Shauna Sylvestor

Shauna brings over 35 years of experience leading groups through complex problem-solving and facilitating many initiatives with local governments on housing, energy, and sustainable financing. Currently, through UCL, she is supporting over 240 private, public, and community leaders in a project entitled Keep It Cool: Transitioning 5,000 Low-Rise MURBs in BC to Energy-Efficient Heat Pumps, and supporting a Canadian initiative to secure a nation-building project focused on retrofits. Property managers are increasingly being asked to improve comfort, control costs and prepare assets for lower-carbon heating, but heat-pump retrofits often stall between the mechanical room and the capital plan. This session brings together a panel of experts to examine how operating needs can become investable projects. Drawing on Toronto 2030 District’s Heat Pump Highway and current financing work plus UCL’s Keep it Cool campaign, the discussion will cover equipment-replacement timing, operating data, busi