The project will address a health and environmental crisis in the FWFN community – a cluster of leukemia in very young community members who spent time in childhood in an area with over a century of industrial development, including pulp and paper, metallurgy, coal-fired power, rail, chemical plants, contaminated dredge, industrial disposal sites, fueling stations, and other industries. The community has noted that children under five who spent time in a residential area adjacent to the industrial lands were most likely to experience this atypically young onset of leukemia. The industrial lands have been subject to Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) paid for by the government and industry as part of comprehensive land claim processes. Despite dozens of ESAs over several decades, FWFN leadership does not have relevant information in a format that is useful for the community to make decisions. They also do not trust the reporting practices of the liable parties who have been obliged by law to finance the ESAs. This project will work in a nest of collaboration with FWFN in a model of integrated knowledge translation – researchers and community learning together

Ecosystem Informatics Inc. (ESI) is a company incorporated in 2019 in the field of environmental

engineering developing patent-pending real-time and mobile environmental measurement tools to overcome the sample collection and location specific measurement limitations. This project will design and develop a novel case for the system to collect environmental measurements while mounted on a vehicle. The main technical challenge in developing the enclosed measurement system is the turbulence associated with the airflow into the system as well as the presence of dust, water vapor and contaminants that are entrained with the airflow into the system. Humber will provide technical leadership in modelling the air flow inside the engineering system and reducing contaminant interference with measurements through design modifications and in-situ testing. The benefits of this project will be transferred to ESI to overcome the limitations of traditional measurement techniques and offer a more accurate and reliable measurement

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Peel Passive House Consulting (PeelPHC) is the most experienced Passive House (PH) consulting firm in Canada, delivering PH consultancy, training and certification services. PeelPHC is interested in developing a partnership with Humber College with the intent to advance the development of PH expertise in Canada and specifically in the GTA. This project involves a semi-detached home in Toronto that will be retrofitted to a 3-unit apartment to the EnerPHit standard (Passive House Institute, 2015). The house has a common design that is representative of many homes across the city. This project seeks to establish a technically and financially feasible model for low carbon residential retrofits that can be replicated at scale. It also serves to increase density without changing the characteristics of the neighbourhood. Both PeelPHC and Humber College will benefit from the knowledge, skills, and experience they develop that will be directly applicable to the emerging low carbon retrofit industry. PeelPHC will be well positioned to support other homeowners and developers in realizing low carbon retrofits. The results of the research project will contribute to the development of a process and published resources that will facilitate the scale up of retrofit projects in Toronto and beyond.

Humber College's involvement will demonstrate their leadership in supporting the necessary transformation the construction industry must undertake to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.