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Mechanical System Design Guidelines for Low Carbon Buildings

Published by City of Toronto under Application Support Material Terms Of Reference

Applies to
designer
Work types
new construction · retrofit
Document date
December 2021
Building types
multi-unit residential · commercial office

The City of Toronto's voluntary guidelines for low carbon and low carbon-ready mechanical system design in new and existing multi-unit residential and commercial office buildings, with the incremental capital costs measured for each archetype. It concentrates on heating, ventilation and air conditioning, setting out how a building is future-proofed for a district energy or ground-source connection, how heating water systems are designed for lower supply temperatures, and what retrofits prepare an existing building, closing with an appendix describing the residential and commercial office archetypes behind the cost tables.

What it covers

  • Executive Summary
  • Capital Costs for Multi-Unit Residential Buildings (MURBs)
  • Capital Costs Commercial Office Buildings
  • Introduction
  • Purpose of the Guidelines
  • Application of the Guidelines
  • Design Guidelines for MURBs
  • Future-Proof for District Energy or Ground-Source Heating
  • Future-Proof for Lower Heating Water Temperatures
  • Retrofits
  • Design Guidelines for Commercial Office Buildings
  • Appendix A: Description of Archetypes
  • Multi-Unit Residential Archetypes
  • Commercial Office Archetypes
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Publisher
City of Toronto
Category
Study requirements
Published under
Application Support Material Terms Of Reference — the municipality's own heading
Alias
Design Guidelines for Low Carbon Thermal Energy-Ready Buildings
Tags
guidelinelow-carbonmechanical-systemsenergydistrict-energy
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