Your Comprehensive Guide
to Deep Decarbonization
Retrofits

Your Comprehensive Guide to Deep Decarbonization
Retrofits

While several roadmaps and toolkits have been published, many of these are designed to apply to all building types, are not specific to a market, and/or are written from an external perspective.

The RLA Field Guide documents our partners’ experience over the past 3+ years and distills our collective learnings into an actionable process, with supporting resources, designed by and for local nonprofit affordable housing providers in the City of Los Angeles.

Field Guide

Deep Decarbonization Retrofit Roadmap

Twelve steps from getting started through ongoing operations & maintenance.

1

Getting Started

 2

Funding Your Project

 3

Reviewing Your Portfolio

 4

Selecting Properties

 5

Engaging Tenants

 6

Developing a Scope of Work

 7

Selecting a Contractor

 8

Financing / Funding

 9

Construction

 10

Conducting QA & Verification

 11

Monitoring Utility Use

 12

Managing O&M

Contributing Partners

This Field Guide was developed and produced by Sustento Initiative, inspired by / drawing from the experience of the Retrofit LA Cohort: East LA Community Corporation (ELACC), Esperanza Community Housing (ECH), and Little Tokyo Service Center (LTSC).

Funders: Center for Community Investment (CCI), Wells Fargo, TECH Clean CA, and the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power.

Introduction & field guide overview →

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