Study on Heat Loss Rates for High-Performance Electric Buildings | View Details |
| open for research | Researching Opportunities for Heat Pump Adoption | View Details |
| open for research | Overcoming Barriers to Data Access for Informed Energy Retrofits: A Cross-Jurisdictional Exploration and Pathway Recommendations | View Details |
| open for research | Mitigating Energy Poverty: Investigating Energy Usage in Rental Housing for Deep Energy Retrofits | View Details |
| open for research | Alberta Deep Energy Retrofit Environmental Scan | View Details |
| open for research | Barriers Analysis: New Construction | View Details |
| open for research | Barriers Analysis: Deep Energy Retrofits | View Details |
| open for research | Urban Planning and Asset Management Intersectionality Study | View Details |
| open for research | Deep Energy Retrofit Supply Chain Analysis and Action Plan | View Details |
| open for research | Electrification of Buildings in Alberta: Aligning Building Strategies and Grid Realities | View Details |
| open for research | Evaluating the Investment Requirements and Benefits of Decarbonizing Alberta’s Existing Building Stock | View Details |
| open for research | Developing Methodology for Integrating Benchmarking and Energy Auditing Data to Guide Deep Energy Retrofits and Pathways to Net Zero | View Details |
Are you a researcher interested in sharing your knowledge by joining this initiative?
Thank you to the researchers and institutions already participating in the question exchange:
