Retrofitting for resilience

This thesis explores the incentives and barriers to retrofit single-family and small multi-family homes in Boston, in response to the city's declared goal of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 while protecting citizens from extreme weather events induced by climate change. Considering small properties do not report their energy consumption, little is known about a sector that accounts for 20% of the city's carbon emissions. The federal, state and local government offer a myriad of incentive programs to improve the energy efficiency of these homes, yet uptake on those opportunities is low and inconsistent with the rate needed to achieve the city's mitigation and adaptation goals. Recent technological advancements enable the study of these buildings from the ground up, enabling urban scale insights from the study of individual buildings' performance.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Nidam, Yael.

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Brent D Ryan.

• Urban Studies and Planning.

Statement dc:rights

• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123960

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123960