How to affordably upgrade the sustainability of existing buildings

Climate Safe Rooms: Using FirstRate5 to Protect Vulnerable Households When whole-home retrofits aren’t feasible, Climate Safe Rooms offer a targeted, affordable way to improve climate resilience—especially for vulnerable occupants. In this technical webinar, you’ll explore how FirstRate5 (FR5) assessments are being used to identify and upgrade specific rooms to maintain safe indoor conditions during extreme heat or cold. Using FR5 room-by-room outputs, practitioners can develop cost-effective, high-impact retrofit strategies that deliver real-world safety outcomes—without needing to upgrade an entire home. This approach, developed in partnership with Geelong Sustainability and first introduced in BDAV News (2016), earned two 2023 Victorian Premier’s Sustainability Awards and is rapidly gaining traction as a scalable solution in retrofit programs.

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Release Date

August, 2025

Duration

54:12

Speaker/s

Tim Adams