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Canada's housing crisis and climate change are two of the country's biggest concerns, and a professor at McGill University has come up with an innovative solution to both.
Daniele Malomo's $1.7 million project, which was awarded $1.7 million by Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, aims to retrofit low-rise unreinforced masonry structures using modularly designed timber panels, which will not only add insulating benefits but will also improve their structural capacity, reports the McGill Reporter.
"Reusing under-utilized or vacant existing buildings is the fastest and most effective option available, and these funds from CMHC will help us making it an even more attractive solution," Malomo says in a press release.
"It is also easier to install and remove and can be done while occupants remain in residence."
Preliminary testing has shown that the retrofit can improve the insulating performance of these buildings by 400%a "major improvement that can promote significant reduction in the carbon footprint," Malomo saysand that after-cracking lateral displacement of the buildings has been increased 100 times, "which will contribute to save lives in case of earthquakes or other natural hazards, contributing also to making existing buildings compliant with current codes."
The idea is to use 3,000 vacant buildings in Montreal, a low-to-moderate seismic
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