In this episode, Shawna interviews Lorrie Rand, a certified passive house designer, Co-Founder and Director of Sustainability at Habitat Studio, and Co-Founder and Design Director at ReCover Initiative in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Lorrie shares her extensive experience with sustainable retrofits and updates on the Habit Studio's passive house retrofit project.

They discuss the founding of the ReCover Initiative, which studies deep retrofits and has launched the multimillion-dollar Atlantic Canada Deep Retrofit Accelerator to address social, financial, and technical barriers. The conversation also touches on workforce development, challenges in implementing retrofits at scale, and initiatives for local economic development.

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